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Message-Id: <20091123141914.e320c341.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:19:14 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
Roger Quadros <quadros.roger@...il.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] kfifo: add record handling functions
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:33:08 +0100
Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net> wrote:
> Add kfifo_in_rec() - puts some record data into the FIFO
> Add kfifo_out_rec() - gets some record data from the FIFO
> Add kfifo_from_user_rec() - puts some data from user space into the FIFO
> Add kfifo_to_user_rec() - gets data from the FIFO and write it to user space
> Add kfifo_peek_rec() - gets the size of the next FIFO record field
> Add kfifo_skip_rec() - skip the next fifo out record
> Add kfifo_avail_rec() - determinate the number of bytes available in a record FIFO
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
> include/linux/kfifo.h | 328 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/kfifo.c | 286 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> 2 files changed, 521 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
>
> diff -u -N -r -p kfifo6/include/linux/kfifo.h kfifo7/include/linux/kfifo.h
> --- kfifo6/include/linux/kfifo.h 2009-11-19 20:54:56.275420767 +0100
> +++ kfifo7/include/linux/kfifo.h 2009-11-19 20:55:16.596339811 +0100
> @@ -275,4 +275,332 @@ static inline unsigned int __kfifo_off(s
> return off & (fifo->size - 1);
> }
>
> +/**
> + * __kfifo_peek_n internal helper function for determinate the length of
> + * the next record in the fifo
> + */
> +static inline unsigned int __kfifo_peek_n(struct kfifo *fifo,
> + unsigned int recsize)
> +{
> +#define __KFIFO_GET(fifo, off, shift) \
> + ((fifo)->buffer[__kfifo_off((fifo), (fifo)->out+(off))] << (shift))
> +
> + unsigned int l;
> +
> + l = __KFIFO_GET(fifo, 0, 0);
> +
> + if (--recsize)
> + l |= __KFIFO_GET(fifo, 1, 8);
> +
> + return l;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * __kfifo_poke_n internal helper function for storing the length of
> + * the next record into the fifo
> + */
> +static inline void __kfifo_poke_n(struct kfifo *fifo,
> + unsigned int recsize, unsigned int n)
> +{
> +#define __KFIFO_PUT(fifo, off, val, shift) \
> + ( \
> + (fifo)->buffer[__kfifo_off((fifo), (fifo)->in+(off))] = \
> + (unsigned char)((val) >> (shift)) \
> + )
> +
> + __KFIFO_PUT(fifo, 0, n, 0);
> +
> + if (--recsize)
> + __KFIFO_PUT(fifo, 1, n, 8);
> +}
This will leave the __KFIFO_GET and __KFIFO_PUT macros defined in the
.c files which use this header file. That's messy and undesired, to it
would be better to #undef these macros as early as possible.
but...
> +static inline unsigned int __kfifo_out_rec(struct kfifo *fifo,
> + void *to, unsigned int n, unsigned int recsize,
> + unsigned int *total)
> +{
> + unsigned int l;
> +
> + if (!recsize) {
> + l = n;
> + if (total)
> + *total = l;
> + } else {
> + l = __kfifo_peek_n(fifo, recsize);
> + if (total)
> + *total = l;
> + if (n < l)
> + return l;
> + }
> +
> + return __kfifo_out_n(fifo, to, l, recsize);
> +}
The amount of inlining in this header is pretty wild. These are large
functions! Inlining them will create a large kernel and most likely a
slower one, due to the increased instruction cache footprint.
So please, let's see a "kfifo: uninline everything" patch?
but...
> +/**
> + * kfifo_out_rec - gets some record data from the FIFO
> + * @fifo: the fifo to be used.
> + * @to: where the data must be copied.
> + * @n: the size of the destination buffer.
> + * @recsize: size of record field
> + * @total: pointer where the total number of to copied bytes should stored
> + *
> + * This function copies at most @n bytes from the FIFO to @to and returns the
> + * number of bytes which cannot be copied.
> + * A returned value greater than the @n value means that the record doesn't
> + * fit into the @to buffer.
> + *
> + * Note that with only one concurrent reader and one concurrent
> + * writer, you don't need extra locking to use these functions.
> + */
> +static inline __must_check unsigned int kfifo_out_rec(struct kfifo *fifo,
> + void *to, unsigned int n, unsigned int recsize,
> + unsigned int *total)
> +
> +{
> + if (!__builtin_constant_p(recsize))
> + return __kfifo_out_generic(fifo, to, n, recsize, total);
> + return __kfifo_out_rec(fifo, to, n, recsize, total);
> +}
OK, so I see that some attention has been paid to the text footprint issue.
But how much, and was it successful?
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