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Date:	Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:04:20 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu_counter: change inaccurate comment

Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 14:42 -0500, Christoph Lameter a écrit :
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> > percpu_counter used to be huge objects, they are not anymore,
> > thanks to fine alloc_percpu() granularity.
> >
> > We now consume 4 bytes per possible cpu.
> 
> Ahh I did not notice that they switched.... Then we may also want the
> following patch to improve performance. It would even be better if we
> could do a this_cpu_add(fbc->counters, amount) there but the 64 bit size
> fo count looks suspiciously like you are expecting overflows beyond ints
> max size.
> 

Yes, this 64bit interface is very strange.

> 
> Subject: percpu_counter: Use this_cpu_ptr instead of per_cpu_ptr
> 
> this_cpu_ptr avoids an array lookup and can use the percpu
> offset of the local cpu directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> 
> ---
>  lib/percpu_counter.c |    6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/lib/percpu_counter.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/lib/percpu_counter.c	2010-10-07 14:36:39.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6/lib/percpu_counter.c	2010-10-07 14:38:43.000000000 -0500
> @@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ void __percpu_counter_add(struct percpu_
>  {
>  	s64 count;
>  	s32 *pcount;
> -	int cpu = get_cpu();
> 
> -	pcount = per_cpu_ptr(fbc->counters, cpu);
> +	preempt_disable();
> +	pcount = this_cpu_ptr(fbc->counters);
>  	count = *pcount + amount;
>  	if (count >= batch || count <= -batch) {
>  		spin_lock(&fbc->lock);
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void __percpu_counter_add(struct percpu_
>  	} else {
>  		*pcount = count;
>  	}
> -	put_cpu();
> +	preempt_enable();
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__percpu_counter_add);
> 

If enclosed by preempt_disable()/preempt_enable(), maybe we could use
__this_cpu_ptr() ?



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