linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] percpu_ida: Use _irqsave() instead of local_irq_save() + spin

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Date:   Mon, 7 May 2018 06:47:31 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        Nicholas Bellinger <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...com>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu_ida: Use _irqsave() instead of local_irq_save() +
 spin_lock

On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 08:52:02AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> init and destroy seem to map to sbitmap_queue_init_node and
> sbitmap_queue_free.  percpu_ida_free maps to sbitmap_queue_clear.

Hmm.

void sbitmap_queue_clear(struct sbitmap_queue *sbq, unsigned int nr,
                         unsigned int cpu)
{
        sbitmap_clear_bit_unlock(&sbq->sb, nr);
        sbq_wake_up(sbq);
        if (likely(!sbq->round_robin && nr < sbq->sb.depth))
                *per_cpu_ptr(sbq->alloc_hint, cpu) = nr;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sbitmap_queue_clear);

If we free a tag on a CPU other than the one it's allocated on, that seems
like it's going to guarantee a cacheline pingpong.  Is the alloc_hint
really that valuable?  I'd be tempted to maintain the alloc_hint (if it's
at all valuable) as being just a hint for which word to look at first,
and only update it on allocation, rather than updating it on free.
Then we can drop the 'cpu' argument to sbitmap_queue_clear(), which
would help this conversion because the percpu_ida users don't know what
CPU their tag was allocated on.