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Message-ID: <8225536f-8ecb-0678-f630-265652793a42@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:56:05 +0800
From: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: jirislaby@...nel.org, amit@...nel.org, arnd@...db.de,
osandov@...com, shile.zhang@...ux.alibaba.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] tty: hvc: pass DMA capable memory to put_chars()
在 2021/10/14 下午4:41, Greg KH 写道:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 04:34:59PM +0800, Xianting Tian wrote:
>> 在 2021/10/10 下午1:33, Greg KH 写道:
>>> On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 11:45:23PM +0800, Xianting Tian wrote:
>>>> 在 2021/10/9 下午7:58, Greg KH 写道:
>>>>> Did you look at the placement using pahole as to how this structure now
>>>>> looks?
>>>> thanks for all your commnts. for this one, do you mean I need to remove the
>>>> blank line? thanks
>>>>
>>> No, I mean to use the tool 'pahole' to see the structure layout that you
>>> just created and determine if it really is the best way to add these new
>>> fields, especially as you are adding huge buffers with odd alignment.
>> thanks,
>>
>> Based on your comments, I removed 'char outchar', remian the position of
>> 'int outbuf_size' unchanged to keep outbuf_size and lock in the same cache
>> line. Now hvc_struct change as below,
>>
>> struct hvc_struct {
>> struct tty_port port;
>> spinlock_t lock;
>> int index;
>> int do_wakeup;
>> - char *outbuf;
>> int outbuf_size;
>> int n_outbuf;
>> uint32_t vtermno;
>> @@ -48,6 +57,16 @@ struct hvc_struct {
>> struct work_struct tty_resize;
>> struct list_head next;
>> unsigned long flags;
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * the buf is used in hvc console api for putting chars,
>> + * and also used in hvc_poll_put_char() for putting single char.
>> + */
>> + char cons_outbuf[N_OUTBUF] __ALIGNED__;
>> + spinlock_t cons_outbuf_lock;
>> +
>> + /* the buf is used for putting chars to tty */
>> + char outbuf[] __ALIGNED__;
>> };
>>
>> pahole for above hvc_struct as below, is it ok for you? do we need to pack
>> the hole? thanks
>>
>> struct hvc_struct {
>> struct tty_port port; /* 0 352 */
>> /* --- cacheline 5 boundary (320 bytes) was 32 bytes ago --- */
>> spinlock_t lock; /* 352 4 */
>> int index; /* 356 4 */
>> int do_wakeup; /* 360 4 */
>> int outbuf_size; /* 364 4 */
>> int n_outbuf; /* 368 4 */
>> uint32_t vtermno; /* 372 4 */
>> const struct hv_ops * ops; /* 376 8 */
>> /* --- cacheline 6 boundary (384 bytes) --- */
>> int irq_requested; /* 384 4 */
>> int data; /* 388 4 */
>> struct winsize ws; /* 392 8 */
>> struct work_struct tty_resize; /* 400 32 */
>> struct list_head next; /* 432 16 */
>> /* --- cacheline 7 boundary (448 bytes) --- */
>> long unsigned int flags; /* 448 8 */
>>
>> /* XXX 56 bytes hole, try to pack */
>>
>> /* --- cacheline 8 boundary (512 bytes) --- */
>> char cons_outbuf[16]; /* 512 16 */
>> spinlock_t cons_outbuf_lock; /* 528 4 */
>>
>> /* XXX 44 bytes hole, try to pack */
> Why not move the spinlock up above the cons_outbuf? Will that not be a
> bit better?
thanks, I will move it avove cons_outbuf, and send v11 patches soon.
>
> Anyway, this is all fine, and much better than before, thanks.
>
> greg k-h
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