linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/11] lib/dlock-list: Make sibling CPUs share the same linked list

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Message-ID: <20231207054259.gpx3cydlb6b7raax@moria.home.lan>
Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2023 00:42:59 -0500
From:   Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
To:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-cachefs@...hat.com, dhowells@...hat.com,
        gfs2@...ts.linux.dev, dm-devel@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] lib/dlock-list: Make sibling CPUs share the same
 linked list

On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 05:05:33PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
> 
> The dlock list needs one list for each of the CPUs available. However,
> for sibling CPUs, they are sharing the L2 and probably L1 caches
> too. As a result, there is not much to gain in term of avoiding
> cacheline contention while increasing the cacheline footprint of the
> L1/L2 caches as separate lists may need to be in the cache.
> 
> This patch makes all the sibling CPUs share the same list, thus
> reducing the number of lists that need to be maintained in each
> dlock list without having any noticeable impact on performance. It
> also improves dlock list iteration performance as fewer lists need
> to be iterated.

Seems Waiman was missed on the CC

it looks like there's some duplication of this with list_lru
functionality - similar list-sharded-by-node idea.

list_lru does the sharding by page_to_nid() of the item, which saves a
pointer and allows just using a list_head in the item. OTOH, it's less
granular than what dlock-list is doing?

I think some attempt ought to be made to factor out the common ideas
hear; perhaps reworking list_lru to use this thing, and I hope someone
has looked at the page_nid idea vs. dlock_list using the current core.

But it's nice and small, and I'd like to use it elsewhere.

Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>