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Message-ID: <d41c058c-d20f-2e9f-ea2c-0a26bdb5fea3@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 5 Jan 2022 10:30:54 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] net: dsa: merge all bools of struct
 dsa_port into a single u8

On 1/5/22 5:21 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> struct dsa_port has 5 bool members which create quite a number of 7 byte
> holes in the structure layout. By merging them all into bitfields of an
> u8, and placing that u8 in the 1-byte hole after dp->mac and dp->stp_state,
> we can reduce the structure size from 576 bytes to 552 bytes on arm64.
> 
> Before:
> 
> pahole -C dsa_port net/dsa/slave.o
> struct dsa_port {
>         union {
>                 struct net_device * master;              /*     0     8 */
>                 struct net_device * slave;               /*     0     8 */
>         };                                               /*     0     8 */
>         const struct dsa_device_ops  * tag_ops;          /*     8     8 */
>         struct dsa_switch_tree *   dst;                  /*    16     8 */
>         struct sk_buff *           (*rcv)(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *); /*    24     8 */
>         enum {
>                 DSA_PORT_TYPE_UNUSED = 0,
>                 DSA_PORT_TYPE_CPU    = 1,
>                 DSA_PORT_TYPE_DSA    = 2,
>                 DSA_PORT_TYPE_USER   = 3,
>         } type;                                          /*    32     4 */
> 
>         /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 
>         struct dsa_switch *        ds;                   /*    40     8 */
>         unsigned int               index;                /*    48     4 */
> 
>         /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 
>         const char  *              name;                 /*    56     8 */
>         /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
>         struct dsa_port *          cpu_dp;               /*    64     8 */
>         u8                         mac[6];               /*    72     6 */
>         u8                         stp_state;            /*    78     1 */
> 
>         /* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */
> 
>         struct device_node *       dn;                   /*    80     8 */
>         unsigned int               ageing_time;          /*    88     4 */
>         bool                       vlan_filtering;       /*    92     1 */
>         bool                       learning;             /*    93     1 */
> 
>         /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 
>         struct dsa_bridge *        bridge;               /*    96     8 */
>         struct devlink_port        devlink_port;         /*   104   288 */
>         /* --- cacheline 6 boundary (384 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */
>         bool                       devlink_port_setup;   /*   392     1 */
> 
>         /* XXX 7 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 
>         struct phylink *           pl;                   /*   400     8 */
>         struct phylink_config      pl_config;            /*   408    40 */
>         /* --- cacheline 7 boundary (448 bytes) --- */
>         struct net_device *        lag_dev;              /*   448     8 */
>         bool                       lag_tx_enabled;       /*   456     1 */
> 
>         /* XXX 7 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 
>         struct net_device *        hsr_dev;              /*   464     8 */
>         struct list_head           list;                 /*   472    16 */
>         const struct ethtool_ops  * orig_ethtool_ops;    /*   488     8 */
>         const struct dsa_netdevice_ops  * netdev_ops;    /*   496     8 */
>         struct mutex               addr_lists_lock;      /*   504    32 */
>         /* --- cacheline 8 boundary (512 bytes) was 24 bytes ago --- */
>         struct list_head           fdbs;                 /*   536    16 */
>         struct list_head           mdbs;                 /*   552    16 */
>         bool                       setup;                /*   568     1 */
> 
>         /* size: 576, cachelines: 9, members: 30 */
>         /* sum members: 544, holes: 6, sum holes: 25 */
>         /* padding: 7 */
> };
> 
> After:
> 
> pahole -C dsa_port net/dsa/slave.o
> struct dsa_port {
>         union {
>                 struct net_device * master;              /*     0     8 */
>                 struct net_device * slave;               /*     0     8 */
>         };                                               /*     0     8 */
>         const struct dsa_device_ops  * tag_ops;          /*     8     8 */
>         struct dsa_switch_tree *   dst;                  /*    16     8 */
>         struct sk_buff *           (*rcv)(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *); /*    24     8 */
>         enum {
>                 DSA_PORT_TYPE_UNUSED = 0,
>                 DSA_PORT_TYPE_CPU    = 1,
>                 DSA_PORT_TYPE_DSA    = 2,
>                 DSA_PORT_TYPE_USER   = 3,
>         } type;                                          /*    32     4 */
> 
>         /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 
>         struct dsa_switch *        ds;                   /*    40     8 */
>         unsigned int               index;                /*    48     4 */
> 
>         /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 
>         const char  *              name;                 /*    56     8 */
>         /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
>         struct dsa_port *          cpu_dp;               /*    64     8 */
>         u8                         mac[6];               /*    72     6 */
>         u8                         stp_state;            /*    78     1 */
>         u8                         vlan_filtering:1;     /*    79: 0  1 */
>         u8                         learning:1;           /*    79: 1  1 */
>         u8                         lag_tx_enabled:1;     /*    79: 2  1 */
>         u8                         devlink_port_setup:1; /*    79: 3  1 */
>         u8                         setup:1;              /*    79: 4  1 */
> 
>         /* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */
> 
>         struct device_node *       dn;                   /*    80     8 */
>         unsigned int               ageing_time;          /*    88     4 */
> 
>         /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 
>         struct dsa_bridge *        bridge;               /*    96     8 */
>         struct devlink_port        devlink_port;         /*   104   288 */
>         /* --- cacheline 6 boundary (384 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */
>         struct phylink *           pl;                   /*   392     8 */
>         struct phylink_config      pl_config;            /*   400    40 */
>         struct net_device *        lag_dev;              /*   440     8 */
>         /* --- cacheline 7 boundary (448 bytes) --- */
>         struct net_device *        hsr_dev;              /*   448     8 */
>         struct list_head           list;                 /*   456    16 */
>         const struct ethtool_ops  * orig_ethtool_ops;    /*   472     8 */
>         const struct dsa_netdevice_ops  * netdev_ops;    /*   480     8 */
>         struct mutex               addr_lists_lock;      /*   488    32 */
>         /* --- cacheline 8 boundary (512 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */
>         struct list_head           fdbs;                 /*   520    16 */
>         struct list_head           mdbs;                 /*   536    16 */
> 
>         /* size: 552, cachelines: 9, members: 30 */
>         /* sum members: 539, holes: 3, sum holes: 12 */
>         /* sum bitfield members: 5 bits, bit holes: 1, sum bit holes: 3 bits */
>         /* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
> };
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian

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