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Message-ID: <20240412135023.GS514426@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:50:23 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 11/12] mm: page_frag: add a test module for
 page_frag

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 09:08:48PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> Basing on the lib/objpool.c, change it to something like a
> ptrpool, so that we can utilize that to test the correctness
> and performance of the page_frag.
> 
> The testing is done by ensuring that the fragments allocated
> from a frag_frag_cache instance is pushed into a ptrpool
> instance in a kthread binded to the first cpu, and a kthread
> binded to the current node will pop the fragmemt from the
> ptrpool and call page_frag_alloc_va() to free the fragmemt.
> 
> We may refactor out the common part between objpool and ptrpool
> if this ptrpool thing turns out to be helpful for other place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>

...

> diff --git a/mm/page_frag_test.c b/mm/page_frag_test.c

...

> +/* allocate and initialize percpu slots */
> +static int objpool_init_percpu_slots(struct objpool_head *pool,
> +				     int nr_objs, gfp_t gfp)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < pool->nr_cpus; i++) {
> +		struct objpool_slot *slot;
> +		int size;
> +
> +		/* skip the cpu node which could never be present */
> +		if (!cpu_possible(i))
> +			continue;
> +
> +		size = struct_size(slot, entries, pool->capacity);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * here we allocate percpu-slot & objs together in a single
> +		 * allocation to make it more compact, taking advantage of
> +		 * warm caches and TLB hits. in default vmalloc is used to
> +		 * reduce the pressure of kernel slab system. as we know,
> +		 * mimimal size of vmalloc is one page since vmalloc would

nit: minimal

> +		 * always align the requested size to page size
> +		 */
> +		if (gfp & GFP_ATOMIC)
> +			slot = kmalloc_node(size, gfp, cpu_to_node(i));
> +		else
> +			slot = __vmalloc_node(size, sizeof(void *), gfp,
> +					      cpu_to_node(i),
> +					      __builtin_return_address(0));
> +		if (!slot)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +		memset(slot, 0, size);
> +		pool->cpu_slots[i] = slot;
> +
> +		objpool_init_percpu_slot(pool, slot);
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

...

> +static struct objpool_head ptr_pool;
> +static int nr_objs = 512;
> +static int nr_test = 5120000;
> +static atomic_t nthreads;
> +static struct completion wait;
> +struct page_frag_cache test_frag;

nit: Is test_frag used outside of this file?
     If not, should it be static?

...