Re: [driver-core PATCH v5 2/9] async: Add support for queueing on specific NUMA node

From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: len.brown@intel.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org,
	jiangshanlai@gmail.com, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, pavel@ucw.cz,
	zwisler@kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [driver-core PATCH v5 2/9] async: Add support for queueing on specific NUMA node
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:50:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1541551829.196084.206.camel@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <154145230954.29224.13087735653265580553.stgit@ahduyck-desk1.jf.intel.com>

On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 13:11 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> +/**
> + * async_schedule_domain - schedule a function for asynchronous execution within a certain domain
> + * @func: function to execute asynchronously
> + * @data: data pointer to pass to the function
> + * @domain: the domain
> + *
> + * Returns an async_cookie_t that may be used for checkpointing later.
> + * @domain may be used in the async_synchronize_*_domain() functions to
> + * wait within a certain synchronization domain rather than globally.  A
> + * synchronization domain is specified via @domain.
> + * Note: This function may be called from atomic or non-atomic contexts.
> + */

Please leave out "A synchronization domain is specified via @domain." since
that text is redundant due to "@domain: the domain".

> +/**
> + * async_schedule_dev_domain - A device specific version of async_schedule_domain
> + * @func: function to execute asynchronously
> + * @dev: device argument to be passed to function
> + * @domain: the domain
> + *
> + * Returns an async_cookie_t that may be used for checkpointing later.
> + * @dev is used as both the argument for the function and to provide NUMA
> + * context for where to run the function. By doing this we can try to
> + * provide for the best possible outcome by operating on the device on the
> + * CPUs closest to the device.
> + * @domain may be used in the async_synchronize_*_domain() functions to
> + * wait within a certain synchronization domain rather than globally.  A
> + * synchronization domain is specified via @domain.
> + * Note: This function may be called from atomic or non-atomic contexts.
> + */

Same comment here: I think "A synchronization domain is specified via @domain."
is redundant.

> +/**
> + * async_schedule_node_domain - NUMA specific version of async_schedule_domain
> + * @func: function to execute asynchronously
> + * @data: data pointer to pass to the function
> + * @node: NUMA node that we want to schedule this on or close to
> + * @domain: the domain
> + *
> + * Returns an async_cookie_t that may be used for checkpointing later.
> + * @domain may be used in the async_synchronize_*_domain() functions to
> + * wait within a certain synchronization domain rather than globally.  A
> + * synchronization domain is specified via @domain.  Note: This function
> + * may be called from atomic or non-atomic contexts.
> + *
> + * The node requested will be honored on a best effort basis. If the node
> + * has no CPUs associated with it then the work is distributed among all
> + * available CPUs.
> + */

Same comment here: I think that also in the above "A synchronization domain is
specified via @domain." is redundant.

Otherwise this patch looks fine to me.

Bart.

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