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* [PATCH 00/10] percpu: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in core code V1
@ 2013-10-15 17:58 Christoph Lameter
  2013-10-15 17:58 ` Christoph Lameter
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  0 siblings, 11 replies; 25+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Lameter @ 2013-10-15 17:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tejun Heo
  Cc: akpm, linux-arch, Steven Rostedt, linux-kernel, Ingo Molnar,
	Peter Zijlstra

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :


#define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&(var)))



__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.


This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patchset all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.

The patchset includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e.  using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.



Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()


1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y);


2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);


3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, u);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);


4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(this_cpu_ptr(&x), y, sizeof(x));


5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	this_cpu_write(y, x);


6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	this_cpu_inc(y)


These conversions lead to some savings in code size.

Before

size arch/x86/boot/bzImage
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
3996624	      0	      0	3996624	 3cfbd0	arch/x86/boot/bzImage

After

size arch/x86/boot/bzImage
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
3995840	      0	      0	3995840	 3cf8c0	arch/x86/boot/bzImage

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2013-10-15 17:58   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 18:22   ` Jens Axboe
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2013-10-15 17:58   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 19:25   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-15 19:25     ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 08/10] percpu: " Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 17:59   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 09/10] watchdog: " Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 17:59   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 10/10] kernel misc: " Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 17:59   ` Christoph Lameter

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