Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] sched/topology: Introduce sched_numa_hop_mask()

Yury Norov
2022-10-25T00:33:31Z

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 01:19:25PM +0100, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> Tariq has pointed out that drivers allocating IRQ vectors would benefit
> from having smarter NUMA-awareness - cpumask_local_spread() only knows
> about the local node and everything outside is in the same bucket.

Can you keep 1st-person references in a cover letter?

> sched_domains_numa_masks is pretty much what we want to hand out (a cpumask
> of CPUs reachable within a given distance budget), introduce
> sched_numa_hop_mask() to export those cpumasks.
>
> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20220728191203.4055-1-tariqt@nvidia.com
> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
> ---
> include/linux/topology.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> kernel/sched/topology.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h
> index 4564faafd0e12..3e91ae6d0ad58 100644
> --- a/include/linux/topology.h
> +++ b/include/linux/topology.h
> @@ -245,5 +245,17 @@ static inline const struct cpumask *cpu_cpu_mask(int cpu)
> return cpumask_of_node(cpu_to_node(cpu));
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +extern const struct cpumask *sched_numa_hop_mask(int node, int hops);
> +#else
> +static inline const struct cpumask *sched_numa_hop_mask(int node, int hops)
> +{
> + if (node == NUMA_NO_NODE && !hops)
> + return cpu_online_mask;
> +
> + return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
> +
>
> #endif /* _LINUX_TOPOLOGY_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> index 8739c2a5a54ea..e3cb8cc375204 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> @@ -2067,6 +2067,37 @@ int sched_numa_find_closest(const struct cpumask *cpus, int cpu)
> return found;
> }
>
> +/**
> + * sched_numa_hop_mask() - Get the cpumask of CPUs at most @hops hops away from
> + * @node
> + * @node: The node to count hops from.
> + * @hops: Include CPUs up to that many hops away. 0 means local node.
> + *
> + * Return: On success, a pointer to a cpumask of CPUs at most @hops away from
> + * @node, an error value otherwise.
> + *
> + * Requires rcu_lock to be held. Returned cpumask is only valid within that
> + * read-side section, copy it if required beyond that.
> + *
> + * Note that not all hops are equal in distance; see sched_init_numa() for how
> + * distances and masks are handled.
> + * Also note that this is a reflection of sched_domains_numa_masks, which may change
> + * during the lifetime of the system (offline nodes are taken out of the masks).
> + */
> +const struct cpumask *sched_numa_hop_mask(unsigned int node, unsigned int hops)
> +{
> + struct cpumask ***masks = rcu_dereference(sched_domains_numa_masks);
> +
> + if (node >= nr_node_ids || hops >= sched_domains_numa_levels)
> + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

Can you dereference rcu things after sanity checks?

> + if (!masks)
> + return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
> +
> + return masks[hops][node];
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_numa_hop_mask);
> +
> #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
>
> static int __sdt_alloc(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)
> --
> 2.31.1