Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] mm: swap: Simplify struct percpu_cluster

Ryan Roberts
2024-03-12T08:51:26Z

On 12/03/2024 07:52, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> writes:
>
>> struct percpu_cluster stores the index of cpu's current cluster and the
>> offset of the next entry that will be allocated for the cpu. These two
>> pieces of information are redundant because the cluster index is just
>> (offset / SWAPFILE_CLUSTER). The only reason for explicitly keeping the
>> cluster index is because the structure used for it also has a flag to
>> indicate "no cluster". However this data structure also contains a spin
>> lock, which is never used in this context, as a side effect the code
>> copies the spinlock_t structure, which is questionable coding practice
>> in my view.
>>
>> So let's clean this up and store only the next offset, and use a
>> sentinal value (SWAP_NEXT_INVALID) to indicate "no cluster".
>> SWAP_NEXT_INVALID is chosen to be 0, because 0 will never be seen
>> legitimately; The first page in the swap file is the swap header, which
>> is always marked bad to prevent it from being allocated as an entry.
>> This also prevents the cluster to which it belongs being marked free, so
>> it will never appear on the free list.
>>
>> This change saves 16 bytes per cpu. And given we are shortly going to
>> extend this mechanism to be per-cpu-AND-per-order, we will end up saving
>> 16 * 9 = 144 bytes per cpu, which adds up if you have 256 cpus in the
>> system.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
>
> LGTM, Thanks!

Thanks! What's a guy got to do to get Rb or Ack? :)

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> Best Regards,
> Huang, Ying
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