From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760714AbcAKWFd (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:05:33 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:41149 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759691AbcAKWFc (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:05:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:05:28 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Juri Lelli Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, viresh.kumar@linaro.org, mturquette@baylibre.com, steve.muckle@linaro.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, morten.rasmussen@arm.com, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 04/19] cpufreq: bring data structures close to their locks Message-ID: <20160111220528.GJ6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1452533760-13787-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com> <1452533760-13787-5-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1452533760-13787-5-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 05:35:45PM +0000, Juri Lelli wrote: > +/** > + * The "cpufreq driver" - the arch- or hardware-dependent low > + * level driver of CPUFreq support, and its spinlock (cpufreq_driver_lock). > + * This lock also protects cpufreq_cpu_data array and cpufreq_policy_list. > + */ > +static struct cpufreq_driver *cpufreq_driver; > +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpufreq_policy *, cpufreq_cpu_data); > static LIST_HEAD(cpufreq_policy_list); > +static DEFINE_RWLOCK(cpufreq_driver_lock); Part of my suggestion was to fold the per-cpu data of cpufreq_cpu_data into struct cpufreq_driver. That way each cpufreq_driver will have its own copy and there'd be only the one global pointer to swizzle. Something very well suited to RCU.