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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Veronika Kabatova <vkabatov@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 1/2] percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 11:50:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001155018.GI4441@mtj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001154842.26896-2-ming.lei@redhat.com>

On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:48:41PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> 'struct percpu_ref' is often embedded into one user structure, and the
> instance is usually referenced in fast path, however actually only
> 'percpu_count_ptr' is needed in fast path.
> 
> So move other fields into one new structure of 'percpu_ref_data', and
> allocate it dynamically via kzalloc(), then memory footprint of
> 'percpu_ref' in fast path is reduced a lot and becomes suitable to put
> into hot cacheline of user structure.
> 
> Tested-by: Veronika Kabatova <vkabatov@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-01 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01 15:48 [PATCH V7 0/2] percpu_ref & block: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path Ming Lei
2020-10-01 15:48 ` [PATCH V7 1/2] percpu_ref: " Ming Lei
2020-10-01 15:50   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2020-10-01 15:48 ` [PATCH V7 2/2] block: move 'q_usage_counter' into front of 'request_queue' Ming Lei
2020-10-06  7:41 ` [PATCH V7 0/2] percpu_ref & block: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path Ming Lei
2020-10-06 13:30 ` Jens Axboe

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