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From: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Frank Rowand" <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
	devicetree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>, Xinwei Hu <huxinwei@huawei.com>,
	Tianhong Ding <dingtianhong@huawei.com>,
	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 10/14] arm64/numa: define numa_distance as array to simplify code
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 18:29:28 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57C16B88.7080500@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160826152915.GH30302@arm.com>



On 2016/8/26 23:29, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 03:44:49PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
>> 1. MAX_NUMNODES is base on CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT, the default value of the
>>    latter is very small now.
>> 2. Suppose the default value of MAX_NUMNODES is enlarged to 64, so the
>>    size of numa_distance is 4K, it's still acceptable if run the Image
>>    on other processors.
>> 3. It will make function __node_distance quicker than before.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/numa.h |  1 -
>>  arch/arm64/mm/numa.c          | 74 +++----------------------------------------
>>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
> 
> I fail to see the advantages of this patch. Do you have some compelling
> performance figures or something?

We can only put numa_distance_cnt on one node, so for the cpus of other nodes to access it should
spend more time. I have not tested how many can be improved yet.

I will try to get some data next week.

> 
> Will
> 
> .
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-27 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-24  7:44 [PATCH v7 00/14] fix some type infos and bugs for arm64/of numa Zhen Lei
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 01/14] of/numa: remove a duplicated pr_debug information Zhen Lei
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 02/14] of/numa: fix a memory@ node can only contains one memory block Zhen Lei
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 03/14] arm64/numa: add nid check for " Zhen Lei
2016-08-26 12:39   ` Will Deacon
2016-08-27  8:02     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 04/14] of/numa: remove a duplicated warning Zhen Lei
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 05/14] arm64/numa: avoid inconsistent information to be printed Zhen Lei
2016-08-26 12:47   ` Will Deacon
2016-08-27  8:54     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2016-08-30 17:51       ` Will Deacon
2016-08-31  2:29         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 06/14] of_numa: Use of_get_next_parent to simplify code Zhen Lei
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 07/14] of_numa: Use pr_fmt() Zhen Lei
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 08/14] arm64: numa: " Zhen Lei
2016-08-26 12:54   ` Will Deacon
2016-08-27  9:14     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 09/14] arm64/numa: support HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA Zhen Lei
2016-08-26 13:28   ` Will Deacon
2016-08-27 10:06     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 10/14] arm64/numa: define numa_distance as array to simplify code Zhen Lei
2016-08-26 15:29   ` Will Deacon
2016-08-27 10:29     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown) [this message]
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 11/14] arm64/numa: support HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES Zhen Lei
2016-08-26 15:43   ` Will Deacon
2016-08-27 11:05     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2016-08-29  3:15       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 12/14] arm64/numa: remove the limitation that cpu0 must bind to node0 Zhen Lei
2016-08-26 15:49   ` Will Deacon
2016-08-29  6:55     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 13/14] of/numa: remove the constraint on the distances of node pairs Zhen Lei
2016-08-24  7:44 ` [PATCH v7 14/14] Documentation: " Zhen Lei
2016-08-26 15:35   ` Will Deacon
2016-08-27 10:44     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2016-08-30 17:55       ` Will Deacon
2016-08-31  2:46         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)

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