Re: [PATCH v12 07/14] x86/sgx: Abstract tracking reclaimable pages in LRU

Haitao Huang
2024-04-16T22:48:46Z

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:07:33 -0500, Huang, Kai <kai.huang@intel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2024-04-15 at 20:20 -0700, Haitao Huang wrote:
>> From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>
>>
>> The functions, sgx_{mark,unmark}_page_reclaimable(), manage the tracking
>> of reclaimable EPC pages: sgx_mark_page_reclaimable() adds a newly
>> allocated page into the global LRU list while
>> sgx_unmark_page_reclaimable() does the opposite. Abstract the hard coded
>> global LRU references in these functions to make them reusable when
>> pages are tracked in per-cgroup LRUs.
>>
>> Create a helper, sgx_lru_list(), that returns the LRU that tracks a
>> given
>> EPC page. It simply returns the global LRU now, and will later return
>> the LRU of the cgroup within which the EPC page was allocated. Replace
>> the hard coded global LRU with a call to this helper.
>>
>> Next patches will first get the cgroup reclamation flow ready while
>> keeping pages tracked in the global LRU and reclaimed by ksgxd before we
>> make the switch in the end for sgx_lru_list() to return per-cgroup
>> LRU.
>
> I found the first paragraph hard to read. Provide my version below for
> your reference:
>
> "
> The SGX driver tracks reclaimable EPC pages via
> sgx_mark_page_reclaimable(), which adds the newly allocated page into the
> global LRU list. sgx_unmark_page_reclaimable() does the opposite.
>
> To support SGX EPC cgroup, the SGX driver will need to maintain an LRU
> list for each cgroup, and the new allocated EPC page will need to be
> added
> to the LRU of associated cgroup, but not always the global LRU list.
>
> When sgx_mark_page_reclaimable() is called, the cgroup that the new
> allocated EPC page belongs to is already known, i.e., it has been set to
> the 'struct sgx_epc_page'.
>
> Add a helper, sgx_lru_list(), to return the LRU that the EPC page should
> be/is added to for the given EPC page. Currently it just returns the
> global LRU. Change sgx_{mark|unmark}_page_reclaimable() to use the
> helper
> function to get the LRU from the EPC page instead of referring to the
> global LRU directly.
>
> This allows EPC page being able to be tracked in "per-cgroup" LRU when
> that becomes ready.
> "
>
Thanks. Will use

> Nit:
>
> That being said, is sgx_epc_page_lru() better than sgx_lru_list()?
>

Sure

>>
>> Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>
>> Co-developed-by: Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@linux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@linux.intel.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
>> Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
>> ---
>>
>
> Feel free to add:
>
> Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>

Thanks
Haitao