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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	rafael@kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 2/3] irq: Track the interrupt timings
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:38:33 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703232037560.3723@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1703231507260.2304@knanqh.ubzr>

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 
> > +#define IRQ_TIMINGS_SHIFT	5
> > +#define IRQ_TIMINGS_SIZE	(1 << IRQ_TIMINGS_SHIFT)
> > +#define IRQ_TIMINGS_MASK	(IRQ_TIMINGS_SIZE - 1)
> > +
> > +struct irq_timing {
> > +	u32 irq;
> > +	u64 ts;
> > +};
> > +
> > +struct irq_timings {
> > +	struct irq_timing values[IRQ_TIMINGS_SIZE]; /* our circular buffer */
> 
> This is not very space efficient because of alignment restrictions from 
> the u64 in struct irq_timing. 25% of the memory is wasted.
> 
> You could consider having two arrays instead:
> 
> 	u32 irq_values[IRQ_TIMINGS_SIZE];
> 	u64 ts_values[IRQ_TIMINGS_SIZE];

For the penalty of dirtying two cachelines instead of one.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-23 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-23 17:42 [PATCH V8 1/3] irq: Add flags to request_percpu_irq function Daniel Lezcano
2017-03-23 17:42 ` [PATCH V8 2/3] irq: Track the interrupt timings Daniel Lezcano
2017-03-23 18:35   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-23 19:02     ` Daniel Lezcano
2017-03-23 19:06       ` Nicolas Pitre
2017-03-23 19:14   ` Nicolas Pitre
2017-03-23 19:38     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2017-03-23 19:50       ` Nicolas Pitre
2017-03-23 21:17         ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-23 17:42 ` [PATCH V8 3/3] irq: Compute the periodic interval for interrupts Daniel Lezcano
2017-03-23 19:40   ` Nicolas Pitre
2017-03-24 14:14     ` Daniel Lezcano
2017-03-23 18:34 ` [PATCH V8 1/3] irq: Add flags to request_percpu_irq function Vineet Gupta
2017-03-23 18:54 ` Mark Rutland
2017-03-23 19:19   ` Daniel Lezcano
2017-03-27  8:44 ` Andrew Jones

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