Re: [PATCH net 0/3] Revert openvswitch per-CPU storage

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>]

On 2025-06-10 10:03:08 [+0300], Gal Pressman wrote:
> On 10/06/2025 9:43, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > On 2025-06-10 09:26:28 [+0300], Gal Pressman wrote:
> >> This patch series reverts a set of changes that consolidated per-CPU
> >> storage structures in the openvswitch module.
> >>
> >> The original changes were intended to improve performance and reduce
> >> complexity by merging three separate per-CPU structures into one, but
> >> they have changed openvswitch to use static percpu allocations, and
> >> exhausted the reserved chunk on module init.
> >> This results in allocation of struct ovs_pcpu_storage (6488 bytes)
> >> failure on ARM.
> >>
> >> The reverts are applied in reverse order of the original commits.
> > 
> > Is the limited per-CPU storage the only problem? If so I would towards a
> > different solution rather than reverting everything.
> 
> I don't know if this is the only problem, we can't load the module
> starting with these patches.
> 
> I suggest continuing with the reverts as I assume your new solution will
> be net-next material, no?

It is a regression in -rc1 so I would try to fix this on top of -rc1
instead of reverting everything.

Sebastian