From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Eddy Tao <taoyuan_eddy@hotmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
dev@openvswitch.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/1] net:openvswitch:reduce cpu_used_mask memory
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 10:00:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y9zNMqVIlW0l3kpF@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OS3P286MB22955AB6FF67B67778343FEDF5D79@OS3P286MB2295.JPNP286.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 09:52:56AM CET, taoyuan_eddy@hotmail.com wrote:
>Use actual CPU number instead of hardcoded value to decide the size
>of 'cpu_used_mask' in 'struct sw_flow'. Below is the reason.
>
>'struct cpumask cpu_used_mask' is embedded in struct sw_flow.
>Its size is hardcoded to CONFIG_NR_CPUS bits, which can be
>8192 by default, it costs memory and slows down ovs_flow_alloc
>
>To address this, redefine cpu_used_mask to pointer
>append cpumask_size() bytes after 'stat' to hold cpumask
>
>cpumask APIs like cpumask_next and cpumask_set_cpu never access
>bits beyond cpu count, cpumask_size() bytes of memory is enough
>
>Signed-off-by: Eddy Tao <taoyuan_eddy@hotmail.com>
Eddy, could you please slow down a bit? Why did you send v5 right
after v4? Could you please always put a changelog to the patch
submitted to contain info about changes in between the
submitted version?
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-03 9:00 UTC|newest]
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2023-02-03 8:52 [PATCH net-next v5 1/1] net:openvswitch:reduce cpu_used_mask memory Eddy Tao
2023-02-03 9:00 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
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2023-02-03 11:55 ` 回复: " Jiri Pirko
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