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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Alexander Lobakin' <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>,
	Albert Huang <huangjie.albert@bytedance.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Menglong Dong <imagedong@tencent.com>,
	Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>,
	"Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi" <memxor@gmail.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Antoine Tenart" <atenart@kernel.org>,
	Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>,
	"Frederic Weisbecker" <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] net : rps : supoort a single flow to use rps
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 09:09:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ed297c680f24879aba6f15df7630b96@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220628152956.1407334-1-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>

....
> I'd suggest to use some flags bitfield instead, so it would be way
> more scalable and at the same time have the pre-determined size. Ar
> per several LKML discussions, `bool` may have different size and
> logics depending on architecture and compiler, so when using it not
> on the stack inside a function, but in a structure, it might be not
> easy then to track cacheline layout etc.
> So, maybe
> 
> 	unsigned long rps_flags;
>  #define RPS_SINGLE_FLOW_ENABLE BIT(0)
> 
> or even
> 
> 	DECLARE_BITMAP(rps_flags);
>  #define RPS_SINGLE_FLOW_ENABLE 0

I don't think BITMAPs are a good idea unless you really
need a lot of bits and (probably) locked accesses.

You can use C bitfields - the compiler doesn't (usually)
make too much of a 'pigs breakfast' of them unless you
needs to set/test multiple ones at the same time.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-29  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-28 14:00 Albert Huang
2022-06-28 15:29 ` Alexander Lobakin
2022-06-29  9:09   ` David Laight [this message]
2022-06-28 15:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-06-28 17:15   ` Jakub Kicinski

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