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From: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
To: Eddy Tao <taoyuan_eddy@hotmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v8 1/1] net: openvswitch: reduce cpu_used_mask memory
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 12:21:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BB520D08-D1D3-45DB-A3AE-008E8DF48F81@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OS3P286MB229570CCED618B20355D227AF5D59@OS3P286MB2295.JPNP286.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>



On 5 Feb 2023, at 2:35, Eddy Tao 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.
>  Initialization cpu_used_mask right after stats_last_writer.
>
> 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>

The changes look good to me. Hopefully this is the last revision ;)

Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-06 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-05  1:35 Eddy Tao
2023-02-06 11:21 ` Eelco Chaudron [this message]
2023-02-06 11:27   ` [ovs-dev] " Eddy Tao
2023-02-07  6:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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