Re: [PATCH -next 0/2] iommu/iova: optimize the iova rcache

[zhangzekun (A)]

Hi all, does anyone has suggestions for these two patches?

在 2023/7/11 10:54, Zhang Zekun 写道:
> The struct of iova rcache has diffcult in dealing with machine with
> lots of cpus, because every cpu has a cpu_rcache and they need to
> exchange iova in a fixed length buffer rcache->depot, this buffer
> can sometimes become a bottle neck of allocating iova from iova_rcache.
> The number of iova_cpu_rcache can grow with the number of cpus in
> iova_rcache, but the size of rcache->depot will not. The deeper of
> rcache->depot can help iova_rcache cache more iovas, and can help
> iova_rcache better dealing with senarios in which drivers allocating
> and free iovas on different cpu cores. We only let the size of rcache->depot
> to grow with the number of cpus which is larger than 32 to avoid potential
> performance decrease on machines which don't have much cpus.
>
> Also, it is unsafe to directly free cpu rcache magazines in free_iova_rcaches,
> add check before freeing it.
>
> Zhang Zekun (2):
>    iommu/iova: Add check for cpu_rcache in free_iova_rcaches
>    iommu/iova: allocate iova_rcache->depot dynamicly
>
>   drivers/iommu/iova.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>   1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)