Re: [PATCH v2] dma-coherent: add support for multi coherent rmems per dev

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Feb 08 2024 - 06:03:04 EST


On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 03:53:37PM +0800, Howard Yen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 11:43 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 02:08:00PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 07:23:00AM +0000, Howard Yen wrote:

..

> > > > @@ -18,15 +18,9 @@ struct dma_coherent_mem {
> > > > unsigned long *bitmap;
> > > > spinlock_t spinlock;
> > > > bool use_dev_dma_pfn_offset;
> > > > + struct list_head node;
> > >
> > > Have you run `pahole`? Here I see wasted bytes for nothing.
> >
> > On top of that one may make container_of() to be no-op, by placing this member
> > to be the first one. But, double check this with bloat-o-meter (that it indeed
> > does better code generation) and on the other hand check if the current first
> > member is not performance critical and having additional pointer arithmetics is
> > okay.
> >
> > > > };
>
> I'm trying to re-org the members as below
>
> from ===>
>
> struct dma_coherent_mem {
> void * virt_base; /* 0 8 */
> dma_addr_t device_base; /* 8 8 */
> unsigned long pfn_base; /* 16 8 */
> int size; /* 24 4 */
>
> /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
>
> unsigned long * bitmap; /* 32 8 */
> spinlock_t spinlock; /* 40 4 */
> bool use_dev_dma_pfn_offset; /* 44 1 */
>
> /* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */
>
> struct list_head node; /* 48 16 */
>
> /* size: 64, cachelines: 1, members: 8 */
> /* sum members: 57, holes: 2, sum holes: 7 */
> };
>
>
> to ===>
>
> struct dma_coherent_mem {
> struct list_head node; /* 0 16 */
> void * virt_base; /* 16 8 */
> dma_addr_t device_base; /* 24 8 */
> unsigned long pfn_base; /* 32 8 */
> int size; /* 40 4 */
> spinlock_t spinlock; /* 44 4 */
> unsigned long * bitmap; /* 48 8 */
> bool use_dev_dma_pfn_offset; /* 56 1 */
>
> /* size: 64, cachelines: 1, members: 8 */
> /* padding: 7 */

Which seems better that above, right?

> };
>
> Looks like there is about 7 bytes padding at the end of the structure.
> Should I add __attribute__((__packed__)) to not add the padding?

No, __packed is about alignment, may give you much worse code generation.
With list_head member first you might get better code from the original,
check it with bloat-o-meter.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko