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

From: Howard Yen
Date: Thu Feb 08 2024 - 09:57:55 EST


On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 6:56 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>

>From the check result with bloat-o-meter, there is about 3.38%
reduction totally from the
original version. Thanks for the suggestion!

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/7 up/down: 0/-60 (-60)
Function old new delta
rmem_dma_device_release 104 100 -4
dma_release_from_dev_coherent 184 180 -4
dma_release_coherent_memory 144 140 -4
dma_mmap_from_dev_coherent 228 224 -4
dma_init_coherent_memory 292 284 -8
rmem_dma_device_init 168 152 -16
dma_declare_coherent_memory 184 164 -20
Total: Before=1776, After=1716, chg -3.38%
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/0 (0)
Data old new delta
Total: Before=0, After=0, chg +0.00%
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/0 (0)
RO Data old new delta
Total: Before=216, After=216, chg +0.00%

For the dev check, in the previous comment, they're in the static
function and are assigned
to ops function pointers, I think the check is required because they
might be invoked from
others.

I'll submit v3 with the members reorg, the return variable naming
changes and if (!dev) return; .


--
Regards,

Howard