Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] mm: swap: Simplify struct percpu_cluster

["Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>]

Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> writes:

> On 12/03/2024 07:52, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> writes:
>> 
>>> struct percpu_cluster stores the index of cpu's current cluster and the
>>> offset of the next entry that will be allocated for the cpu. These two
>>> pieces of information are redundant because the cluster index is just
>>> (offset / SWAPFILE_CLUSTER). The only reason for explicitly keeping the
>>> cluster index is because the structure used for it also has a flag to
>>> indicate "no cluster". However this data structure also contains a spin
>>> lock, which is never used in this context, as a side effect the code
>>> copies the spinlock_t structure, which is questionable coding practice
>>> in my view.
>>>
>>> So let's clean this up and store only the next offset, and use a
>>> sentinal value (SWAP_NEXT_INVALID) to indicate "no cluster".
>>> SWAP_NEXT_INVALID is chosen to be 0, because 0 will never be seen
>>> legitimately; The first page in the swap file is the swap header, which
>>> is always marked bad to prevent it from being allocated as an entry.
>>> This also prevents the cluster to which it belongs being marked free, so
>>> it will never appear on the free list.
>>>
>>> This change saves 16 bytes per cpu. And given we are shortly going to
>>> extend this mechanism to be per-cpu-AND-per-order, we will end up saving
>>> 16 * 9 = 144 bytes per cpu, which adds up if you have 256 cpus in the
>>> system.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
>> 
>> LGTM, Thanks!
>
> Thanks! What's a guy got to do to get Rb or Ack? :)

Feel free to add

Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>

in the future version.

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Huang, Ying