linux/drivers/infiniband/sw
Ming Lei 2b0d3d3e4f percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path
'struct percpu_ref' is often embedded into one user structure, and the
instance is usually referenced in fast path, however actually only
'percpu_count_ptr' is needed in fast path.

So move other fields into one new structure of 'percpu_ref_data', and
allocate it dynamically via kzalloc(), then memory footprint of
'percpu_ref' in fast path is reduced a lot and becomes suitable to put
into hot cacheline of user structure.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Veronika Kabatova <vkabatov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-10-06 07:29:36 -06:00
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rdmavt percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path 2020-10-06 07:29:36 -06:00
rxe treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
siw treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
Makefile rdma/siw: addition to kernel build environment 2019-07-02 17:03:41 -03:00