Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 4 authors, 2023-07-27

Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] sched/topology: add for_each_numa_cpu() macro

From: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Date: 2023-05-02 17:00:57
Also in: linux-rdma, lkml

On 30/04/23 10:18, Yury Norov wrote:
for_each_cpu() is widely used in kernel, and it's beneficial to create
a NUMA-aware version of the macro.

Recently added for_each_numa_hop_mask() works, but switching existing
codebase to it is not an easy process.

This series adds for_each_numa_cpu(), which is designed to be similar to
the for_each_cpu(). It allows to convert existing code to NUMA-aware as
simple as adding a hop iterator variable and passing it inside new macro.
for_each_numa_cpu() takes care of the rest.

At the moment, we have 2 users of NUMA-aware enumerators. One is
Melanox's in-tree driver, and another is Intel's in-review driver:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230216145455.661709-1-pawel.chmielewski@intel.com/ (local)

Both real-life examples follow the same pattern:

        for_each_numa_hop_mask(cpus, prev, node) {
                for_each_cpu_andnot(cpu, cpus, prev) {
                        if (cnt++ == max_num)
                                goto out;
                        do_something(cpu);
                }
                prev = cpus;
        }

With the new macro, it has a more standard look, like this:

        for_each_numa_cpu(cpu, hop, node, cpu_possible_mask) {
                if (cnt++ == max_num)
                        break;
                do_something(cpu);
        }

Straight conversion of existing for_each_cpu() codebase to NUMA-aware
version with for_each_numa_hop_mask() is difficult because it doesn't
take a user-provided cpu mask, and eventually ends up with open-coded
double loop. With for_each_numa_cpu() it shouldn't be a brainteaser.
Consider the NUMA-ignorant example:

        cpumask_t cpus = get_mask();
        int cnt = 0, cpu;

        for_each_cpu(cpu, cpus) {
                if (cnt++ == max_num)
                        break;
                do_something(cpu);
        }

Converting it to NUMA-aware version would be as simple as:

        cpumask_t cpus = get_mask();
        int node = get_node();
        int cnt = 0, hop, cpu;

        for_each_numa_cpu(cpu, hop, node, cpus) {
                if (cnt++ == max_num)
                        break;
                do_something(cpu);
        }

The latter looks more verbose and avoids from open-coding that annoying
double loop. Another advantage is that it works with a 'hop' parameter with
the clear meaning of NUMA distance, and doesn't make people not familiar
to enumerator internals bothering with current and previous masks machinery.
LGTM, I ran the tests on a few NUMA topologies and that all seems to behave
as expected. Thanks for working on this! 

Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
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