Message ID | 154818223154.18753.12374915684623789884.stgit@ahduyck-desk1.amr.corp.intel.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | Add NUMA aware async_schedule calls | expand |
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:39:05AM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote: > This patch set provides functionality that will help to improve the > locality of the async_schedule calls used to provide deferred > initialization. > > This patch set originally started out focused on just the one call to > async_schedule_domain in the nvdimm tree that was being used to defer the > device_add call however after doing some digging I realized the scope of > this was much broader than I had originally planned. As such I went > through and reworked the underlying infrastructure down to replacing the > queue_work call itself with a function of my own and opted to try and > provide a NUMA aware solution that would work for a broader audience. > > In addition I have added several tweaks and/or clean-ups to the front of the > patch set. Patches 1 through 3 address a number of issues that actually were > causing the existing async_schedule calls to not show the performance that > they could due to either not scaling on a per device basis, or due to issues > that could result in a potential race. For example, patch 3 addresses the > fact that we were calling async_schedule once per driver instead of once > per device, and as a result we would have still ended up with devices > being probed on a non-local node without addressing this first. > > I have also updated the kernel module used to test async driver probing so > that it can expose the original issue I was attempting to address. > It will fail on a system of asynchronous work either takes longer than it > takes to load a single device and a single driver with a device already > added. It will also fail if the NUMA node that the driver is loaded on does > not match the NUMA node the device is associated with. > > RFC->v1: > Dropped nvdimm patch to submit later. > It relies on code in libnvdimm development tree. > Simplified queue_work_near to just convert node into a CPU. > Split up drivers core and PM core patches. > v1->v2: > Renamed queue_work_near to queue_work_node > Added WARN_ON_ONCE if we use queue_work_node with per-cpu workqueue > v2->v3: > Added Acked-by for queue_work_node patch > Continued rename from _near to _node to be consistent with queue_work_node > Renamed async_schedule_near_domain to async_schedule_node_domain > Renamed async_schedule_near to async_schedule_node > Added kerneldoc for new async_schedule_XXX functions > Updated patch description for patch 4 to include data on potential gains > v3->v4 > Added patch to consolidate use of need_parent_lock > Make asynchronous driver probing explicit about use of drvdata > v4->v5 > Added patch to move async_synchronize_full to address deadlock > Added bit async_probe to act as mutex for probe/remove calls > Added back nvdimm patch as code it relies on is now in Linus's tree > Incorporated review comments on parent & device locking consolidation > Rebased on latest linux-next > v5->v6: > Drop the "This patch" or "This change" from start of patch descriptions. > Drop unnecessary parenthesis in first patch > Use same wording for "selecting a CPU" in comments added in first patch > Added kernel documentation for async_probe member of device > Fixed up comments for async_schedule calls in patch 2 > Moved code related setting async driver out of device.h and into dd.c > Added Reviewed-by for several patches > v6->v7: > Fixed typo which had kernel doc refer to "lock" when I meant "unlock" > Dropped "bool X:1" to "u8 X:1" from patch description > Added async_driver to device_private structure to store driver > Dropped unecessary code shuffle from async_probe patch > Reordered patches to move fixes up to front > Added Reviewed-by for several patches > Updated cover page and patch descriptions throughout the set > v7->v8: > Replaced async_probe value with dead, only apply dead in device_del > Dropped Reviewed-by from patch 2 due to significant changes > Added Reviewed-by for patches reviewed by Luis Chamberlain > v8->v9: > Dropped patch 1 as it was applied, shifted remaining patches by 1 > Added new patch 9 that adds test framework for NUMA and sequential init > Tweaked what is now patch 1, and added Reviewed-by from Dan Williams > v9->v10: > Moved "dead" from device struct to device_private struct > Added Reviewed-by from Rafael to patch 1 > Rebased on latest linux-next Thanks for sticking with this, now all queued up. greg k-h