lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2019]   [Dec]   [12]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v1] clk: Convert managed get functions to devm_add_action API
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 05:59:04PM +0100, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> On 12/12/2019 15:47, Robin Murphy wrote:
>
> > On 12/12/2019 1:53 pm, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/12/2019 23:28, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 05:17:28PM +0100, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> What is the rationale for the devm_add_action API?
> >>>
> >>> For one-off and maybe complex unwind actions in drivers that wish to use
> >>> devm API (as mixing devm and manual release is verboten). Also is often
> >>> used when some core subsystem does not provide enough devm APIs.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the insight, Dmitry. Thanks to Robin too.
> >>
> >> This is what I understand so far:
> >>
> >> devm_add_action() is nice because it hides/factorizes the complexity
> >> of the devres API, but it incurs a small storage overhead of one
> >> pointer per call, which makes it unfit for frequently used actions,
> >> such as clk_get.
> >>
> >> Is that correct?
> >>
> >> My question is: why not design the API without the small overhead?
> >
> > Probably because on most architectures, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is at
> > least as big as two pointers anyway, so this "overhead" should mostly be
> > free in practice. Plus the devres API is almost entirely about being
> > able to write simple robust code, rather than absolute efficiency - I
> > mean, struct devres itself is already 5 pointers large at the absolute
> > minimum ;)
>
> (3 pointers: 1 list_head + 1 function pointer)
>
> I'm confused. The first patch was criticized for potentially adding
> an extra pointer for every devm_clk_get (e.g. 800 bytes on a 64-bit
> platform with 100 clocks).
>
> Let's see. On arm64, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is 128.
>
> So basically, a struct devres looks like this on arm64:
>
> list_head.next
> list_head.prev
> dr_release_t
> .
> .
> .
> 104 bytes of padding
> .
> .
> .
> data (flexible array)
> .
> .
> .
> padding up to 256 bytes
>
>
> Basically, on arm64, every struct devres occupies 256 bytes, most of it
> (typically 104 + 112 = 216) wasted as padding.
>
> Hmmm, given how many devm stuff goes on in a modern platform, there
> might be large savings to be had...
>
> Assuming 10,000 calls to devres_alloc_node(), we would be wasting ~2 MB
> of RAM. Not sure it's worth trying to save that?
>
> $ git grep '#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN'
> arch/arc/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN SMP_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN (128)
> arch/c6x/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/csky/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/hexagon/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/m68k/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/microblaze/include/asm/page.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/mips/include/asm/mach-generic/kmalloc.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN 128
> arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ip32/kmalloc.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN 32
> arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ip32/kmalloc.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN 128
> arch/mips/include/asm/mach-tx49xx/kmalloc.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/nds32/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/nios2/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_32.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/sh/include/asm/page.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/unicore32/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> arch/xtensa/include/asm/cache.h:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
>
> Hmmm, how does arch/x86 do it?

As I understand it, x86 tends to be fully coherent, so has no there
is not much requirement for DMA to be aligned to cachelines.

--
RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/
FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line in suburbia: sync at 12.1Mbps down 622kbps up
According to speedtest.net: 11.9Mbps down 500kbps up

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2019-12-12 18:06    [W:0.657 / U:0.020 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site