Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] powerpc/pseries: Add a helper for form1 cpu distance

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:39:27PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 08:41:16PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >> This helper is only used with the dispatch trace log collection.
> >> A later patch will add Form2 affinity support and this change helps
> >> in keeping that simpler. Also add a comment explaining we don't expect
> >> the code to be called with FORM0
> >> 
> >> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> >> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
> >
> > What makes it a "relative_distance" rather than just a "distance"?
> 
> I added that to indicate that the function is not returning the actual
> distance but a number indicative of 'near', 'far' etc. (it actually returns
> 1, 2 etc).

Hm... ok.  To me at least it doesn't really convey that meaning, but
then I'm not sure what would.  To be "relative distance" means the
distance relative to some other object, but then all the NUMA
distances are that - the distance of one node relative to another.

> >> ---
> >>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h   |  4 ++--
> >>  arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c                | 10 +++++++++-
> >>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c |  4 ++--
> >>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h
> >> index e4db64c0e184..ac8b5ed79832 100644
> >> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h
> >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h
> >> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static inline int pcibus_to_node(struct pci_bus *bus)
> >>  				 cpu_all_mask :				\
> >>  				 cpumask_of_node(pcibus_to_node(bus)))
> >>  
> >> -extern int cpu_distance(__be32 *cpu1_assoc, __be32 *cpu2_assoc);
> >> +int cpu_relative_distance(__be32 *cpu1_assoc, __be32 *cpu2_assoc);
> >>  extern int __node_distance(int, int);
> >>  #define node_distance(a, b) __node_distance(a, b)
> >>  
> >> @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static inline void sysfs_remove_device_from_node(struct device *dev,
> >>  
> >>  static inline void update_numa_cpu_lookup_table(unsigned int cpu, int node) {}
> >>  
> >> -static inline int cpu_distance(__be32 *cpu1_assoc, __be32 *cpu2_assoc)
> >> +static inline int cpu_relative_distance(__be32 *cpu1_assoc, __be32 *cpu2_assoc)
> >>  {
> >>  	return 0;
> >>  }
> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
> >> index 7b142f79d600..c6293037a103 100644
> >> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
> >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
> >> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static void unmap_cpu_from_node(unsigned long cpu)
> >>  }
> >>  #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU || CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR */
> >>  
> >> -int cpu_distance(__be32 *cpu1_assoc, __be32 *cpu2_assoc)
> >> +static int __cpu_form1_relative_distance(__be32 *cpu1_assoc, __be32 *cpu2_assoc)
> >>  {
> >>  	int dist = 0;
> >>  
> >> @@ -182,6 +182,14 @@ int cpu_distance(__be32 *cpu1_assoc, __be32 *cpu2_assoc)
> >>  	return dist;
> >>  }
> >>  
> >> +int cpu_relative_distance(__be32 *cpu1_assoc, __be32 *cpu2_assoc)
> >> +{
> >> +	/* We should not get called with FORM0 */
> >> +	VM_WARN_ON(affinity_form == FORM0_AFFINITY);
> >> +
> >> +	return __cpu_form1_relative_distance(cpu1_assoc, cpu2_assoc);
> >> +}
> >> +
> >>  /* must hold reference to node during call */
> >>  static const __be32 *of_get_associativity(struct device_node *dev)
> >>  {
> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
> >> index dab356e3ff87..afefbdfe768d 100644
> >> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
> >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
> >> @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static int cpu_relative_dispatch_distance(int last_disp_cpu, int cur_disp_cpu)
> >>  	if (!last_disp_cpu_assoc || !cur_disp_cpu_assoc)
> >>  		return -EIO;
> >>  
> >> -	return cpu_distance(last_disp_cpu_assoc, cur_disp_cpu_assoc);
> >> +	return cpu_relative_distance(last_disp_cpu_assoc, cur_disp_cpu_assoc);
> >>  }
> >>  
> >>  static int cpu_home_node_dispatch_distance(int disp_cpu)
> >> @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static int cpu_home_node_dispatch_distance(int disp_cpu)
> >>  	if (!disp_cpu_assoc || !vcpu_assoc)
> >>  		return -EIO;
> >>  
> >> -	return cpu_distance(disp_cpu_assoc, vcpu_assoc);
> >> +	return cpu_relative_distance(disp_cpu_assoc, vcpu_assoc);
> >>  }
> >>  
> >>  static void update_vcpu_disp_stat(int disp_cpu)
> >
> 

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