From: Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@free.fr>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
linux-clk <linux-clk@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
x86 <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] clk: Convert managed get functions to devm_add_action API
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:59:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a647c20-c2fa-f14c-256d-6516d0ad03b0@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf5b3dee-061e-a476-7219-aa08c2977488@arm.com>
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?
Regards.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-12 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-26 16:13 [PATCH v1] clk: Convert managed get functions to devm_add_action API Marc Gonzalez
2019-11-28 18:56 ` Bjorn Andersson
2019-12-02 1:42 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-12-02 9:25 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-02 13:51 ` Robin Murphy
2019-12-11 16:17 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-11 22:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-12-12 13:53 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-12 14:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-12 14:41 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-12 14:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-12 15:51 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-12 16:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-12 14:47 ` Robin Murphy
2019-12-12 16:59 ` Marc Gonzalez [this message]
2019-12-12 17:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-12 18:15 ` Robin Murphy
2019-12-12 19:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-12-12 21:08 ` Robin Murphy
2019-12-13 0:16 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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