Re: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated

[Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>]

Ravikiran G Thirumalai a écrit :
> Change the atomic_t sockets_allocated member of struct proto to a 
> per-cpu counter.
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B. Shelar <pravins@calsoftinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Hi Ravikiran

If I correctly read this patch, I think there is a scalability problem.

On a big SMP machine, read_sockets_allocated() is going to be a real killer.

Say we have 128 Opterons CPUS in a box.

You'll need to bring 128 cache lines (plus 8*128 bytes to read the 128 
pointers inside percpu structure)
I think a solution 'a la percpu_counter' is preferable, or even better a 
dedicated per_cpu with a threshold management (see mm/swap.c , function 
vm_acct_memory() to see how vm_committed_space is updated without too bad SMP 
scalability)
Thank you

Eric

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