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When ICM chunk is freed, it might still be accessed by HW until we do sync with HW. This sync is expensive operation, so we don't do it often. Instead, when the chunk is freed, it is moved to the buddy's "hot memory" list. Once sync is done, we traverse the hot list and finally free all the chunks. It appears that traversing a long list takes unusually long time due to cache misses on many entries, which causes a big "hiccup" during rule insertion. This patch deals with this issue the following way: - Move hot chunks list from buddy to pool, so that the pool will keep track of all its hot memory. - Replace the list with pre-allocated array on the memory pool struct, and store only the information that is needed to later free this chunk in its buddy allocator. This cost additional memory for the array that is dynamically allocated, but it allows not to save long list of hot chunks, so at peak times it actually saves memory due to the fact that each array entry is much smaller than the chunk struct. This way an overhead of traversing the long list is virtually removed: the loop of freeing hot chunks takes ~27 msec instead of ~70 msec, where most of it are the actual freeing activities. Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Vesker <valex@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.