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Date:      Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:18:35 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CFT/CFR: NUMA policy branch
Message-ID:  <559D778B.5050408@freebsd.org>
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On 7/7/15 11:38 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> There's a phabricator review. It's not up to date, because:
>
> * it broke for a while, and
> * kib requested he be sent patches, not a phabricator review.
>


So Kib is complaining that his feedback is getting lost, but refuses to 
use a review tracker?

MFW:
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-Alfred

>
> -a
>
>
> On 7 July 2015 at 23:13, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 5, 2015, at 19:06, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've done another update. kib@ has been beating me with the clue stick a bit.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/compare/master...erikarn:local/adrian_numa_policy
>>>
>>> * (kib) (numactl.c) fix up sorting of include files
>>> * (kib) (numactl.c) consistent use of values when calling err()
>>> * (kib) (numactl.c) consistently wrap lines at 78 characters, don't
>>> prematurely wrap lines
>>> * (kib) don't use the old-style BSD licence mentioning "regents", use
>>> the updated one
>>> * (kib) (vm_domain.c) don't break out after iterating a few times and
>>> have the API be unpredictable - so now the API will always succeed in
>>> reading a vm_policy
>>>
>>> I've tested the policies (first-touch, fixed-domain, round-robin) and
>>> they all still work as advertised, both on threads and processes.
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate more reviews and some further testing.
>> Please create a dummy pull request or post the code up on Phabricator.
>>
>> - Please put some of the items like policy_to_str and str_to_policy in a library.
>> - Please use that code in the kernel as well for sysctl_vm_default_policy to reduce duplication.
>> - Please note reasoning for why `options MAXMEMDOM=16` in numa(4).
>> - Why are checking for `if (p)` before calling PROC_UNLOCK(p) in sys_numa_getaffinity, but not sys_numa_setaffinity?
>> - sys_numa_setaffinity and sys_numa_getaffinity look similar. Could something be implemented like sysctl(3) for handling getting/setting of affinities all in one shot?
>> - `if (p)` should be `if (p != NULL)`, etc per style(9).
>> - Is there a way that the affinity could be inherited/not inherited across threads, similar to what ktrace -i does? If so, how does one do that?
>> - In vm_domain_rr_selectdomain, should this use atomic(9), i.e. can multiple threads access/mangle the value of td_dom_rr_idx in parallel?
>> - In vm_domain_policy_validate, couldn’t you remove all of the intermediary `return (-1)`’s as long as you put `break;`s in the switch/case statements?
>> - Should vm_domain_policy_cleanup/vm_domain_policy_init be implemented? If so, what should they have in there?
>> - Would it make sense for `struct vm_domain_iterator` to be a queue(9)-like type (just based on the name alone)? If not, what data structure do you anticipate it having, e.g. tree, queue, directed graph, etc?
>> - In vm_domain_iterator_run, vi->n is always decremented after the vi->n <= 0 run is done — why not move that outside the switch-case statement?
>> - Why did you hand roll `vm_domain_iterator_isdone` in `vm_domain_iterator_run` up at the top?
>> - The parameter names for functions/syscalls can be omitted in the declarations.
>> - The change to vm_page.c seems like it could be committed separate from the NUMA changes.
>> - `However without it'll kernel panic below - the code didn’t` -> `However without the following check, the kernel will panic below; the code didn’t`
>> - vm_domain_iterator_run seems like it could use one of the queue(9) data structures.
>> - Why is OPT_TID 1001?
>> - `int error;` should come after `cpuset_t set;` per alignment and style(9).
>> - `atoi` parsing is better handled via strtoll, etc.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -NGie
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