Date:   Fri, 3 Feb 2023 10:00:34 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To:     Eddy Tao <taoyuan_eddy@hotmail.com>
Cc:     netdev@vger.kernel.org, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, dev@openvswitch.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/1] net:openvswitch:reduce cpu_used_mask
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Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 09:52:56AM CET, taoyuan_eddy@hotmail.com wrote:
>Use actual CPU number instead of hardcoded value to decide the size
>of 'cpu_used_mask' in 'struct sw_flow'. Below is the reason.
>
>'struct cpumask cpu_used_mask' is embedded in struct sw_flow.
>Its size is hardcoded to CONFIG_NR_CPUS bits, which can be
>8192 by default, it costs memory and slows down ovs_flow_alloc
>
>To address this, redefine cpu_used_mask to pointer
>append cpumask_size() bytes after 'stat' to hold cpumask
>
>cpumask APIs like cpumask_next and cpumask_set_cpu never access
>bits beyond cpu count, cpumask_size() bytes of memory is enough
>
>Signed-off-by: Eddy Tao <taoyuan_eddy@hotmail.com>

Eddy, could you please slow down a bit? Why did you send v5 right
after v4? Could you please always put a changelog to the patch
submitted to contain info about changes in between the
submitted version?

Thanks!