Merge branch 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of changes for percpu this time around. percpu inherited the
same area allocator from the original pre-virtual-address-mapped
implementation. This was from the time when percpu allocator wasn't
used all that much and the implementation was focused on simplicity,
with the unfortunate computational complexity of O(number of areas
allocated from the chunk) per alloc / free.
With the increase in percpu usage, we're hitting cases where the lack
of scalability is hurting. The most prominent one right now is bpf
perpcu map creation / destruction which may allocate and free a lot of
entries consecutively and it's likely that the problem will become
more prominent in the future.
To address the issue, Dennis replaced the area allocator with hinted
bitmap allocator which is more consistent. While the new allocator
does perform a bit worse in some cases, it outperforms the old
allocator way more than an order of magnitude in other more common
scenarios while staying mostly flat in CPU overhead and completely
flat in memory consumption"
* 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (27 commits)
percpu: update header to contain bitmap allocator explanation.
percpu: update pcpu_find_block_fit to use an iterator
percpu: use metadata blocks to update the chunk contig hint
percpu: update free path to take advantage of contig hints
percpu: update alloc path to only scan if contig hints are broken
percpu: keep track of the best offset for contig hints
percpu: skip chunks if the alloc does not fit in the contig hint
percpu: add first_bit to keep track of the first free in the bitmap
percpu: introduce bitmap metadata blocks
percpu: replace area map allocator with bitmap
percpu: generalize bitmap (un)populated iterators
percpu: increase minimum percpu allocation size and align first regions
percpu: introduce nr_empty_pop_pages to help empty page accounting
percpu: change the number of pages marked in the first_chunk pop bitmap
percpu: combine percpu address checks
percpu: modify base_addr to be region specific
percpu: setup_first_chunk rename schunk/dchunk to chunk
percpu: end chunk area maps page aligned for the populated bitmap
percpu: unify allocation of schunk and dchunk
percpu: setup_first_chunk remove dyn_size and consolidate logic
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