Re: Using union-find in BPF verifier (was: Enhance union-find with KUnit tests and optimization improvements)

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 1:09 AM Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2024-10-17 at 15:10 +0800, Shung-Hsi Yu wrote:
> > Michal mentioned lib/union_find.c during a discussion. I think we may
> > have a use for in BPF verifier (kernel/bpf/verifier.c) that could
> > further simplify the code. Eduard (who wrote the code shown below)
> > probably would have a better idea.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 06:19:10AM GMT, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 11:28:27PM +0800, Kuan-Wei Chiu wrote:
> > > > This patch series adds KUnit tests for the union-find implementation
> > > > and optimizes the path compression in the uf_find() function to achieve
> > > > a lower tree height and improved efficiency. Additionally, it modifies
> > > > uf_union() to return a boolean value indicating whether a merge
> > > > occurred, enhancing the process of calculating the number of groups in
> > > > the cgroup cpuset.
> > >
> > > I'm not necessarily against the patchset but this probably is becoming too
> > > much polishing for something which is only used by cpuset in a pretty cold
> > > path. It probably would be a good idea to concentrate on finding more use
> > > cases.
>
> Hi Shung-Hsi,
>
> [...]
>
> > Squinting a bit get_loop_entry() looks quite like uf_find() and
> > update_loop_entry() looks quite link uf_union(). So perhaps we could get
> > a straight-forward conversion here.
>
> I'll reply tomorrow, need to sleep on it.

I don't like the idea.
Let's keep get_loop_entry/update_loop_entry as-is.





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