Hi,

The 1st patch removes memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path
from 7 words to 2 words, since it is often used in fast path and
embedded in user struct.

The 2nd patch moves .q_usage_counter to 1st cacheline of
'request_queue'.

Simple test on null_blk shows ~2% IOPS boost on one 16cores(two threads
per core) machine, dual socket/numa.

V4:
        - rename percpu_ref_inited as percpu_ref_is_initialized

V3:
        - fix kernel oops on MD
        - add patch for avoiding to use percpu-refcount internal from md
          code
        - pass Red Hat CKI test which is done by Veronika Kabatova

V2:
        - pass 'gfp' to kzalloc() for fixing block/027 failure reported by
        kernel test robot
        - protect percpu_ref_is_zero() with destroying percpu-refcount by
        spin lock  


Ming Lei (3):
  percpu_ref: add percpu_ref_is_initialized for MD
  percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path
  block: move 'q_usage_counter' into front of 'request_queue'

 drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c |   2 +-
 drivers/md/md.c                   |   2 +-
 include/linux/blkdev.h            |   3 +-
 include/linux/percpu-refcount.h   |  46 ++++------
 lib/percpu-refcount.c             | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 5 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)

Cc: Veronika Kabatova <vkaba...@redhat.com>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <s...@grimberg.me>
Cc: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org>
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