From: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com,
jasowang@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com,
joe.jin@oracle.com, aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/1] vhost scsi: alloc vhost_scsi with kvzalloc() to avoid delay
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:08:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210123080853.4214-1-dongli.zhang@oracle.com> (raw)
The size of 'struct vhost_scsi' is order-10 (~2.3MB). It may take long time
delay by kzalloc() to compact memory pages by retrying multiple times when
there is a lack of high-order pages. As a result, there is latency to
create a VM (with vhost-scsi) or to hotadd vhost-scsi-based storage.
The prior commit 595cb754983d ("vhost/scsi: use vmalloc for order-10
allocation") prefers to fallback only when really needed, while this patch
allocates with kvzalloc() with __GFP_NORETRY implicitly set to avoid
retrying memory pages compact for multiple times.
The __GFP_NORETRY is implicitly set if the size to allocate is more than
PAGE_SZIE and when __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is not explicitly set.
Cc: Aruna Ramakrishna <aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com>
Cc: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
---
Changed since v1:
- To combine kzalloc() and vzalloc() as kvzalloc()
(suggested by Jason Wang)
drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
index 4ce9f00ae10e..5de21ad4bd05 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
@@ -1814,12 +1814,9 @@ static int vhost_scsi_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
struct vhost_virtqueue **vqs;
int r = -ENOMEM, i;
- vs = kzalloc(sizeof(*vs), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
- if (!vs) {
- vs = vzalloc(sizeof(*vs));
- if (!vs)
- goto err_vs;
- }
+ vs = kvzalloc(sizeof(*vs), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!vs)
+ goto err_vs;
vqs = kmalloc_array(VHOST_SCSI_MAX_VQ, sizeof(*vqs), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vqs)
--
2.17.1
next reply other threads:[~2021-01-23 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-23 8:08 Dongli Zhang [this message]
2021-01-23 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] vhost scsi: alloc vhost_scsi with kvzalloc() to avoid delay Dongli Zhang
2021-01-25 3:12 ` Jason Wang
2021-02-01 16:03 ` Joe Jin
2021-02-02 14:56 ` Pankaj Gupta
2021-02-07 3:03 ` [vdpa_sim_net] 79991caf52: net/ipv4/ipmr.c:#RCU-list_traversed_in_non-reader_section kernel test robot
2021-02-07 20:15 ` Dongli Zhang
2021-02-08 16:10 ` Joe Jin
2021-03-18 6:31 ` Oliver Sang
2021-02-08 9:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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