[PATCH 3/3] nvmet-loop: Avoid preallocating big SGL for data

[Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com>]

nvme_loop_create_io_queues() preallocates a big buffer for the IO SGL based
on SG_CHUNK_SIZE.

Modern DMA engines are often capable of dealing with very big segments so
the SG_CHUNK_SIZE is often too big. SG_CHUNK_SIZE results in a static 4KB
SGL allocation per command.

If a controller has lots of deep queues, preallocation for the sg list can
consume substantial amounts of memory. For nvmet-loop, nr_hw_queues can be
128 and each queue's depth 128. This means the resulting preallocation
for the data SGL is 128*128*4K = 64MB per controller.

Switch to runtime allocation for SGL for lists longer than 2 entries. This
is the approach used by NVMe PCI so it should be reasonable for NVMeOF as
well. Runtime SGL allocation has always been the case for the legacy I/O
path so this is nothing new.

Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/loop.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/loop.c b/drivers/nvme/target/loop.c
index 856eb06..dae31bf 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/loop.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static void nvme_loop_complete_rq(struct request *req)
 {
 	struct nvme_loop_iod *iod = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(req);
 
-	sg_free_table_chained(&iod->sg_table, SG_CHUNK_SIZE);
+	sg_free_table_chained(&iod->sg_table, NVME_INLINE_SG_CNT);
 	nvme_complete_rq(req);
 }
 
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ static blk_status_t nvme_loop_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
 		iod->sg_table.sgl = iod->first_sgl;
 		if (sg_alloc_table_chained(&iod->sg_table,
 				blk_rq_nr_phys_segments(req),
-				iod->sg_table.sgl, SG_CHUNK_SIZE))
+				iod->sg_table.sgl, NVME_INLINE_SG_CNT))
 			return BLK_STS_RESOURCE;
 
 		iod->req.sg = iod->sg_table.sgl;
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static int nvme_loop_configure_admin_queue(struct nvme_loop_ctrl *ctrl)
 	ctrl->admin_tag_set.reserved_tags = 2; /* connect + keep-alive */
 	ctrl->admin_tag_set.numa_node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
 	ctrl->admin_tag_set.cmd_size = sizeof(struct nvme_loop_iod) +
-		SG_CHUNK_SIZE * sizeof(struct scatterlist);
+		NVME_INLINE_SG_CNT * sizeof(struct scatterlist);
 	ctrl->admin_tag_set.driver_data = ctrl;
 	ctrl->admin_tag_set.nr_hw_queues = 1;
 	ctrl->admin_tag_set.timeout = ADMIN_TIMEOUT;
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ static int nvme_loop_create_io_queues(struct nvme_loop_ctrl *ctrl)
 	ctrl->tag_set.numa_node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
 	ctrl->tag_set.flags = BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE;
 	ctrl->tag_set.cmd_size = sizeof(struct nvme_loop_iod) +
-		SG_CHUNK_SIZE * sizeof(struct scatterlist);
+		NVME_INLINE_SG_CNT * sizeof(struct scatterlist);
 	ctrl->tag_set.driver_data = ctrl;
 	ctrl->tag_set.nr_hw_queues = ctrl->ctrl.queue_count - 1;
 	ctrl->tag_set.timeout = NVME_IO_TIMEOUT;
-- 
1.8.3.1


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