From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>, mikey <mikey@neuling.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Frederic Barrat <frederic.barrat@fr.ibm.com>,
Huy Nguyen <huyn@mellanox.com>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [2/2] cxl: Fix allocating a minimum of 2 pages for the SPA
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:19:22 +1000 (AEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3rp1Kk4Pgcz9t14@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467202586-13412-2-git-send-email-imunsie@au.ibm.com>
On Wed, 2016-29-06 at 12:16:26 UTC, Ian Munsie wrote:
> From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
>
> The Scheduled Process Area is allocated dynamically with enough pages to
> fit at least as many processes as the AFU descriptor indicated. Since
> the calculation is non-trivial, it does this by calculating how many
> processes could fit in an allocation of a given order, and increasing
> that order until it can fit enough processes or hits the maximum
> supported size.
>
> Currently, it will start this search using a SPA of 2 pages instead of
> 1. This can waste a page of memory if the AFU's maximum number of
> supported processes was small enough to fit in one page.
>
> Fix the algorithm to start the search at 1 page.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2224b6719b09052a9fbf29422a
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-11 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 12:16 [PATCH 1/2] cxl: Fix allowing bogus AFU descriptors with 0 maximum processes Ian Munsie
2016-06-29 12:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] cxl: Fix allocating a minimum of 2 pages for the SPA Ian Munsie
2016-06-29 16:06 ` Frederic Barrat
2016-06-29 23:07 ` Andrew Donnellan
2016-07-11 10:19 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2016-06-29 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] cxl: Fix allowing bogus AFU descriptors with 0 maximum processes Frederic Barrat
2016-06-29 22:35 ` Andrew Donnellan
2016-07-11 10:19 ` [1/2] " Michael Ellerman
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