From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
To: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@gmail.com>
Cc: hch@lst.de, robin.murphy@arm.com, m.szyprowski@samsung.com,
vdumpa@nvidia.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] dma-contiguous: Use fallback alloc_pages for single pages
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 09:16:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190524161618.GB23100@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190524040633.16854-3-nicoleotsuka@gmail.com>
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 09:06:33PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> The addresses within a single page are always contiguous, so it's
> not so necessary to always allocate one single page from CMA area.
> Since the CMA area has a limited predefined size of space, it may
> run out of space in heavy use cases, where there might be quite a
> lot CMA pages being allocated for single pages.
>
> However, there is also a concern that a device might care where a
> page comes from -- it might expect the page from CMA area and act
> differently if the page doesn't.
How does a device know, after this call, if a CMA area was used? From the
patches I figured a device should not care.
>
> This patch tries to use the fallback alloc_pages path, instead of
> one-page size allocations from the global CMA area in case that a
> device does not have its own CMA area. This'd save resources from
> the CMA global area for more CMA allocations, and also reduce CMA
> fragmentations resulted from trivial allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@gmail.com>
> ---
> kernel/dma/contiguous.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/contiguous.c b/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
> index 21f39a6cb04f..6914b92d5c88 100644
> --- a/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
> +++ b/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
> @@ -223,14 +223,23 @@ bool dma_release_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, struct page *pages,
> * This function allocates contiguous memory buffer for specified device. It
> * first tries to use device specific contiguous memory area if available or
> * the default global one, then tries a fallback allocation of normal pages.
> + *
> + * Note that it byapss one-page size of allocations from the global area as
> + * the addresses within one page are always contiguous, so there is no need
> + * to waste CMA pages for that kind; it also helps reduce fragmentations.
> */
> struct page *dma_alloc_contiguous(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> int node = dev ? dev_to_node(dev) : NUMA_NO_NODE;
> size_t count = PAGE_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> size_t align = get_order(PAGE_ALIGN(size));
> - struct cma *cma = dev_get_cma_area(dev);
> struct page *page = NULL;
> + struct cma *cma = NULL;
> +
> + if (dev && dev->cma_area)
> + cma = dev->cma_area;
> + else if (count > 1)
> + cma = dma_contiguous_default_area;
Doesn't dev_get_dma_area() already do this?
Ira
>
> /* CMA can be used only in the context which permits sleeping */
> if (cma && gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp)) {
> --
> 2.17.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-24 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-24 4:06 [PATCH v3 0/2] Optimize dma_*_from_contiguous calls Nicolin Chen
2019-05-24 4:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] dma-contiguous: Abstract dma_{alloc,free}_contiguous() Nicolin Chen
2019-05-29 18:35 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-05-29 22:48 ` Nicolin Chen
2019-07-25 16:06 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2019-07-25 16:50 ` Nicolin Chen
2019-07-25 17:31 ` Dafna Hirschfeld
2019-07-25 23:42 ` Nicolin Chen
2019-05-24 4:06 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] dma-contiguous: Use fallback alloc_pages for single pages Nicolin Chen
2019-05-24 16:16 ` Ira Weiny [this message]
2019-05-27 10:55 ` Nicolin Chen
2019-05-24 20:03 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] Optimize dma_*_from_contiguous calls dann frazier
2019-05-28 6:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-29 23:06 ` Nicolin Chen
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