From: Leon Romanovsky leonro@nvidia.com
Changelog: v4: * Fixed formatting in first patch. * Added fix (clear tmp_netnts) in first patch to fix i915 failure. * Added test patches v3: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200922083958.2150803-1-leon@kernel.org/ * Squashed Christopher's suggestion to avoid introduced new API, but extend existing one. v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200916140726.839377-1-leon@kernel.org * Fixed indentations and comments * Deleted sg_alloc_next() * Squashed lib/scatterlist patches into one v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200910134259.1304543-1-leon@kernel.org * Changed _sg_chain to be __sg_chain * Added dependency on ARCH_NO_SG_CHAIN * Removed struct sg_append v0: * https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200903121853.1145976-1-leon@kernel.org
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From Maor:
This series extends __sg_alloc_table_from_pages to allow chaining of new pages to already initialized SG table.
This allows drivers to utilize the optimization of merging contiguous pages without a need to pre allocate all the pages and hold them in a very large temporary buffer prior to the call to SG table initialization.
The second patch changes the Infiniband driver to use the new API. It removes duplicate functionality from the code and benefits the optimization of allocating dynamic SG table from pages.
In huge pages system of 2MB page size, without this change, the SG table would contain x512 SG entries. E.g. for 100GB memory registration:
Number of entries Size Before 26214400 600.0MB After 51200 1.2MB
Thanks
Maor Gottlieb (2): lib/scatterlist: Add support in dynamic allocation of SG table from pages RDMA/umem: Move to allocate SG table from pages
Tvrtko Ursulin (2): tools/testing/scatterlist: Rejuvenate bit-rotten test tools/testing/scatterlist: Show errors in human readable form
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_userptr.c | 12 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ttm_buffer.c | 15 +- drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 92 ++--------- include/linux/scatterlist.h | 43 +++--- lib/scatterlist.c | 160 +++++++++++++++----- lib/sg_pool.c | 3 +- tools/testing/scatterlist/Makefile | 3 +- tools/testing/scatterlist/linux/mm.h | 35 +++++ tools/testing/scatterlist/main.c | 53 +++++-- 9 files changed, 248 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)
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