For DRM property blobs created by user mode using drm_property_create_blob(), if the blob value needs to be updated the only way is to destroy the previous blob and create a new one instead. For some of the property blobs, if the size of the blob is more than one page size, kvzalloc() can slow down system as it will first try to allocate physically contiguous memory but upon failure will fall back to non-contiguous (vmalloc) allocation. If the blob property being used is bigger than one page size, in a heavily loaded system, this causes performance issues because some of the blobs are updated on a per-frame basis. To mitigate the performance impact of kvzalloc(), use it only when the size of allocation is less than a page size when creating property blobs Signed-off-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c index dfec479830e4..40c2a3142038 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c @@ -561,7 +561,11 @@ drm_property_create_blob(struct drm_device *dev, size_t length, if (!length || length > INT_MAX - sizeof(struct drm_property_blob)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - blob = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct drm_property_blob)+length, GFP_KERNEL); + if (sizeof(struct drm_property_blob) + length > PAGE_SIZE) + blob = vzalloc(sizeof(struct drm_property_blob)+length); + else + blob = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct drm_property_blob)+length, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!blob) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 2.7.4
