On 5/10/24 11:52 PM, Chenliang Li wrote: > Registered buffers are stored and processed in the form of bvec array, > each bvec element typically points to a PAGE_SIZE page but can also work > with hugepages. Specifically, a buffer consisting of a hugepage is > coalesced to use only one hugepage bvec entry during registration. > This coalescing feature helps to save both the space and DMA-mapping time. > > However, currently the coalescing feature doesn't work for multi-hugepage > buffers. For a buffer with several 2M hugepages, we still split it into > thousands of 4K page bvec entries while in fact, we can just use a > handful of hugepage bvecs. > > This patch series enables coalescing registered buffers with more than > one hugepages. It optimizes the DMA-mapping time and saves memory for > these kind of buffers. This series looks much better. Do you have a stand-alone test case for this? We should have that in liburing. Then we can also augment it with edge cases to ensure this is all safe and sound. -- Jens Axboe
