Re: [RFC RESEND 16/16] nvme-pci: use blk_rq_dma_map() for NVMe SGL

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On 3/5/24 8:51 AM, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 01:18:47PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>> @@ -236,7 +236,9 @@ struct nvme_iod {
>>  	unsigned int dma_len;	/* length of single DMA segment mapping */
>>  	dma_addr_t first_dma;
>>  	dma_addr_t meta_dma;
>> -	struct sg_table sgt;
>> +	struct dma_iova_attrs iova;
>> +	dma_addr_t dma_link_address[128];
>> +	u16 nr_dma_link_address;
>>  	union nvme_descriptor list[NVME_MAX_NR_ALLOCATIONS];
>>  };
> 
> That's quite a lot of space to add to the iod. We preallocate one for
> every request, and there could be millions of them. 

Yeah, that's just a complete non-starter. As far as I can tell, this
ends up adding 1052 bytes per request. Doing the quick math on my test
box (24 drives), that's just a smidge over 3GB of extra memory. That's
not going to work, not even close.

-- 
Jens Axboe





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