On 11/11/2015 03:06 AM, Matias Bjørling wrote:
Add support for registering as a LightNVM device. This allows us to
evaluate the performance of the LightNVM library.
In /drivers/Makefile, LightNVM is moved above block device drivers
to make sure that the LightNVM media managers have been initialized
before drivers under /drivers/block are initialized.
Generally looks ok. One question:
+static void *null_lnvm_create_dma_pool(struct request_queue *q, char *name)
+{
+ mempool_t *virtmem_pool;
+
+ ppa_cache = kmem_cache_create(name, PAGE_SIZE, 0, 0, NULL);
+ if (!ppa_cache) {
+ pr_err("null_nvm: Unable to create kmem cache\n");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ virtmem_pool = mempool_create_slab_pool(64, ppa_cache);
+ if (!virtmem_pool) {
+ pr_err("null_nvm: Unable to create virtual memory pool\n");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ return virtmem_pool;
+}
Why create a slab cache if it's pages? Why not just have the mempool
alloc/free alloc single pages?
--
Jens Axboe
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