On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 08:26:43AM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > On 5/11/21 6:36 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > The rdmavt QP has fields that are both needed for the control and data > > path. Such mixed declaration caused to the very specific allocation flow > > with kzalloc_node and SGE list embedded into the struct rvt_qp. > > > > This patch separates QP creation to two: regular memory allocation for > > the control path and specific code for the SGE list, while the access to > > the later is performed through derefenced pointer. > > > > Such pointer and its context are expected to be in the cache, so > > performance difference is expected to be negligible, if any exists. > > > > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Hi, > > > > This change is needed to convert QP to core allocation scheme. In that > > scheme QP is allocated outside of the driver and size of such allocation > > is constant and can be calculated at the compile time. > > Thanks Leon, we'll get this put through our testing. Thanks a lot. > > -Denny
