From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Changelog: v2: * Fixed indentations and comments * Deleted sg_alloc_next() * Squashed lib/scatterlist patches into one v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200910134259.1304543-1-leon@xxxxxxxxxx * Changed _sg_chain to be __sg_chain * Added dependency on ARCH_NO_SG_CHAIN * Removed struct sg_append v0: * https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200903121853.1145976-1-leon@xxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From Maor: This series adds a new constructor for a scatter gather table. Like sg_alloc_table_from_pages function, this function merges all contiguous chunks of the pages a into single scatter gather entry. In contrast to sg_alloc_table_from_pages, the new API allows chaining of new pages to already initialized SG table. This allows drivers to utilize the optimization of merging contiguous pages without a need to pre allocate all the pages and hold them in a very large temporary buffer prior to the call to SG table initialization. The first two patches refactor the code of sg_alloc_table_from_pages in order to have code sharing and add sg_alloc_next function to allow dynamic allocation of more entries in the SG table. The third patch introduces the new API. The last patch changes the Infiniband driver to use the new API. It removes duplicate functionality from the code and benefits the optimization of allocating dynamic SG table from pages. In huge pages system of 2MB page size, without this change, the SG table would contain x512 SG entries. E.g. for 100GB memory registration: Number of entries Size Before 26214400 600.0MB After 51200 1.2MB Thanks Maor Gottlieb (2): lib/scatterlist: Add support in dynamic allocation of SG table from pages RDMA/umem: Move to allocate SG table from pages drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 90 ++--------- include/linux/scatterlist.h | 34 ++-- lib/scatterlist.c | 273 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 3 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 163 deletions(-) -- 2.26.2
