The patch titled Subject: mm/dmapool.c: improve scalability of dma_pool_alloc() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is dmapool-improve-scalability-of-dma_pool_alloc.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/dmapool-improve-scalability-of-dma_pool_alloc.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/dmapool-improve-scalability-of-dma_pool_alloc.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/dmapool.c: improve scalability of dma_pool_alloc() dma_pool_alloc() scales poorly when allocating a large number of pages because it does a linear scan of all previously-allocated pages before allocating a new one. Improve its scalability by maintaining a separate list of pages that have free blocks ready to (re)allocate. In big O notation, this improves the algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e982cd38-a721-bd06-8da8-0d6a0480685c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/dmapool.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) --- a/mm/dmapool.c~dmapool-improve-scalability-of-dma_pool_alloc +++ a/mm/dmapool.c @@ -15,11 +15,16 @@ * Many older drivers still have their own code to do this. * * The current design of this allocator is fairly simple. The pool is - * represented by the 'struct dma_pool' which keeps a doubly-linked list of - * allocated pages. Each page in the page_list is split into blocks of at - * least 'size' bytes. Free blocks are tracked in an unsorted singly-linked - * list of free blocks within the page. Used blocks aren't tracked, but we - * keep a count of how many are currently allocated from each page. + * represented by the 'struct dma_pool'. Each allocated page is split into + * blocks of at least 'size' bytes. Free blocks are tracked in an unsorted + * singly-linked list of free blocks within the page. Used blocks aren't + * tracked, but we keep a count of how many are currently allocated from each + * page. + * + * The pool keeps two doubly-linked list of allocated pages. The 'available' + * list tracks pages that have one or more free blocks, and the 'full' list + * tracks pages that have no free blocks. Pages are moved from one list to + * the other as their blocks are allocated and freed. */ #include <linux/device.h> @@ -43,7 +48,10 @@ #endif struct dma_pool { /* the pool */ - struct list_head page_list; +#define POOL_FULL_IDX 0 +#define POOL_AVAIL_IDX 1 +#define POOL_MAX_IDX 2 + struct list_head page_list[POOL_MAX_IDX]; spinlock_t lock; size_t size; struct device *dev; @@ -54,7 +62,7 @@ struct dma_pool { /* the pool */ }; struct dma_page { /* cacheable header for 'allocation' bytes */ - struct list_head page_list; + struct list_head dma_list; void *vaddr; dma_addr_t dma; unsigned int in_use; @@ -70,7 +78,6 @@ show_pools(struct device *dev, struct de unsigned temp; unsigned size; char *next; - struct dma_page *page; struct dma_pool *pool; next = buf; @@ -84,11 +91,18 @@ show_pools(struct device *dev, struct de list_for_each_entry(pool, &dev->dma_pools, pools) { unsigned pages = 0; unsigned blocks = 0; + int list_idx; spin_lock_irq(&pool->lock); - list_for_each_entry(page, &pool->page_list, page_list) { - pages++; - blocks += page->in_use; + for (list_idx = 0; list_idx < POOL_MAX_IDX; list_idx++) { + struct dma_page *page; + + list_for_each_entry(page, + &pool->page_list[list_idx], + dma_list) { + pages++; + blocks += page->in_use; + } } spin_unlock_irq(&pool->lock); @@ -163,7 +177,8 @@ struct dma_pool *dma_pool_create(const c retval->dev = dev; - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&retval->page_list); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&retval->page_list[POOL_FULL_IDX]); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&retval->page_list[POOL_AVAIL_IDX]); spin_lock_init(&retval->lock); retval->size = size; retval->boundary = boundary; @@ -252,7 +267,7 @@ static void pool_free_page(struct dma_po void *vaddr = page->vaddr; dma_addr_t dma = page->dma; - list_del(&page->page_list); + list_del(&page->dma_list); if (is_page_busy(page)) { dev_err(pool->dev, @@ -278,8 +293,8 @@ static void pool_free_page(struct dma_po */ void dma_pool_destroy(struct dma_pool *pool) { - struct dma_page *page; bool empty = false; + int list_idx; if (unlikely(!pool)) return; @@ -294,10 +309,15 @@ void dma_pool_destroy(struct dma_pool *p device_remove_file(pool->dev, &dev_attr_pools); mutex_unlock(&pools_reg_lock); - while ((page = list_first_entry_or_null(&pool->page_list, - struct dma_page, - page_list))) { - pool_free_page(pool, page); + for (list_idx = 0; list_idx < POOL_MAX_IDX; list_idx++) { + struct dma_page *page; + + while ((page = list_first_entry_or_null( + &pool->page_list[list_idx], + struct dma_page, + dma_list))) { + pool_free_page(pool, page); + } } kfree(pool); @@ -325,10 +345,11 @@ void *dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *po might_sleep_if(gfpflags_allow_blocking(mem_flags)); spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags); - list_for_each_entry(page, &pool->page_list, page_list) { - if (page->offset < pool->allocation) - goto ready; - } + page = list_first_entry_or_null(&pool->page_list[POOL_AVAIL_IDX], + struct dma_page, + dma_list); + if (page) + goto ready; /* pool_alloc_page() might sleep, so temporarily drop &pool->lock */ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags); @@ -339,11 +360,15 @@ void *dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *po spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags); - list_add(&page->page_list, &pool->page_list); + list_add(&page->dma_list, &pool->page_list[POOL_AVAIL_IDX]); ready: page->in_use++; offset = page->offset; page->offset = *(int *)(page->vaddr + offset); + if (page->offset >= pool->allocation) + /* Move page from the "available" list to the "full" list. */ + list_move_tail(&page->dma_list, + &pool->page_list[POOL_FULL_IDX]); retval = offset + page->vaddr; *handle = offset + page->dma; #ifdef DMAPOOL_DEBUG @@ -381,13 +406,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_pool_alloc); static struct dma_page *pool_find_page(struct dma_pool *pool, dma_addr_t dma) { - struct dma_page *page; + int list_idx; - list_for_each_entry(page, &pool->page_list, page_list) { - if (dma < page->dma) - continue; - if ((dma - page->dma) < pool->allocation) - return page; + for (list_idx = 0; list_idx < POOL_MAX_IDX; list_idx++) { + struct dma_page *page; + + list_for_each_entry(page, + &pool->page_list[list_idx], + dma_list) { + if (dma < page->dma) + continue; + if ((dma - page->dma) < pool->allocation) + return page; + } } return NULL; } @@ -444,6 +475,9 @@ void dma_pool_free(struct dma_pool *pool #endif page->in_use--; + if (page->offset >= pool->allocation) + /* Move page from the "full" list to the "available" list. */ + list_move(&page->dma_list, &pool->page_list[POOL_AVAIL_IDX]); *(int *)vaddr = page->offset; page->offset = offset; /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are dmapool-fix-boundary-comparison.patch dmapool-remove-checks-for-dev-==-null.patch dmapool-cleanup-dma_pool_destroy.patch dmapool-improve-scalability-of-dma_pool_alloc.patch dmapool-rename-fields-in-dma_page.patch dmapool-improve-scalability-of-dma_pool_free.patch dmapool-cleanup-integer-types.patch dmapool-improve-accuracy-of-debug-statistics.patch dmapool-debug-prevent-endless-loop-in-case-of-corruption.patch