From 0aa8b1da4260b94eec18153b9e1c65d5fbddba5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolin Chen Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 21:06:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] dma-contiguous: use fallback alloc_pages for single pages The addresses within a single page are always contiguous, so it's not so necessary to always allocate one single page from CMA area. Since the CMA area has a limited predefined size of space, it may run out of space in heavy use cases, where there might be quite a lot CMA pages being allocated for single pages. However, there is also a concern that a device might care where a page comes from -- it might expect the page from CMA area and act differently if the page doesn't. This patch tries to use the fallback alloc_pages path, instead of one-page size allocations from the global CMA area in case that a device does not have its own CMA area. This'd save resources from the CMA global area for more CMA allocations, and also reduce CMA fragmentations resulted from trivial allocations. Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen Tested-by: dann frazier Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig --- kernel/dma/contiguous.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/dma/contiguous.c b/kernel/dma/contiguous.c index 637b120d647b5..bfc0c17f2a3d4 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/contiguous.c +++ b/kernel/dma/contiguous.c @@ -223,14 +223,23 @@ bool dma_release_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, struct page *pages, * This function allocates contiguous memory buffer for specified device. It * first tries to use device specific contiguous memory area if available or * the default global one, then tries a fallback allocation of normal pages. + * + * Note that it byapss one-page size of allocations from the global area as + * the addresses within one page are always contiguous, so there is no need + * to waste CMA pages for that kind; it also helps reduce fragmentations. */ struct page *dma_alloc_contiguous(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp) { int node = dev ? dev_to_node(dev) : NUMA_NO_NODE; size_t count = PAGE_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT; size_t align = get_order(PAGE_ALIGN(size)); - struct cma *cma = dev_get_cma_area(dev); struct page *page = NULL; + struct cma *cma = NULL; + + if (dev && dev->cma_area) + cma = dev->cma_area; + else if (count > 1) + cma = dma_contiguous_default_area; /* CMA can be used only in the context which permits sleeping */ if (cma && gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp)) { -- 2.39.5