tree 20da589986c0ae1c377d802c34739894f29f71b3
parent f2ae8d04327f14ff93a263af265bc91c689c208e
author Xiang Chen <chenxiang66@hisilicon.com> 1527771048 +0800
committer Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> 1529460145 -0400

scsi: hisi_sas: Pre-allocate slot DMA buffers

Currently the driver spends much time allocating and freeing the slot DMA
buffer for command delivery/completion. To boost the performance,
pre-allocate the buffers for all IPTT. The downside of this approach is
that we are reallocating all buffer memory upfront, so hog memory which we
may not need.

However, the current method - DMA buffer pool - also caches all buffers and
does not free them until the pool is destroyed, so is not exactly efficient
either.

On top of this, since the slot DMA buffer is slightly bigger than a 4K
page, we need to allocate 2x4K pages per buffer (for 4K page kernel), which
is quite wasteful. For 64K page size this is not such an issue.

So, for the 4K page case, in order to make memory usage more efficient,
pre-allocating larger blocks of DMA memory for the buffers can be more
efficient.

To make DMA memory usage most efficient, we would choose a single
contiguous DMA memory block, but this could use up all the DMA memory in
the system (when CMA enabled and no IOMMU), or we may just not be able to
allocate a DMA buffer large enough when no CMA or IOMMU.

To decide the block size we use the LCM (least common multiple) of the
buffer size and the page size. We roundup(64) to ensure the LCM is not too
large, even though a little memory may be wasted per block.

So, with this, the total memory requirement is about is about 17MB for 4096
max IPTT.

Previously (for 4K pages case), it would be 32MB (for all slots
allocated).

With this change, the relative increase of IOPS for bs=4K read when
PAGE_SIZE=4K and PAGE_SIZE=64K is as follows:
    IODEPTH     4K PAGE_SIZE      64K PAGE_SIZE
    32          56%               47%
    64          53%               44%
    128         64%               43%
    256         67%               45%

Signed-off-by: Xiang Chen <chenxiang66@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>