[Devel] [PATCH RHEL7 COMMIT] ib/srpt: use vmalloc to allocate ring pointers
Konstantin Khorenko
khorenko at virtuozzo.com
Thu Jul 5 11:19:10 MSK 2018
The commit is pushed to "branch-rh7-3.10.0-862.3.2.vz7.61.x-ovz" and will appear at https://src.openvz.org/scm/ovz/vzkernel.git
after rh7-3.10.0-862.3.2.vz7.61.13
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commit 479860d71d2ed5159e5fd81e0ef20b11985a50a3
Author: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich at virtuozzo.com>
Date: Thu Jul 5 11:19:09 2018 +0300
ib/srpt: use vmalloc to allocate ring pointers
An array of pointers to SRPT contexts in ib_device is over 30KiB even in
default case, in an amount of contexts is 4095. The patch is intended to
weed out large contigous allocation for non-DMA memory.
https://jira.sw.ru/browse/HCI-100
Signed-off-by: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich at virtuozzo.com>
---
drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
index dcd810c5be91..5bc8d57256e2 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ static struct srpt_ioctx **srpt_alloc_ioctx_ring(struct srpt_device *sdev,
WARN_ON(ioctx_size != sizeof(struct srpt_recv_ioctx)
&& ioctx_size != sizeof(struct srpt_send_ioctx));
- ring = kmalloc(ring_size * sizeof(ring[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
+ ring = vmalloc(ring_size * sizeof(ring[0]));
if (!ring)
goto out;
for (i = 0; i < ring_size; ++i) {
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ static void srpt_free_ioctx_ring(struct srpt_ioctx **ioctx_ring,
for (i = 0; i < ring_size; ++i)
srpt_free_ioctx(sdev, ioctx_ring[i], dma_size, dir);
- kfree(ioctx_ring);
+ vfree(ioctx_ring);
}
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