From: keith.busch@linux.intel.com (Keith Busch)
Subject: [PATCH] nvme: use __GFP_NOWARN for iod allocation
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:27:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180621162725.GA26993@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <697a18cb-43c7-c768-6d17-6eb8123f26ff@kernel.dk>
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018@09:49:37AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> From: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
> Subject: [PATCH] nvme: limit max IO size and segments for pci-e
>
> nvme requires an sg table allocation for each request. If the request
> is large, then the allocation can become quite large. For instance,
> with our default software settings of 1280KB IO size, we'll need
> 10248 bytes of sg table. That turns into a 2nd order allocation,
> which we can't always guarantee. If we fail the allocation, blk-mq
> will retry it later. But there's no guarantee that we'll EVER be
> able to allocate that much contigious memory.
>
> Limit the IO size such that we never need more than a single page
> of memory. That's a lot faster and more reliable. Then back that
> allocation with a mempool, so that we know we'll always be able
> to succeed the allocation at some point.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
This looks good to me. Thanks!
Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-20 19:10 [PATCH] nvme: use __GFP_NOWARN for iod allocation Jens Axboe
2018-06-20 19:16 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-20 20:09 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-20 20:43 ` Keith Busch
2018-06-20 20:54 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-20 22:30 ` Keith Busch
2018-06-20 22:30 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 14:47 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 15:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 15:04 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 15:06 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 15:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 15:26 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 15:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 15:34 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 15:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 15:49 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 16:27 ` Keith Busch [this message]
2018-06-21 17:20 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 17:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 19:18 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-20 20:51 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 7:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 14:37 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 14:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 15:01 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 7:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 14:39 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 14:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 15:02 ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 15:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 15:11 ` Jens Axboe
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