From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
To: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: "lsf@lists.linux-foundation.org" <lsf@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>,
Brenden Blanco <bblanco@plumgrid.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Lsf] [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Generic page-pool recycle facility?
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 21:45:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <570A9F5B.5010600@grimberg.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <570678B7.7010802@sandisk.com>
>> This is also very interesting for storage targets, which face the same
>> issue. SCST has a mode where it caches some fully constructed SGLs,
>> which is probably very similar to what NICs want to do.
>
> I think a cached allocator for page sets + the scatterlists that
> describe these page sets would not only be useful for SCSI target
> implementations but also for the Linux SCSI initiator. Today the scsi-mq
> code reserves space in each scsi_cmnd for a scatterlist of
> SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS. If scatterlists would be cached together with page
> sets less memory would be needed per scsi_cmnd.
If we go down this road how about also attaching some driver opaques
to the page sets?
I know of some drivers that can make good use of those ;)
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2016-04-07 14:17 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC] Generic page-pool recycle facility? Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-07 14:38 ` [Lsf-pc] " Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-07 15:11 ` [Lsf] " Bart Van Assche
2016-04-10 18:45 ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
2016-04-11 21:41 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-11 22:02 ` Alexander Duyck
2016-04-12 6:28 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-12 15:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2016-04-11 22:21 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-04-12 6:16 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-12 17:20 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-04-07 15:48 ` Chuck Lever
2016-04-07 16:14 ` [Lsf-pc] [Lsf] " Rik van Riel
2016-04-07 19:43 ` [Lsf] [Lsf-pc] " Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-07 15:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-09 9:11 ` [Lsf] " Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-09 12:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-11 20:23 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-11 21:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-07 19:48 ` Waskiewicz, PJ
2016-04-07 20:38 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-08 16:12 ` Alexander Duyck
2016-04-11 8:58 ` [Lsf-pc] " Mel Gorman
2016-04-11 12:26 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-11 13:08 ` Mel Gorman
2016-04-11 16:19 ` [Lsf] " Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-11 16:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-11 19:47 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-11 21:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-11 18:07 ` Mel Gorman
2016-04-11 19:26 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-11 16:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2016-04-11 17:46 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2016-04-11 18:37 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-11 18:53 ` Bart Van Assche
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