Re: [PATCH rdma-next v4 4/4] RDMA/umem: Move to allocate SG table from pages

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:53:58PM +0300, Maor Gottlieb wrote:
> 
> On 9/30/2020 2:45 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:53:21PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 04:59:29PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 09:46:47AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > > @@ -296,11 +223,17 @@ static struct ib_umem *__ib_umem_get(struct ib_device *device,
> > > > >   			goto umem_release;
> > > > > 
> > > > >   		cur_base += ret * PAGE_SIZE;
> > > > > -		npages   -= ret;
> > > > > -
> > > > > -		sg = ib_umem_add_sg_table(sg, page_list, ret,
> > > > > -			dma_get_max_seg_size(device->dma_device),
> > > > > -			&umem->sg_nents);
> > > > > +		npages -= ret;
> > > > > +		sg = __sg_alloc_table_from_pages(
> > > > > +			&umem->sg_head, page_list, ret, 0, ret << PAGE_SHIFT,
> > > > > +			dma_get_max_seg_size(device->dma_device), sg, npages,
> > > > > +			GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > > +		umem->sg_nents = umem->sg_head.nents;
> > > > > +		if (IS_ERR(sg)) {
> > > > > +			unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(page_list, ret, 0);
> > > > > +			ret = PTR_ERR(sg);
> > > > > +			goto umem_release;
> > > > > +		}
> > > > >   	}
> > > > > 
> > > > >   	sg_mark_end(sg);
> > > > Does it still need the sg_mark_end?
> > > It is preserved here for correctness, the release logic doesn't rely on
> > > this marker, but it is better to leave it.
> > I mean, my read of __sg_alloc_table_from_pages() is that it already
> > placed it, the final __alloc_table() does it?
> 
> It marks the last allocated sge, but not the last populated sge (with page).

Why are those different?

It looks like the last iteration calls __alloc_table() with an exact
number of sges

+	if (!prv) {
+		/* Only the last allocation could be less than the maximum */
+		table_size = left_pages ? SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC : chunks;
+		ret = sg_alloc_table(sgt, table_size, gfp_mask);
+		if (unlikely(ret))
+			return ERR_PTR(ret);
+	}

Jason