[PATCH 2/2] intel-iommu: don't unnecessarily call dma_alloc_from_contiguous()

Akinobu Mita
2014-09-28T15:52:44Z

If CONFIG_DMA_CMA is enabled, intel_alloc_coherent() tries to allocate
memory region by dma_alloc_from_contiguous() before trying to use
alloc_pages().

This wastes CMA region by small DMA-coherent buffers which can be
allocated by alloc_pages(). And it also causes performance degradation,
as this is trying to drive _all_ dma mapping allocations through a
_very_ small window, reported by Peter Hurley.

This fixes it by trying to allocate by alloc_pages() first in
intel_alloc_coherent() as dma_alloc_from_contiguous should be called
only for huge allocation.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
---
drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
index 3441615..f9794fa 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
@@ -3250,7 +3250,8 @@ static void *intel_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
flags |= GFP_DMA32;
}

- if (flags & __GFP_WAIT) {
+ page = alloc_pages(flags | __GFP_NOWARN, order);
+ if (!page && (flags & __GFP_WAIT)) {
unsigned int count = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;

page = dma_alloc_from_contiguous(dev, count, order);
@@ -3261,10 +3262,10 @@ static void *intel_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
}
}

- if (!page)
- page = alloc_pages(flags, order);
- if (!page)
+ if (!page) {
+ warn_alloc_failed(flags, order, NULL);
return NULL;
+ }
memset(page_address(page), 0, size);

*dma_handle = __intel_map_single(dev, page_to_phys(page), size,
--
1.9.1