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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: hch@lst.de, m.szyprowski@samsung.com,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	cai@gmx.us, salil.mehta@huawei.com, john.garry@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] dma-debug: Dynamically expand the dma_debug_entry pool
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 15:29:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181204142938.GC2767@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f99ea022be92a99339404867bc925f4fbd2ee6c4.1543856576.git.robin.murphy@arm.com>

> +	for (retry_count = 0; ; retry_count++) {
> +		spin_lock_irqsave(&free_entries_lock, flags);
> +
> +		if (num_free_entries > 0)
> +			break;
>  
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&free_entries_lock, flags);

Taking a spinlock just to read a single integer value doesn't really
help anything.

> +
> +		if (retry_count < DMA_DEBUG_DYNAMIC_RETRIES &&
> +		    !prealloc_memory(DMA_DEBUG_DYNAMIC_ENTRIES))

Don't we need GFP_ATOMIC here?  Also why do we need the retries?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-04 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-03 17:28 [PATCH 0/4] dma-debug: implement dynamic entry allocation Robin Murphy
2018-12-03 17:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] dma-debug: Use pr_fmt() Robin Murphy
2018-12-04 14:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-04 17:35   ` Joe Perches
2018-12-03 17:28 ` [PATCH 2/4] dma-debug: Refactor dma_debug_entry allocation Robin Murphy
2018-12-04 14:27   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-04 16:09     ` Robin Murphy
2018-12-03 17:28 ` [PATCH 3/4] dma-debug: Dynamically expand the dma_debug_entry pool Robin Murphy
2018-12-03 18:23   ` John Garry
2018-12-04 13:11     ` Robin Murphy
2018-12-04 14:17       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-04 16:06         ` Robin Murphy
2018-12-04 16:30       ` John Garry
2018-12-04 17:19         ` Robin Murphy
2018-12-04 17:38           ` John Garry
2018-12-04 14:29   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-12-04 16:32     ` Robin Murphy
2018-12-03 17:28 ` [RFC 4/4] dma-debug: Make leak-like behaviour apparent Robin Murphy
2018-12-04 14:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-03 17:34 ` [PATCH 0/4] dma-debug: implement dynamic entry allocation Christoph Hellwig

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