Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/iova: Try harder to allocate from rcache magazine

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Thu Sep 28 2017 - 09:41:23 EST


On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:31:23AM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> When devices with different DMA masks are using the same domain, or for
> PCI devices where we usually try a speculative 32-bit allocation first,
> there is a fair possibility that the top PFN of the rcache stack at any
> given time may be unsuitable for the lower limit, prompting a fallback
> to allocating anew from the rbtree. Consequently, we may end up
> artifically increasing pressure on the 32-bit IOVA space as unused IOVAs
> accumulate lower down in the rcache stacks, while callers with 32-bit
> masks also impose unnecessary rbtree overhead.
>
> In such cases, let's try a bit harder to satisfy the allocation locally
> first - scanning the whole stack should still be relatively inexpensive.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v2: There's no need for a 'proper' stack rotation
>
> drivers/iommu/iova.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied the series.