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| author | Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> | 2015-11-19 12:50:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2015-11-19 15:15:53 -0700 |
| commit | 6bb9535bc3f59194a0ae17b17ca71aecd0f7e3a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 376b95f0ed77b604cc4fe226038c86dbb1ea2b7b /drivers/block | |
| parent | 6824c5ef5e8900e61ce8ed40885cacc1c9301c14 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6bb9535bc3f59194a0ae17b17ca71aecd0f7e3a2.tar.bz2 | |
null_blk: use ppa_cache pool
Instead of using a page pool, we can save memory by only allocating room
for 64 entries for the ppa command. Introduce a ppa_cache to allocate only
the required memory for the ppa list.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/null_blk.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk.c b/drivers/block/null_blk.c index 816525143a74..3e9c4f94b5be 100644 --- a/drivers/block/null_blk.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.c @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(nullb_list); static struct mutex lock; static int null_major; static int nullb_indexes; +static struct kmem_cache *ppa_cache; struct completion_queue { struct llist_head list; @@ -521,7 +522,7 @@ static void *null_lnvm_create_dma_pool(struct request_queue *q, char *name) { mempool_t *virtmem_pool; - virtmem_pool = mempool_create_page_pool(64, 0); + virtmem_pool = mempool_create_slab_pool(64, ppa_cache); if (!virtmem_pool) { pr_err("null_blk: Unable to create virtual memory pool\n"); return NULL; @@ -767,6 +768,12 @@ static int __init null_init(void) bs = PAGE_SIZE; } + if (use_lightnvm && bs != 4096) { + pr_warn("null_blk: LightNVM only supports 4k block size\n"); + pr_warn("null_blk: defaults block size to 4k\n"); + bs = 4096; + } + if (use_lightnvm && queue_mode != NULL_Q_MQ) { pr_warn("null_blk: LightNVM only supported for blk-mq\n"); pr_warn("null_blk: defaults queue mode to blk-mq\n"); @@ -803,15 +810,27 @@ static int __init null_init(void) if (null_major < 0) return null_major; + if (use_lightnvm) { + ppa_cache = kmem_cache_create("ppa_cache", 64 * sizeof(u64), + 0, 0, NULL); + if (!ppa_cache) { + pr_err("null_blk: unable to create ppa cache\n"); + return -ENOMEM; + } + } + for (i = 0; i < nr_devices; i++) { if (null_add_dev()) { unregister_blkdev(null_major, "nullb"); - return -EINVAL; + goto err_ppa; } } pr_info("null: module loaded\n"); return 0; +err_ppa: + kmem_cache_destroy(ppa_cache); + return -EINVAL; } static void __exit null_exit(void) @@ -826,6 +845,8 @@ static void __exit null_exit(void) null_del_dev(nullb); } mutex_unlock(&lock); + + kmem_cache_destroy(ppa_cache); } module_init(null_init); |