User experienced performance dip on measuring IOPS while EDIF
enabled. During I/O time, driver uses dma_pool_zalloc() call to allocate a
chunk of memory. This call contains a lock behind the scene which
contribute to lock contention. Save the allocated memory for reuse and
avoid the lock.
Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran <qutran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nilesh Javali <njavali@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>