dmapool: link blocks across pages
The allocated dmapool pages are never freed for the lifetime of the pool. There is no need for the two level list+stack lookup for finding a free block since nothing is ever removed from the list. Just use a simple stack, reducing time complexity to constant. The implementation inserts the stack linking elements and the dma handle of the block within itself when freed. This means the smallest possible dmapool block is increased to at most 16 bytes to accommodate these fields, but there are no exisiting users requesting a dma pool smaller than that anyway. Removing the list has a significant change in performance. Using the kernel's micro-benchmarking self test: Before: # modprobe dmapool_test dmapool test: size:16 blocks:8192 time:57282 dmapool test: size:64 blocks:8192 time:172562 dmapool test: size:256 blocks:8192 time:789247 dmapool test: size:1024 blocks:2048 time:371823 dmapool test: size:4096 blocks:1024 time:362237 After: # modprobe dmapool_test dmapool test: size:16 blocks:8192 time:24997 dmapool test: size:64 blocks:8192 time:26584 dmapool test: size:256 blocks:8192 time:33542 dmapool test: size:1024 blocks:2048 time:9022 dmapool test: size:4096 blocks:1024 time:6045 The module test allocates quite a few blocks that may not accurately represent how these pools are used in real life. For a more marco level benchmark, running fio high-depth + high-batched on nvme, this patch shows submission and completion latency reduced by ~100usec each, 1% IOPs improvement, and perf record's time spent in dma_pool_alloc/free were reduced by half. [kbusch@kernel.org: push new blocks in ascending order] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230221165400.1595247-1-kbusch@meta.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-12-kbusch@meta.comSigned-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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