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authorRobin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>2018-12-10 14:00:33 +0000
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2018-12-11 14:32:13 +0100
commitad78dee0b630527bdfed809d1f5ed95c601886ae (patch)
tree5f71279e0474d43da345329c8a51def891a007af /arch/sparc/kernel
parent0cb0e25e421436a83ee39857923e4213b983e463 (diff)
dma-debug: Batch dma_debug_entry allocation
DMA debug entries are one of those things which aren't that useful individually - we will always want some larger quantity of them - and which we don't really need to manage the exact number of - we only care about having 'enough'. In that regard, the current behaviour of creating them one-by-one leads to a lot of unwarranted function call overhead and memory wasted on alignment padding. Now that we don't have to worry about freeing anything via dma_debug_resize_entries(), we can optimise the allocation behaviour by grabbing whole pages at once, which will save considerably on the aforementioned overheads, and probably offer a little more cache/TLB locality benefit for traversing the lists under normal operation. This should also give even less reason for an architecture-level override of the preallocation size, so make the definition unconditional - if there is still any desire to change the compile-time value for some platforms it would be better off as a Kconfig option anyway. Since freeing a whole page of entries at once becomes enough of a challenge that it's not really worth complicating dma_debug_init(), we may as well tweak the preallocation behaviour such that as long as we manage to allocate *some* pages, we can leave debugging enabled on a best-effort basis rather than otherwise wasting them. Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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