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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] dmaengine: ioat: Decreasing allocation chunk size 2M -> 512K
On 02-04-20, 19:33, leonid.ravich@dell.com wrote:
> From: Leonid Ravich <Leonid.Ravich@emc.com>
>
> current IOAT driver using big (2MB) allocations chunk for its descriptors
> therefore each ioat dma engine need 2 such chunks
> (64k entres in ring each entry 64B = 4MB)
> requiring 2 * 2M * dmaengine contiguies memory chunk
> might fail due to memory fragmention.

This is quite decent explanation :) pls use upto 72 chars to make it a
better read.

>
> so we decreasing chunk size and using more chunks.
>
> Acked-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Leonid Ravich <Leonid.Ravich@emc.com>
> ---
> drivers/dma/ioat/dma.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.h b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.h
> index 5216c6b..e6b622e 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.h
> +++ b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.h
> @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ struct ioatdma_device {
>
> #define IOAT_MAX_ORDER 16
> #define IOAT_MAX_DESCS (1 << IOAT_MAX_ORDER)
> -#define IOAT_CHUNK_SIZE (SZ_2M)
> +#define IOAT_CHUNK_SIZE (SZ_512K)
> #define IOAT_DESCS_PER_CHUNK (IOAT_CHUNK_SIZE / IOAT_DESC_SZ)
>
> struct ioat_descs {
> --
> 1.9.3

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~Vinod

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