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.com
Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup")
Signed-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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