linux-kernel - [PATCH] ib_srpt: use kvmalloc to allocate ring pointers

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Date:   Mon,  9 Jul 2018 16:51:08 +0300
From:   Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Denis Lunev <den@...tuozzo.com>,
        Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@...tuozzo.com>,
        Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@...tuozzo.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ib_srpt: use kvmalloc to allocate ring pointers

An array of pointers to SRPT contexts in ib_device is over 30KiB even
in default case, in which an amount of contexts is 4095. The patch
is intended to weed out large contigous allocation for non-DMA memory.

Signed-off-by: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@...tuozzo.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
index 3081c62..de167af 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ static struct srpt_ioctx **srpt_alloc_ioctx_ring(struct srpt_device *sdev,
 	WARN_ON(ioctx_size != sizeof(struct srpt_recv_ioctx)
 		&& ioctx_size != sizeof(struct srpt_send_ioctx));
 
-	ring = kmalloc_array(ring_size, sizeof(ring[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
+	ring = kvmalloc_array(ring_size, sizeof(ring[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ring)
 		goto out;
 	for (i = 0; i < ring_size; ++i) {
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ static struct srpt_ioctx **srpt_alloc_ioctx_ring(struct srpt_device *sdev,
 err:
 	while (--i >= 0)
 		srpt_free_ioctx(sdev, ring[i], dma_size, dir);
-	kfree(ring);
+	kvfree(ring);
 	ring = NULL;
 out:
 	return ring;
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ static void srpt_free_ioctx_ring(struct srpt_ioctx **ioctx_ring,
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ring_size; ++i)
 		srpt_free_ioctx(sdev, ioctx_ring[i], dma_size, dir);
-	kfree(ioctx_ring);
+	kvfree(ioctx_ring);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.1.4