linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rdma-next v4 4/4] RDMA/umem: Move to allocate SG table from pages

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Message-ID: <20200930095321.GL3094@unreal>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:53:21 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Maor Gottlieb <maorg@...dia.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        Roland Scheidegger <sroland@...are.com>,
        Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...el.com>,
        VMware Graphics <linux-graphics-maintainer@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next v4 4/4] RDMA/umem: Move to allocate SG table
 from pages

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 04:59:29PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 09:46:47AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > @@ -296,11 +223,17 @@ static struct ib_umem *__ib_umem_get(struct ib_device *device,
> >  			goto umem_release;
> >
> >  		cur_base += ret * PAGE_SIZE;
> > -		npages   -= ret;
> > -
> > -		sg = ib_umem_add_sg_table(sg, page_list, ret,
> > -			dma_get_max_seg_size(device->dma_device),
> > -			&umem->sg_nents);
> > +		npages -= ret;
> > +		sg = __sg_alloc_table_from_pages(
> > +			&umem->sg_head, page_list, ret, 0, ret << PAGE_SHIFT,
> > +			dma_get_max_seg_size(device->dma_device), sg, npages,
> > +			GFP_KERNEL);
> > +		umem->sg_nents = umem->sg_head.nents;
> > +		if (IS_ERR(sg)) {
> > +			unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(page_list, ret, 0);
> > +			ret = PTR_ERR(sg);
> > +			goto umem_release;
> > +		}
> >  	}
> >
> >  	sg_mark_end(sg);
>
> Does it still need the sg_mark_end?

It is preserved here for correctness, the release logic doesn't rely on
this marker, but it is better to leave it.

Thanks

>
> Jason