linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/iova: change IOVA_MAG

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Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2022 13:31:08 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, iommu@...ts.linux.dev,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/iova: change IOVA_MAG_SIZE to 127 to save memory

On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 07:44:50PM +0800, Feng Tang wrote:
> kmalloc will round up the request size to power of 2, and current
> iova_magazine's size is 1032 (1024+8) bytes, so each instance
> allocated will get 2048 bytes from kmalloc, causing around 1KB
> waste.
> 
> Change IOVA_MAG_SIZE from 128 to 127 to make size of 'iova_magazine'
> 1024 bytes so that no memory will be wasted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
> Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>

Applied, thanks.