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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 02:31:24 -0400
From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
To: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@...sung.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 3/9] block: add emulation for copy
On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 06:37:02PM +0530, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
> On 23/07/20 09:50AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > +static void *blkdev_copy_alloc_buf(sector_t req_size, sector_t *alloc_size,
> > > + gfp_t gfp_mask)
> > > +{
> > > + int min_size = PAGE_SIZE;
> > > + void *buf;
> > > +
> > > + while (req_size >= min_size) {
> > > + buf = kvmalloc(req_size, gfp_mask);
> > > + if (buf) {
> > > + *alloc_size = req_size;
> > > + return buf;
> > > + }
> > > + /* retry half the requested size */
> > > + req_size >>= 1;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + return NULL;
> >
> > Is there any good reason for using vmalloc instead of a bunch
> > of distcontiguous pages?
> >
>
> kvmalloc seemed convenient for the purpose. We will need to call alloc_page
> in a loop to guarantee discontigous pages. Do you prefer that over kvmalloc?
No, kvmalloc should be the preferred approach here now: with large
folios, we're now getting better about doing more large memory
allocations and avoiding fragmentation, so in practice this won't be a
vmalloc allocation except in exceptional circumstances, and performance
will be better and the code will be simpler doing a single large
allocation.
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