[PATCH 2/4] numa, iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Use NUMA aware memory allocation for smmu translation tables

Ganapatrao Kulkarni gklkml16 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 08:33:24 PDT 2017


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com> wrote:
> On 21/09/17 09:59, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
>> function __arm_lpae_alloc_pages is used to allcoated memory for smmu
>> translation tables. updating function to allocate memory/pages
>> from the proximity domain of SMMU device.
>
> AFAICS, data->pgd_size always works out to a power-of-two number of
> pages, so I'm not sure why we've ever needed alloc_pages_exact() here. I
> think we could simply use alloc_pages_node() and drop patch #1.

thanks Robin, i think we can replace with alloc_pages_node.
i will change as suggested in next version.

>
> Robin.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni at cavium.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c | 4 +++-
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
>> index e8018a3..f6d01f6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
>> @@ -215,8 +215,10 @@ static void *__arm_lpae_alloc_pages(size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
>>  {
>>       struct device *dev = cfg->iommu_dev;
>>       dma_addr_t dma;
>> -     void *pages = alloc_pages_exact(size, gfp | __GFP_ZERO);
>> +     void *pages;
>>
>> +     pages = alloc_pages_exact_nid(dev_to_node(dev), size,
>> +                     gfp | __GFP_ZERO);
>>       if (!pages)
>>               return NULL;
>>
>>
>

thanks
Ganapat



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