[RFC PATCH] nvme-pci: Move the sg table allocation/free into init/exit_request

[Baolin Wang]

Move the sg table allocation and free into the init_request() and
exit_request(), instead of allocating sg table when queuing requests,
which can benefit the IO performance.

Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang at linux.alibaba.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index b1d18f0..cf7c997 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -410,9 +410,25 @@ static int nvme_init_request(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct request *req,
 	iod->nvmeq = nvmeq;
 
 	nvme_req(req)->ctrl = &dev->ctrl;
+
+	iod->sg = mempool_alloc(dev->iod_mempool, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (!iod->sg)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	sg_init_table(iod->sg, NVME_MAX_SEGS);
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void nvme_exit_request(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct request *req,
+			      unsigned int hctx_idx)
+{
+	struct nvme_iod *iod = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(req);
+	struct nvme_dev *dev = set->driver_data;
+
+	mempool_free(iod->sg, dev->iod_mempool);
+	iod->sg = NULL;
+}
+
 static int queue_irq_offset(struct nvme_dev *dev)
 {
 	/* if we have more than 1 vec, admin queue offsets us by 1 */
@@ -557,8 +573,6 @@ static void nvme_unmap_data(struct nvme_dev *dev, struct request *req)
 		dma_pool_free(dev->prp_page_pool, addr, dma_addr);
 		dma_addr = next_dma_addr;
 	}
-
-	mempool_free(iod->sg, dev->iod_mempool);
 }
 
 static void nvme_print_sgl(struct scatterlist *sgl, int nents)
@@ -808,10 +822,6 @@ static blk_status_t nvme_map_data(struct nvme_dev *dev, struct request *req,
 	}
 
 	iod->dma_len = 0;
-	iod->sg = mempool_alloc(dev->iod_mempool, GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (!iod->sg)
-		return BLK_STS_RESOURCE;
-	sg_init_table(iod->sg, blk_rq_nr_phys_segments(req));
 	iod->nents = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, iod->sg);
 	if (!iod->nents)
 		goto out;
@@ -1557,6 +1567,7 @@ static int nvme_create_queue(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, int qid, bool polled)
 	.complete	= nvme_pci_complete_rq,
 	.init_hctx	= nvme_admin_init_hctx,
 	.init_request	= nvme_init_request,
+	.exit_request	= nvme_exit_request,
 	.timeout	= nvme_timeout,
 };
 
@@ -1566,6 +1577,7 @@ static int nvme_create_queue(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, int qid, bool polled)
 	.commit_rqs	= nvme_commit_rqs,
 	.init_hctx	= nvme_init_hctx,
 	.init_request	= nvme_init_request,
+	.exit_request	= nvme_exit_request,
 	.map_queues	= nvme_pci_map_queues,
 	.timeout	= nvme_timeout,
 	.poll		= nvme_poll,
-- 
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