[PATCH] nvme-pci: fix host memory buffer allocation size

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 12:19:22PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> We want to allocate the smallest possible amount of buffers with the
> largest possible size (1 buffer of size "hmpre").
> 
> Previously we were allocating as many buffers as possible of the smallest
> possible size.
> This also lead to "hmpre" to not be satisifed as not enough buffer slots
> where available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux at weissschuh.net>
> ---
> 
> Also discussed at https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/f94565db-f217-4a56-83c3-c6429807185c@t-8ch.de/
> 
>  drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index 3aacf1c0d5a5..0546523cc20b 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -2090,7 +2090,7 @@ static int __nvme_alloc_host_mem(struct nvme_dev *dev, u64 preferred,
>  
>  static int nvme_alloc_host_mem(struct nvme_dev *dev, u64 min, u64 preferred)
>  {
> -	u64 min_chunk = min_t(u64, preferred, PAGE_SIZE * MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);
> +	u64 min_chunk = max_t(u64, preferred, PAGE_SIZE * MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);

preferred is based on the HMPRE field in the spec, which documents the
preffered size.  So the max here would not make ny sense at all.