Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: hisi_sas: optimise DMA slot memory

[Martin K. Petersen]

John,

> Currently we allocate 3 sets of DMA memories from separate
> pools for each slot. This is inefficient in terms of memory usage
> (buffers are less than 1 page in size, so we lose due to alignment),
> and also time spent in doing 3 allocations + de-allocations per slot,
> instead of 1.
>
> To optimise, combine the 3 DMA buffers into a single buffer from a
> single pool.

Applied to 4.13/scsi-queue. Thank you!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering