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

From: Ganapatrao Kulkarni
Date: Fri Sep 22 2017 - 11:33:31 EST


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> 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