Re: [PATCH] dma-debug: increase HASH_SIZE

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jan 30 2020 - 11:27:45 EST


On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 03:55:08PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 8:13 PM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > With modern NIC, it is not unusual having about ~256,000 active dma
> > mappings. Hash size of 1024 buckets is too small.
> >
> > Forcing full cache line per bucket does not seem useful,
> > especially now that we have a contention on free_entries_lock
> > for allocations and freeing of entries. Better using space
> > to fit more buckets.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/dma/debug.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/dma/debug.c b/kernel/dma/debug.c
> > index 4ad74f5987ea9e95f9bb5e2d1592254e367d24fb..35e2a853bff9c482d789ab331d79aaee07753a97 100644
> > --- a/kernel/dma/debug.c
> > +++ b/kernel/dma/debug.c
> > @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
> >
> > #include <asm/sections.h>
> >
> > -#define HASH_SIZE 1024ULL
> > +#define HASH_SIZE 16384ULL
> > #define HASH_FN_SHIFT 13
> > #define HASH_FN_MASK (HASH_SIZE - 1)
> >
> > @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ typedef bool (*match_fn)(struct dma_debug_entry *, struct dma_debug_entry *);
> > struct hash_bucket {
> > struct list_head list;
> > spinlock_t lock;
> > -} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
> > +};
> >
> > /* Hash list to save the allocated dma addresses */
> > static struct hash_bucket dma_entry_hash[HASH_SIZE];
>
> JFTR, this increases dma_entry_hash size by 327680 bytes, and pushes
> a few more boards beyond their bootloader-imposed kernel size limits.
>
> Disabling CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG fixes that.
> Of course the real fix is to fix the bootloaders...

Can someone just send a patch to switch this to a dynamic allocation?