Re: [PATCH rdma-next v4 4/4] RDMA/umem: Move to allocate SG table from pages

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 12:51:49 EST


On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:14:06PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 06:05:15PM +0300, Maor Gottlieb wrote:
> > This is right only for the last iteration. E.g. in the first iteration in
> > case that there are more pages (left_pages), then we allocate
> > SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC.  We don't know how many pages from the second iteration
> > will be squashed to the SGE from the first iteration.
>
> Well, it is 0 or 1 SGE's. Check if the first page is mergable and
> subtract one from the required length?
>
> I dislike this sg_mark_end() it is something that should be internal,
> IMHO.

I don't think so, but Maor provided possible solution.
Can you take the patches?

Thanks

>
> Jason