Re: page pools, was Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] drm: Add a sharable drm page-pool implementation

[John Stultz]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 12:15 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 09:10:26AM +0200, Christian K??nig wrote:
> > Well, the original code all this is based on already had the comment that
> > this really belong into the page allocator.
> >
> > The key point is traditionally only GPUs used uncached and write-combined
> > memory in such large quantities that having a pool for them makes sense.
> >
> > Because of this we had this separately to reduce the complexity in the page
> > allocator to handle another set of complexity of allocation types.
> >
> > For the upside, for those use cases it means huge performance improvements
> > for those drivers. See the numbers John provided in the cover letter.
> >
> > But essentially at least I would be totally fine moving this into the page
> > allocator, but moving it outside of TTM already helps with this goal. So
> > this patch set is certainly a step into the right direction.
>
> Unless I'm badly misreading the patch and this series there is nothing
> about cache attributes in this code.  It just allocates pages, zeroes
> them, eventually hands them out to a consumer and registers a shrinker
> for its freelist.
>
> If OTOH it actually dealt with cachability that should be documented
> in the commit log and probably also the naming of the implementation.

So the cache attributes are still managed in the tmm_pool code. This
series just pulls the pool/shrinker management out into common code so
we can use it in the dmabuf heap code without duplicating things.

thanks
-john