Re: [PATCHv4 00/12] dmapool enhancements

[Keith Busch]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 02:22:09PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:51:13 -0800 Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Time spent in dma_pool alloc/free increases linearly with the number of
> > pages backing the pool. We can reduce this to constant time with minor
> > changes to how free pages are tracked.
> 
> Do we have any performance testing results for realistic workloads?

Yes, I mentioned this a little in patch 11, profiling with nvme with high-depth
dmapool allocating workloads. Results really depend on your environment, so
YMMV, but I was able to observe time spent in dma_pool_{alloc,free}() reduced
by half.