[PATCH 0/5] iova augmented rbtree O(log n) alloc_iova
From: Rik van Riel
Date: Tue May 12 2026 - 22:03:28 EST
Occasionally production workloads at Meta run into the linear search
in alloc_iova() in ways that cause real issues. For example, when
enough CPUs at a time fall into the linear search trap, systems
have been known to get stuck for so long that it causes soft lockups.
With the old code, free_iova, find_iova, reserve_iova, iova_insert_rbtree,
and remove_iova were all O(log n) already. They stay that way with these
patches.
This patch series turns the iova rbtree into an augmented rbtree,
which allows alloc_iova to also be O(log n).
It also adds some self tests for the iova code.
The code was written by Claude, and nitpicked by myself.
Don't be shy if there are more nitpicks remaining.
It was tested both in a VM (running the selftests), and on an
AMD Bergamo system with IOMMU enabled.
Unfortunately I do not know of any way to reproduce the linear
search soft lockups at will, so I have not been able to verify
that scenary in practice.
Based on 5d6919055dec Linux 7.1-rc3