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authorPraveen Kumar Kannoju <praveen.kannoju@oracle.com>2021-04-03 07:53:55 +0300
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>2021-04-08 02:25:17 +0300
commit7e111bbff92620f56609a81353bba5bd1944851b (patch)
tree4ae135190e0f15f0192714f93282a7bb6d8e6370
parentfdde1aa09a82992cb09af8082d50afae5d22bfa4 (diff)
downloadlinux-7e111bbff92620f56609a81353bba5bd1944851b.tar.xz
IB/mlx5: Reduce max order of memory allocated for xlt update
To update xlt (during mlx5_ib_reg_user_mr()), the driver can request up to 1 MB (order-8) memory, depending on the size of the MR. This costly allocation can sometimes take very long to return (a few seconds). This causes the calling application to hang for a long time, especially when the system is fragmented. To avoid these long latency spikes, the calls the higher order allocations need to fail faster in case they are not available. In order to acheive this we need __GFP_NORETRY flag in the gfp_mask before during fetching the free pages. Allow the algorithm to automatically fall back to smaller page sizes. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1617425635-35631-1-git-send-email-praveen.kannoju@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Praveen Kumar Kannoju <praveen.kannoju@oracle.com> Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
index eeb9f7e15634..ab5bffb919d1 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ static void *mlx5_ib_alloc_xlt(size_t *nents, size_t ent_size, gfp_t gfp_mask)
*/
might_sleep();
- gfp_mask |= __GFP_ZERO;
+ gfp_mask |= __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NORETRY;
/*
* If the system already has a suitable high order page then just use