Commit 1d659236 authored Apr 14, 2020 by David Rientjes Committed by Christoph Hellwig Apr 25, 2020

dma-pool: scale the default DMA coherent pool size with memory capacity



When AMD memory encryption is enabled, some devices may use more than
256KB/sec from the atomic pools.  It would be more appropriate to scale
the default size based on memory capacity unless the coherent_pool
option is used on the kernel command line.

This provides a slight optimization on initial expansion and is deemed
appropriate due to the increased reliance on the atomic pools.  Note that
the default size of 128KB per pool will normally be larger than the
single coherent pool implementation since there are now up to three
coherent pools (DMA, DMA32, and kernel).

Note that even prior to this patch, coherent_pool= for sizes larger than
1 << (PAGE_SHIFT + MAX_ORDER-1) can fail.  With new dynamic expansion
support, this would be trivially extensible to allow even larger initial
sizes.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

parent 82fef0ad

kernel/dma/pool.c

+12 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ static unsigned long pool_size_dma32;
		static struct gen_pool *atomic_pool_kernel __ro_after_init;
		static unsigned long pool_size_kernel;

		#define DEFAULT_DMA_COHERENT_POOL_SIZE SZ_256K
		static size_t atomic_pool_size = DEFAULT_DMA_COHERENT_POOL_SIZE;
		/* Size can be defined by the coherent_pool command line */
		static size_t atomic_pool_size;

		/* Dynamic background expansion when the atomic pool is near capacity */
		static struct work_struct atomic_pool_work;
		@@ -170,6 +170,16 @@ static int __init dma_atomic_pool_init(void)
		{
		int ret = 0;

		/*
		* If coherent_pool was not used on the command line, default the pool
		* sizes to 128KB per 1GB of memory, min 128KB, max MAX_ORDER-1.
		*/
		if (!atomic_pool_size) {
		atomic_pool_size = max(totalram_pages() >> PAGE_SHIFT, 1UL) *
		SZ_128K;
		atomic_pool_size = min_t(size_t, atomic_pool_size,
		1 << (PAGE_SHIFT + MAX_ORDER-1));
		}
		INIT_WORK(&atomic_pool_work, atomic_pool_work_fn);

		atomic_pool_kernel = __dma_atomic_pool_init(atomic_pool_size,

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