linux/include
Ming Lei 4635873c56 scsi: lib/sg_pool.c: improve APIs for allocating sg pool
sg_alloc_table_chained() currently allows the caller to provide one
preallocated SGL and returns if the requested number isn't bigger than
size of that SGL. This is used to inline an SGL for an IO request.

However, scattergather code only allows that size of the 1st preallocated
SGL to be SG_CHUNK_SIZE(128). This means a substantial amount of memory
(4KB) is claimed for the SGL for each IO request. If the I/O is small, it
would be prudent to allocate a smaller SGL.

Introduce an extra parameter to sg_alloc_table_chained() and
sg_free_table_chained() for specifying size of the preallocated SGL.

Both __sg_free_table() and __sg_alloc_table() assume that each SGL has the
same size except for the last one.  Change the code to allow both functions
to accept a variable size for the 1st preallocated SGL.

[mkp: attempted to clarify commit desc]

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2019-06-20 15:21:33 -04:00
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acpi More ACPI updates for 5.2-rc1 2019-05-15 08:58:49 -07:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 10:23:24 -07:00
clocksource
crypto
drm drm pull request for 5.2 2019-05-08 21:35:19 -07:00
dt-bindings ARM: Device-tree updates 2019-05-16 08:38:17 -07:00
keys
kvm
linux scsi: lib/sg_pool.c: improve APIs for allocating sg pool 2019-06-20 15:21:33 -04:00
math-emu
media media updates for v5.2-rc1 2019-05-16 11:57:16 -07:00
memory
misc ocxl: Provide global MMIO accessors for external drivers 2019-05-03 02:55:02 +10:00
net AFS fixes 2019-05-16 17:00:13 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma RDMA: Add EFA related definitions 2019-05-06 13:47:50 -03:00
scsi
soc Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 11:11:20 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.2-rc1 2019-05-17 13:57:54 -07:00
target
trace The major changes in this tracing update includes: 2019-05-15 16:05:47 -07:00
uapi * ARM: support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests, PMU improvements 2019-05-17 10:33:30 -07:00
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