linux/tools
Maor Gottlieb 07da1223ec lib/scatterlist: Add support in dynamic allocation of SG table from pages
Extend __sg_alloc_table_from_pages to support dynamic allocation of
SG table from pages. It should be used by drivers that can't supply
all the pages at one time.

This function returns the last populated SGE in the table. Users should
pass it as an argument to the function from the second call and forward.
As before, nents will be equal to the number of populated SGEs (chunks).

With this new extension, drivers can benefit the optimization of merging
contiguous pages without a need to allocate all pages in advance and
hold them in a large buffer.

E.g. with the Infiniband driver that allocates a single page for hold the
pages. For 1TB memory registration, the temporary buffer would consume only
4KB, instead of 2GB.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201004154340.1080481-2-leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
2020-10-05 20:45:45 -03:00
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accounting
arch tools headers kvm s390: Sync headers with the kernel sources 2020-08-12 08:52:32 -03:00
bootconfig tools/bootconfig: Add testcase for tailing space 2020-09-21 21:57:12 -04:00
bpf tools/bpf: build: Make sure resolve_btfids cleans up after itself 2020-09-01 18:04:15 +02:00
build perf build-ids: Fall back to debuginfod query if debuginfo not found 2020-08-14 09:51:14 -03:00
cgroup tools/cgroup: add memcg_slabinfo.py tool 2020-08-07 11:33:25 -07:00
debugging
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio tools: gpio: fix spurious close warning in gpio-event-mon 2020-07-12 10:22:01 +02:00
hv tools: hv: change http to https in hv_kvp_daemon.c 2020-07-06 10:46:23 +00:00
iio
include tools headers UAPI: update linux/in.h copy 2020-09-14 19:06:41 -03:00
io_uring tools/io_uring: fix compile breakage 2020-09-21 07:50:58 -06:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2020-09-15 19:26:21 -07:00
memory-model These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
nfsd
objtool objtool: Fix noreturn detection for ignored functions 2020-09-18 19:37:51 +02:00
pci
pcmcia
perf perf stat: Fix the ratio comments of miss-events 2020-09-16 10:54:02 -03:00
power ACPI updates for 5.9-rc1 2020-08-03 20:37:22 -07:00
scripts
spi spi: tools: Make default_tx/rx and input_tx static 2020-06-11 16:27:24 +01:00
testing lib/scatterlist: Add support in dynamic allocation of SG table from pages 2020-10-05 20:45:45 -03:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb tools: usb: move to tools buildsystem 2020-08-19 14:11:44 +02:00
virtio virtio: fixes, features 2020-08-11 14:34:17 -07:00
vm tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line 2020-06-03 20:09:49 -07:00
wmi
Makefile bpf: Compile resolve_btfids tool at kernel compilation start 2020-07-13 10:42:02 -07:00