Hi Ricardo,
I messed up one thing in my initial reply, sorry :(
And two additional nitpicks, while we're at it.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:02:33PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Most DMA engines have limitations regarding the number of DMA segments
> (sg-buffers) that they can handle. Videobuffers can easily spread
> through houndreds of pages.
>
> In the previous aproach, the pages were allocated individually, this
> could led to the creation houndreds of dma segments (sg-buffers) that
> could not be handled by some DMA engines.
s/houndreds/hundreds/
>
> This patch tries to minimize the number of DMA segments by using
> alloc_pages. In the worst case it will behave as before, but most
> of the times it will reduce the number of dma segments
>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.riba...@gmail.com>
With those changes you can add:
Reviewed-by: Andre Heider <a.hei...@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-sg.c | 60
> +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-sg.c
> b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-sg.c
> index 16ae3dc..c053605 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-sg.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-sg.c
> @@ -42,10 +42,55 @@ struct vb2_dma_sg_buf {
>
> static void vb2_dma_sg_put(void *buf_priv);
>
> +static int vb2_dma_sg_alloc_compacted(struct vb2_dma_sg_buf *buf,
> + gfp_t gfp_flags)
> +{
> + unsigned int last_page = 0;
> + int size = buf->sg_desc.size;
> +
> + while (size > 0) {
> + struct page *pages;
> + int order;
> + int i;
> +
> + order = get_order(size);
> + /* Dont over allocate*/
> + if ((PAGE_SIZE << order) > size)
> + order--;
> +
> + pages = NULL;
> + while (!pages) {
> + pages = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO |
> + __GFP_NOWARN | gfp_flags, order);
> + if (pages)
> + break;
> +
> + if (order == 0)
> + while (last_page--) {
> + __free_page(buf->pages[last_page]);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> + order--;
> + }
> +
> + split_page(pages, order);
> + for (i = 0; i < (1<<order); i++) {
whitespace nit: "(1 << order)"
> + buf->pages[last_page] = pages[i];
My fault, it should read:
buf->pages[last_page] = &pages[i];
> + sg_set_page(&buf->sg_desc.sglist[last_page],
> + buf->pages[last_page], PAGE_SIZE, 0);
> + last_page++;
> + }
> +
> + size -= PAGE_SIZE << order;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> static void *vb2_dma_sg_alloc(void *alloc_ctx, unsigned long size, gfp_t
> gfp_flags)
> {
> struct vb2_dma_sg_buf *buf;
> - int i;
> + int ret;
>
> buf = kzalloc(sizeof *buf, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!buf)
> @@ -69,14 +114,9 @@ static void *vb2_dma_sg_alloc(void *alloc_ctx, unsigned
> long size, gfp_t gfp_fla
> if (!buf->pages)
> goto fail_pages_array_alloc;
>
> - for (i = 0; i < buf->sg_desc.num_pages; ++i) {
> - buf->pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO |
> - __GFP_NOWARN | gfp_flags);
> - if (NULL == buf->pages[i])
> - goto fail_pages_alloc;
> - sg_set_page(&buf->sg_desc.sglist[i],
> - buf->pages[i], PAGE_SIZE, 0);
> - }
> + ret = vb2_dma_sg_alloc_compacted(buf, gfp_flags);
> + if (ret)
> + goto fail_pages_alloc;
>
> buf->handler.refcount = &buf->refcount;
> buf->handler.put = vb2_dma_sg_put;
> @@ -89,8 +129,6 @@ static void *vb2_dma_sg_alloc(void *alloc_ctx, unsigned
> long size, gfp_t gfp_fla
> return buf;
>
> fail_pages_alloc:
> - while (--i >= 0)
> - __free_page(buf->pages[i]);
> kfree(buf->pages);
>
> fail_pages_array_alloc:
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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