On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:43:25AM -0500, Tony Battersby wrote: > dma_pool_alloc() scales poorly when allocating a large number of pages > because it does a linear scan of all previously-allocated pages before > allocating a new one. Improve its scalability by maintaining a separate > list of pages that have free blocks ready to (re)allocate. In big O > notation, this improves the algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n). > > Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
