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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] powerpc/kernel/iommu: Use largepool as a last
 resort when !largealloc
From:   Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@gmail.com>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
        Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>,
        Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@gmail.com>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 03:50:44 -0300
In-Reply-To: <20210318174414.684630-2-leobras.c@gmail.com>
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Hello,

FYI: This patch was reviewed when it was part of another patchset:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20200817234033.442511-4-leobras.c@gmail.com/


On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 14:44 -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> As of today, doing iommu_range_alloc() only for !largealloc (npages <= 15)
> will only be able to use 3/4 of the available pages, given pages on
> largepool  not being available for !largealloc.
> 
> This could mean some drivers not being able to fully use all the available
> pages for the DMA window.
> 
> Add pages on largepool as a last resort for !largealloc, making all pages
> of the DMA window available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
> index 3329ef045805..ae6ad8dca605 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
> @@ -255,6 +255,15 @@ static unsigned long iommu_range_alloc(struct device *dev,
>  			pass++;
>  			goto again;
>  
> 
> +		} else if (pass == tbl->nr_pools + 1) {
> +			/* Last resort: try largepool */
> +			spin_unlock(&pool->lock);
> +			pool = &tbl->large_pool;
> +			spin_lock(&pool->lock);
> +			pool->hint = pool->start;
> +			pass++;
> +			goto again;
> +
>  		} else {
>  			/* Give up */
>  			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&(pool->lock), flags);