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authorJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2015-01-22 12:07:58 -0700
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2015-01-29 09:25:34 -0800
commitac3dd5bd128b1d1ce2a037775766f39d06a4848a (patch)
tree9e6390eac98ffbbe5d7d82e6c585125ed9bba0cf /drivers/vlynq
parent4ca5829ac8b1297715bf609443ade2c332f3fd0c (diff)
downloadlinux-ac3dd5bd128b1d1ce2a037775766f39d06a4848a.tar.gz
NVMe: avoid kmalloc/kfree for smaller IO
Currently we allocate an nvme_iod for each IO, which holds the
sg list, prps, and other IO related info. Set a threshold of
2 pages and/or 8KB of data, below which we can just embed this
in the per-command pdu in blk-mq. For any IO at or below
NVME_INT_PAGES and NVME_INT_BYTES, we save a kmalloc and kfree.

For higher IOPS, this saves up to 1% of CPU time.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
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