scatterlist: allow chaining to preallocated chunks

Blk-mq drivers usually preallocate their S/G list as part of the request,
but if we want to support the very large S/G lists currently supported by
the SCSI code that would tie up a lot of memory in the preallocated request
pool.  Add support to the scatterlist code so that it can initialize a
S/G list that uses a preallocated first chunks and dynamically allocated
additional chunks.  That way the scsi-mq code can preallocate a first
page worth of S/G entries as part of the request, and dynamically extend
the S/G list when needed.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Webb Scales <webbnh@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Tested-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
This commit is contained in:
Christoph Hellwig
2014-04-15 14:38:31 +02:00
parent f6d47e74fc
commit c53c6d6a68
3 changed files with 27 additions and 20 deletions

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@@ -229,10 +229,10 @@ void sg_init_one(struct scatterlist *, const void *, unsigned int);
typedef struct scatterlist *(sg_alloc_fn)(unsigned int, gfp_t);
typedef void (sg_free_fn)(struct scatterlist *, unsigned int);
void __sg_free_table(struct sg_table *, unsigned int, sg_free_fn *);
void __sg_free_table(struct sg_table *, unsigned int, bool, sg_free_fn *);
void sg_free_table(struct sg_table *);
int __sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *, unsigned int, unsigned int, gfp_t,
sg_alloc_fn *);
int __sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *, unsigned int, unsigned int,
struct scatterlist *, gfp_t, sg_alloc_fn *);
int sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *, unsigned int, gfp_t);
int sg_alloc_table_from_pages(struct sg_table *sgt,
struct page **pages, unsigned int n_pages,