md/raid5: let multiple devices of stripe_head share page
In current implementation, grow_buffers() uses alloc_page() to allocate the buffers for each stripe_head, i.e. allocate a page for each dev[i] in stripe_head. After setting stripe_size as a configurable value by writing sysfs entry, it means that we always allocate 64K buffers, but just use 4K of them when stripe_size is 4K in 64KB arm64. To avoid wasting memory, we try to let multiple sh->dev share one real page. That means, multiple sh->dev[i].page will point to the only page with different offset. Example of 64K PAGE_SIZE and 4K stripe_size as following: 64K PAGE_SIZE +---+---+---+---+------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+------------------------------+ ^ ^ ^ ^ | | | +----------------------------+ | | | | | | +-------------------+ | | | | | | +----------+ | | | | | | +-+ | | | | | | | +-----+-----+------+-----+------+-----+------+------+ sh | offset(0) | offset(4K) | offset(8K) | offset(12K) | + +-----------+------------+------------+-------------+ +----> dev[0].page dev[1].page dev[2].page dev[3].page A new 'pages' array will be added into stripe_head to record shared page used by this stripe_head. Allocate them when grow_buffers() and free them when shrink_buffers(). After trying to share page, the users of sh->dev[i].page need to take care of the related page offset: page of issued bio and page passed to xor compution functions. But thanks for previous different page offset supported. Here, we just need to set correct dev[i].offset. Signed-off-by: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
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