nvmet-loop: Avoid preallocating big SGL for data
nvme_loop_create_io_queues() preallocates a big buffer for the IO SGL based on SG_CHUNK_SIZE. Modern DMA engines are often capable of dealing with very big segments so the SG_CHUNK_SIZE is often too big. SG_CHUNK_SIZE results in a static 4KB SGL allocation per command. If a controller has lots of deep queues, preallocation for the sg list can consume substantial amounts of memory. For nvmet-loop, nr_hw_queues can be 128 and each queue's depth 128. This means the resulting preallocation for the data SGL is 128*128*4K = 64MB per controller. Switch to runtime allocation for SGL for lists longer than 2 entries. This is the approach used by NVMe PCI so it should be reasonable for NVMeOF as well. Runtime SGL allocation has always been the case for the legacy I/O path so this is nothing new. Tested-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
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