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Commit 24828d05 authored by Igor Konopko's avatar Igor Konopko Committed by Jens Axboe
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lightnvm: dynamic DMA pool entry size



Currently lightnvm and pblk uses single DMA pool, for which the entry
size always is equal to PAGE_SIZE. The contents of each entry allocated
from the DMA pool consists of a PPA list (8bytes * 64), leaving
56bytes * 64 space for metadata. Since the metadata field can be bigger,
such as 128 bytes, the static size does not cover this use-case.

This patch adds support for I/O metadata above 56 bytes by changing DMA
pool size based on device meta size and allows pblk to use OOB metadata
>=16B.

Reviewed-by: default avatarJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIgor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent faa79f27
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