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Commit 943e942e authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe Committed by Christoph Hellwig
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nvme-pci: limit max IO size and segments to avoid high order allocations



nvme requires an sg table allocation for each request. If the request
is large, then the allocation can become quite large. For instance,
with our default software settings of 1280KB IO size, we'll need
10248 bytes of sg table. That turns into a 2nd order allocation,
which we can't always guarantee. If we fail the allocation, blk-mq
will retry it later. But there's no guarantee that we'll EVER be
able to allocate that much contigious memory.

Limit the IO size such that we never need more than a single page
of memory. That's a lot faster and more reliable. Then back that
allocation with a mempool, so that we know we'll always be able
to succeed the allocation at some point.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: default avatarKeith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent 9f9cafc1
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