From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Isaac Manjarres <isaacmanjarres@google.com>,
Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>,
Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/15] mm, dma, arm64: Reduce ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to 8
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 19:46:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZGZyjiYl3Iyq52xq@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgm77p42Ow87pZf042+s5aC4S0N4TEPHQnrEyeg-aKtpg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:56:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:34 AM Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's the fourth version of the series reducing the kmalloc() minimum
> > alignment on arm64 to 8 (from 128).
>
> Lovely. On my M2 Macbook air, I right now have about 24MB in the
> kmalloc-128 bucket, and most of it is presumably just 16 byte
> allocations (judging by my x86-64 slabinfo).
>
> I guess it doesn't really matter when I have 16GB in the machine, but
> this has annoyed me for a while.
>
> It feels like this is ready for 6.5, no?
From an implementation approach perspective, I definitely target 6.5.
But I need help with testing this, especially the iommu bits (can buy
Robin some beers ;)).
--
Catalin
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-18 17:33 Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 01/15] mm/slab: Decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN Catalin Marinas
2023-05-19 15:49 ` Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 02/15] dma: Allow dma_get_cache_alignment() to return the smaller cache_line_size() Catalin Marinas
2023-05-20 5:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-20 6:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-20 10:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 03/15] mm/slab: Simplify create_kmalloc_cache() args and make it static Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 04/15] mm/slab: Limit kmalloc() minimum alignment to dma_get_cache_alignment() Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 05/15] drivers/base: Use ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN Catalin Marinas
2023-05-19 9:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 06/15] drivers/gpu: " Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 07/15] drivers/usb: " Catalin Marinas
2023-05-19 9:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 08/15] drivers/spi: " Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 09/15] drivers/md: " Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 10/15] arm64: Allow kmalloc() caches aligned to the smaller cache_line_size() Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 11/15] scatterlist: Add dedicated config for DMA flags Catalin Marinas
2023-05-20 5:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18 17:34 ` [PATCH v4 12/15] dma-mapping: Force bouncing if the kmalloc() size is not cache-line-aligned Catalin Marinas
2023-05-20 5:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18 17:34 ` [PATCH v4 13/15] iommu/dma: Force bouncing if the size is not cacheline-aligned Catalin Marinas
2023-05-19 12:29 ` Robin Murphy
2023-05-19 14:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2023-05-19 15:46 ` Catalin Marinas
2023-05-19 17:09 ` Robin Murphy
2023-05-22 7:27 ` Catalin Marinas
2023-05-23 15:47 ` Robin Murphy
2023-05-18 17:34 ` [PATCH v4 14/15] mm: slab: Reduce the kmalloc() minimum alignment if DMA bouncing possible Catalin Marinas
2023-05-19 11:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:34 ` [PATCH v4 15/15] arm64: Enable ARCH_WANT_KMALLOC_DMA_BOUNCE for arm64 Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 17:56 ` [PATCH v4 00/15] mm, dma, arm64: Reduce ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to 8 Linus Torvalds
2023-05-18 18:13 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-05-18 18:50 ` Catalin Marinas
2023-05-18 18:46 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
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