On 05/02/2017 02:54 AM, lixi...@cmss.chinamobile.com wrote:
> From: Xiubo Li <lixi...@cmss.chinamobile.com>
> 
> For the "struct tcmu_cmd_entry" in cmd area, the minimum size
> will be sizeof(struct tcmu_cmd_entry) == 112 Bytes. And it could
> fill about (sizeof(struct rsp) - sizeof(struct req)) /
> sizeof(struct iovec) == 68 / 16 ~= 4 data regions(iov[4]) by
> default.
> 
> For most tcmu_cmds, the data block indexes allocated from the
> data area will be continuous. And for the continuous blocks they
> will be merged into the same region using only one iovec. For
> the current code, it will always allocates the same number of
> iovecs with blocks for each tcmu_cmd, and it will wastes much
> memories.
> 
> For example, when the block size is 4K and the DATA_OUT buffer
> size is 64K, and the regions needed is less than 5(on my
> environment is almost 99.7%). The current code will allocate
> about 16 iovecs, and there will be (16 - 4) * sizeof(struct
> iovec) = 192 Bytes cmd area memories wasted.
> 
> Here adds two helpers to calculate the base size and full size
> of the tcmu_cmd. And will recalculate them again when it make sure
> how many iovs is needed before insert it to cmd area.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixi...@cmss.chinamobile.com>

Looks ok to me. Thanks.

Acked-by: Mike Christie <mchri...@redhat.com>

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