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| author | Ohad Sharabi <osharabi@habana.ai> | 2022-02-14 14:22:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org> | 2022-02-28 13:22:05 +0100 |
| commit | f23f280277d5a701de99c6652623b6bf8801c534 (patch) | |
| tree | f6cf386134d18b17470c3dbf905950a1541c780b /include/uapi/misc | |
| parent | habanalabs: use kernel-doc for memory ioctl documentation (diff) | |
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habanalabs: allow user to set allocation page size
In future ASICs the MMU will be able to work with multiple page sizes,
thus a new flag is added to allow the user to set the requested page
size.
This flag is added since the whole DRAM is allocated for the user and
the user also should be familiar with the memory usage use case.
As such, the user may choose to "over allocate" memory in favor of
performance (for instance- large page allocations covers more memory
in less TLB entries).
For example: say available page sizes are of 1MB and 32MB. If user
wants to allocate 40MB the user can either set page size to 1MB and
allocate the exact amount of memory (but will result in 40 TLB entries)
or the user can use 32MB pages, "waste" 8MB of physical memory but
occupy only 2 TLB entries.
Note that this feature will be available only to ASIC that supports
multiple DRAM page sizes.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Sharabi <osharabi@habana.ai>
Reviewed-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/misc/habanalabs.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/misc/habanalabs.h b/include/uapi/misc/habanalabs.h index a2a953a91b5e..1d6b4f0c4159 100644 --- a/include/uapi/misc/habanalabs.h +++ b/include/uapi/misc/habanalabs.h @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note * - * Copyright 2016-2021 HabanaLabs, Ltd. + * Copyright 2016-2022 HabanaLabs, Ltd. * All Rights Reserved. * */ @@ -1130,9 +1130,12 @@ struct hl_mem_in { /** * structure for device memory allocation (used with the HL_MEM_OP_ALLOC op) * @mem_size: memory size to allocate + * @page_size: page size to use on allocation. when the value is 0 the default page + * size will be taken. */ struct { __u64 mem_size; + __u64 page_size; } alloc; /** |