Alex Waterman 641444188f gpu: nvgpu: bitmap allocator optimization ...

Add an optimization to the bitmap allocator for handling sequences of
allocations. A common pattern of allocs from the priv_cmdbuf is to do
many allocs and then many frees. In such cases it makes sense to store
the last allocation offset and start searching for the next alloc from
there. For such a pattern we know that the previous bits are already
allocated so it doesn't make sense to search them unless we have to.
Obviously, if there's no space found ahead of the precious alloc's block
then we fall back to the remaining space.

In random allocation patterns this optimization should not have any
negative affects. It merely shifts the start point for searching for
allocs but assuming each bit has an equal probability of being free the
start location does not matter.

Bug 1799159

Signed-off-by: Alex Waterman <alexw@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-on: http://git-master/r/1205958
(cherry picked from commit 759c583962d6d57cb8cb073ccdbfcfc6db4c1e18)
Change-Id: I267ef6fa155ff15d6ebfc76dc1abafd9aa1f44df
Reviewed-on: http://git-master/r/1227923
GVS: Gerrit_Virtual_Submit
Reviewed-by: Terje Bergstrom <tbergstrom@nvidia.com>

2016-10-18 12:24:26 -07:00

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gpu: nvgpu: bitmap allocator optimization

2016-10-18 12:24:26 -07:00