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[V11,02/19] block: introduce multi-page bvec helpers

Message ID 20181121032327.8434-3-ming.lei@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series block: support multi-page bvec | expand

Commit Message

Ming Lei Nov. 21, 2018, 3:23 a.m. UTC 
This patch introduces helpers of 'segment_iter_*' for multipage
bvec support.

The introduced helpers treate one bvec as real multi-page segment,
which may include more than one pages.

The existed helpers of bvec_iter_* are interfaces for supporting current
bvec iterator which is thought as single-page by drivers, fs, dm and
etc. These introduced helpers will build single-page bvec in flight, so
this way won't break current bio/bvec users, which needn't any change.

Follows some multi-page bvec background:

- bvecs stored in bio->bi_io_vec is always multi-page style

- bvec(struct bio_vec) represents one physically contiguous I/O
  buffer, now the buffer may include more than one page after
  multi-page bvec is supported, and all these pages represented
  by one bvec is physically contiguous. Before multi-page bvec
  support, at most one page is included in one bvec, we call it
  single-page bvec.

- .bv_page of the bvec points to the 1st page in the multi-page bvec

- .bv_offset of the bvec is the offset of the buffer in the bvec

The effect on the current drivers/filesystem/dm/bcache/...:

- almost everyone supposes that one bvec only includes one single
  page, so we keep the sp interface not changed, for example,
  bio_for_each_segment() still returns single-page bvec

- bio_for_each_segment_all() will return single-page bvec too

- during iterating, iterator variable(struct bvec_iter) is always
  updated in multi-page bvec style, and bvec_iter_advance() is kept
  not changed

- returned(copied) single-page bvec is built in flight by bvec
  helpers from the stored multi-page bvec

Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
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 include/linux/bvec.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig Nov. 21, 2018, 1:19 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:23:10AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> This patch introduces helpers of 'segment_iter_*' for multipage
> bvec support.
> 
> The introduced helpers treate one bvec as real multi-page segment,
> which may include more than one pages.

Unless I'm missing something these bvec vs segment names are exactly
inverted vs how we use it elsewhere.

In the iterators we use segment for single-page bvec, and bvec for multi
page ones, and here it is inverse.  Please switch it around.
Ming Lei Nov. 21, 2018, 3:06 p.m. UTC | #2 
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:19:28PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:23:10AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > This patch introduces helpers of 'segment_iter_*' for multipage
> > bvec support.
> > 
> > The introduced helpers treate one bvec as real multi-page segment,
> > which may include more than one pages.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something these bvec vs segment names are exactly
> inverted vs how we use it elsewhere.
> 
> In the iterators we use segment for single-page bvec, and bvec for multi
> page ones, and here it is inverse.  Please switch it around.

bvec_iter_* is used for single-page bvec in current linus tree, and there are
lots of users now:

[linux]$ git grep -n "bvec_iter_*" ./ | wc
    191     995   13242

If we have to switch it first, it can be a big change, just wondering if Jens
is happy with that?

Thanks,
Ming
Christoph Hellwig Nov. 21, 2018, 4:08 p.m. UTC | #3 
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:06:11PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> bvec_iter_* is used for single-page bvec in current linus tree, and there are
> lots of users now:
> 
> [linux]$ git grep -n "bvec_iter_*" ./ | wc
>     191     995   13242
> 
> If we have to switch it first, it can be a big change, just wondering if Jens
> is happy with that?

Your above grep statement seems to catch every use of struct bvec_iter,
due to the *.

Most uses of bvec_iter_ are either in the block headers, or are
ceph wrappers that match the above and can easily be redefined.
Ming Lei Nov. 22, 2018, 1:09 a.m. UTC | #4 
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 05:08:11PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:06:11PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > bvec_iter_* is used for single-page bvec in current linus tree, and there are
> > lots of users now:
> > 
> > [linux]$ git grep -n "bvec_iter_*" ./ | wc
> >     191     995   13242
> > 
> > If we have to switch it first, it can be a big change, just wondering if Jens
> > is happy with that?
> 
> Your above grep statement seems to catch every use of struct bvec_iter,
> due to the *.
> 
> Most uses of bvec_iter_ are either in the block headers, or are
> ceph wrappers that match the above and can easily be redefined.

OK, looks you are right, seems not so widely used:

$ git grep -n -w -E "bvec_iter_len|bvec_iter_bvec|bvec_iter_advance|bvec_iter_page|bvec_iter_offset" ./  | wc
     36     194    2907

I will switch to that given the effected driver are only dm, nvdimm and ceph.

Thanks,
Ming
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Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/bvec.h b/include/linux/bvec.h
index 02c73c6aa805..ed90bbf4c9c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/bvec.h
+++ b/include/linux/bvec.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 
 /*
  * was unsigned short, but we might as well be ready for > 64kB I/O pages
@@ -50,16 +51,35 @@  struct bvec_iter {
  */
 #define __bvec_iter_bvec(bvec, iter)	(&(bvec)[(iter).bi_idx])
 
-#define bvec_iter_page(bvec, iter)				\
+#define segment_iter_page(bvec, iter)				\
 	(__bvec_iter_bvec((bvec), (iter))->bv_page)
 
-#define bvec_iter_len(bvec, iter)				\
+#define segment_iter_len(bvec, iter)				\
 	min((iter).bi_size,					\
 	    __bvec_iter_bvec((bvec), (iter))->bv_len - (iter).bi_bvec_done)
 
-#define bvec_iter_offset(bvec, iter)				\
+#define segment_iter_offset(bvec, iter)				\
 	(__bvec_iter_bvec((bvec), (iter))->bv_offset + (iter).bi_bvec_done)
 
+#define segment_iter_page_idx(bvec, iter)			\
+	(segment_iter_offset((bvec), (iter)) / PAGE_SIZE)
+
+/*
+ * <page, offset,length> of single-page segment.
+ *
+ * This helpers are for building single-page bvec in flight.
+ */
+#define bvec_iter_offset(bvec, iter)					\
+	(segment_iter_offset((bvec), (iter)) % PAGE_SIZE)
+
+#define bvec_iter_len(bvec, iter)					\
+	min_t(unsigned, segment_iter_len((bvec), (iter)),		\
+	      PAGE_SIZE - bvec_iter_offset((bvec), (iter)))
+
+#define bvec_iter_page(bvec, iter)					\
+	nth_page(segment_iter_page((bvec), (iter)),		\
+		 segment_iter_page_idx((bvec), (iter)))
+
 #define bvec_iter_bvec(bvec, iter)				\
 ((struct bio_vec) {						\
 	.bv_page	= bvec_iter_page((bvec), (iter)),	\