Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:11:40 -0800 | From | Omar Sandoval <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V10 17/19] block: don't use bio->bi_vcnt to figure out segment number |
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:53:04PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > It is wrong to use bio->bi_vcnt to figure out how many segments > there are in the bio even though CLONED flag isn't set on this bio, > because this bio may be splitted or advanced. > > So always use bio_segments() in blk_recount_segments(), and it shouldn't > cause any performance loss now because the physical segment number is figured > out in blk_queue_split() and BIO_SEG_VALID is set meantime since > bdced438acd83ad83a6c ("block: setup bi_phys_segments after splitting"). > > Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> > Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> > Fixes: 7f60dcaaf91 ("block: blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments()")
From what I can tell, the problem was originally introduced by 76d8137a3113 ("blk-merge: recaculate segment if it isn't less than max segments")
Is that right?
> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> > Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> > Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org > Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> > Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> > Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> > Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> > Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> > Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com> > Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> > Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> > --- > block/blk-merge.c | 8 +------- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c > index cb9f49bcfd36..153a659fde74 100644 > --- a/block/blk-merge.c > +++ b/block/blk-merge.c > @@ -429,13 +429,7 @@ void blk_recalc_rq_segments(struct request *rq) > > void blk_recount_segments(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio) > { > - unsigned short seg_cnt; > - > - /* estimate segment number by bi_vcnt for non-cloned bio */ > - if (bio_flagged(bio, BIO_CLONED)) > - seg_cnt = bio_segments(bio); > - else > - seg_cnt = bio->bi_vcnt; > + unsigned short seg_cnt = bio_segments(bio); > > if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE, &q->queue_flags) && > (seg_cnt < queue_max_segments(q))) > -- > 2.9.5 >
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