linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH V12 03/20] block: remove the "cluster" flag

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Date:   Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:12:56 -0800
From:   Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>
To:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>, linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org,
        Boaz Harrosh <ooo@...ctrozaur.com>,
        Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V12 03/20] block: remove the "cluster" flag

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 10:17:03AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> The cluster flag implements some very old SCSI behavior.  As far as I
> can tell the original intent was to enable or disable any kind of
> segment merging.  But the actually visible effect to the LLDD is that
> it limits each segments to be inside a single page, which we can
> also affect by setting the maximum segment size and the segment
> boundary.

Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>

One comment typo below.

> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> Replace virt boundary with segment boundary limit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
> ---
>  block/blk-merge.c       | 20 ++++++++------------
>  block/blk-settings.c    |  3 ---
>  block/blk-sysfs.c       |  5 +----
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>  include/linux/blkdev.h  |  6 ------
>  5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 

[snip]

> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> index 0df15cb738d2..78d6d05992b0 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> @@ -1810,6 +1810,8 @@ static int scsi_map_queues(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set)
>  void __scsi_init_queue(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct request_queue *q)
>  {
>  	struct device *dev = shost->dma_dev;
> +	unsigned max_segment_size = dma_get_max_seg_size(dev);
> +	unsigned long segment_boundary = shost->dma_boundary;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * this limit is imposed by hardware restrictions
> @@ -1828,13 +1830,23 @@ void __scsi_init_queue(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct request_queue *q)
>  	blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(q, shost->max_sectors);
>  	if (shost->unchecked_isa_dma)
>  		blk_queue_bounce_limit(q, BLK_BOUNCE_ISA);
> -	blk_queue_segment_boundary(q, shost->dma_boundary);
>  	dma_set_seg_boundary(dev, shost->dma_boundary);
>  
> -	blk_queue_max_segment_size(q, dma_get_max_seg_size(dev));
> +	/*
> +	 * Clustering is a really old concept from the stone age of Linux
> +	 * SCSI support.  But the basic idea is that we never give the
> +	 * driver a segment that spans multiple pages.  For that we need
> +	 * to limit the segment size, and set the segment boundary so that
> +	 * we never merge a second segment which is no page aligned.

Typo, "which is not page aligned".