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Message-ID: <48CD0D62.4020303@panasas.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:10:58 +0300
From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@...jp.nec.com>
CC: jens.axboe@...cle.com, agk@...hat.com,
James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
dm-devel@...hat.com, j-nomura@...jp.nec.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] block: add request submission interface
Kiyoshi Ueda wrote:
> This patch adds blk_submit_request(), a generic request submission
> interface for request stacking drivers.
> Request-based dm will use it to submit their clones to underlying
> devices.
>
> blk_rq_check_limits() is also added because it is possible that
> the lower queue has stronger limitations than the upper queue
> if multiple drivers are stacking at request-level.
> Not only for blk_submit_request()'s internal use, the function
> will be used by request-based dm when the queue limitation is
> modified (e.g. by replacing dm's table).
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@...jp.nec.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
> ---
> block/blk-core.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 +
> 2 files changed, 83 insertions(+)
>
> Index: 2.6.27-rc6/block/blk-core.c
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6.27-rc6.orig/block/blk-core.c
> +++ 2.6.27-rc6/block/blk-core.c
> @@ -1517,6 +1517,87 @@ void submit_bio(int rw, struct bio *bio)
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(submit_bio);
>
> /**
> + * blk_rq_check_limits - Helper function to check a request for the queue limit
> + * @q: the queue
> + * @rq: the request being checked
> + *
> + * Description:
> + * @rq may have been made based on weaker limitations of upper-level queues
> + * in request stacking drivers, and it may violate the limitation of @q.
> + * Since the block layer and the underlying device driver trust @rq
> + * after it is inserted to @q, it should be checked against @q before
> + * the insertion using this generic function.
> + *
> + * This function should also be useful for request stacking drivers
> + * in some cases below, so export this fuction.
> + * Request stacking drivers like request-based dm may change the queue
> + * limits while requests are in the queue (e.g. dm's table swapping).
> + * Such request stacking drivers should check those requests agaist
> + * the new queue limits again when they dispatch those requests,
> + * although such checkings are also done against the old queue limits
> + * when submitting requests.
> + */
> +int blk_rq_check_limits(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
> +{
> + if (rq->nr_sectors > q->max_sectors ||
> + rq->data_len > q->max_hw_sectors << 9) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: over max size limit.\n", __func__);
> + return -EIO;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * queue's settings related to segment counting like q->bounce_pfn
> + * may differ from that of other stacking queues.
> + * Recalculate it to check the request correctly on this queue's
> + * limitation.
> + */
> + blk_recalc_rq_segments(rq);
> + if (rq->nr_phys_segments > q->max_phys_segments ||
> + rq->nr_hw_segments > q->max_hw_segments) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: over max segments limit.\n", __func__);
> + return -EIO;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_rq_check_limits);
> +
> +/**
> + * blk_submit_request - Helper for stacking drivers to submit a request
> + * @q: the queue to submit the request
> + * @rq: the request being queued
> + */
> +int blk_submit_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
> +{
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + if (blk_rq_check_limits(q, rq))
> + return -EIO;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
> + if (rq->rq_disk && rq->rq_disk->flags & GENHD_FL_FAIL &&
> + should_fail(&fail_make_request, blk_rq_bytes(rq)))
> + return -EIO;
> +#endif
> +
> + spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
> +
> + /*
> + * Submitting request must be dequeued before calling this function
> + * because it will be linked to another request_queue
> + */
> + BUG_ON(blk_queued_rq(rq));
> +
> + drive_stat_acct(rq, 1);
> + __elv_add_request(q, rq, ELEVATOR_INSERT_BACK, 0);
> +
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_submit_request);
> +
This looks awfully similar to blk_execute_rq_nowait With an Added
blk_rq_check_limits, minus the __generic_unplug_device() and
q->request_fn(q) calls. Perhaps the common code could be re factored
out? Also isn't block-exec.c a better file for this function?
> +/**
> * __end_that_request_first - end I/O on a request
> * @req: the request being processed
> * @error: 0 for success, < 0 for error
> Index: 2.6.27-rc6/include/linux/blkdev.h
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6.27-rc6.orig/include/linux/blkdev.h
> +++ 2.6.27-rc6/include/linux/blkdev.h
> @@ -664,6 +664,8 @@ extern void __blk_put_request(struct req
> extern struct request *blk_get_request(struct request_queue *, int, gfp_t);
> extern void blk_insert_request(struct request_queue *, struct request *, int, void *);
> extern void blk_requeue_request(struct request_queue *, struct request *);
> +extern int blk_rq_check_limits(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq);
> +extern int blk_submit_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq);
> extern void blk_plug_device(struct request_queue *);
> extern void blk_plug_device_unlocked(struct request_queue *);
> extern int blk_remove_plug(struct request_queue *);
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