linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make

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Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2015 22:17:43 -0700
From:	Ming Lin <mlin@...nel.org>
To:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Dongsu Park <dpark@...teo.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
	Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com>,
	drbd-user@...ts.linbit.com, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>, Jim Paris <jim@...n.com>,
	Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Ming Lin <ming.l@....samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle
 arbitrarily sized bios

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Kent Overstreet
<kent.overstreet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 04:40:06PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 09:30 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> > I'm for solution 3:
>> >
>> >  - keep blk_bio_{discard,write_same}_split, but ensure we never built
>> >    a > 4GB bio in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}.
>>
>> This has problem as I mentioned in solution 1.
>> We need to also make sure max discard size is of proper granularity.
>> See below example.
>>
>>       4G: 8388608 sectors
>> UINT_MAX: 8388607 sectors
>>
>> dm-thinp block size = default discard granularity = 128 sectors
>>
>> blkdev_issue_discard(sector=0, nr_sectors=8388608)
>>
>> 1. Only ensure bi_size not overflow
>>
>> It doesn't work.
>>
>> [start_sector, end_sector]
>> [0, 8388607]
>>     [0, 8388606], then dm-thinp splits it to 2 bios
>>         [0, 8388479]
>>         [8388480, 8388606] ---> this has problem in process_discard_bio(),
>>                                 because the discard size(7 sectors) covers less than a block(128 sectors)
>>     [8388607, 8388607] ---> same problem
>>
>> 2. Ensure bi_size not overflow and max discard size is of proper granularity
>
> Ideally we'd get upper layers out of the business of knowing about the queue
> limits at all - that was the point of the patch series, after all.
>
> Instead of using UINT_MAX, would it work to just make the max 1 << 31 sectors?'

1 << 31 = 2G bytes = 0x400000 sectors.

Yes, that works as long as it's multiple of granularity.
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