linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 46/60] block: deal with dirtying pages for multipage bvec

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Message-ID: <CACVXFVO62t=6y7Wg+E2mUpueErpTeQ9D+1QqO6J_nSwnBLrRLg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 1 Nov 2016 08:19:06 +0800
From:   Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 46/60] block: deal with dirtying pages for multipage bvec

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 04:08:45PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> In bio_check_pages_dirty(), bvec->bv_page is used as flag
>> for marking if the page has been dirtied & released, and if
>> no, it will be dirtied in deferred workqueue.
>>
>> With multipage bvec, we can't do that any more, so change
>> the logic into checking all pages in one mp bvec, and only
>> release all these pages if all are dirtied, otherwise dirty
>> them all in deferred wrokqueue.
>
> Just defer the whole bio to the workqueue if we need to redirty any,
> that avoids having all these complex iteratations.

For dio READ, it is always dirtied before submitting, so there should be
little possibity that pages in the bio becomes non-dirty after completion,
it should hurt performance if each direct-read bio is deferred to the block
wq.


thanks,
Ming Lei