linux-kernel - [PATCH 08/11] xen-blkfront: remove bio splitting.

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Message-ID: <149266672984.27388.11947154313852245586.stgit@noble>
Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:38:50 +1000
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        "Roger Pau Monne" <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: [PATCH 08/11] xen-blkfront: remove bio splitting.

bios that are re-submitted will pass through blk_queue_split() when
blk_queue_bio() is called, and this will split the bio if necessary.
There is no longer any need to do this splitting in xen-blkfront.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |   54 ++----------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index abed296ce605..b8930d9b7102 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -110,11 +110,6 @@ struct blk_shadow {
 	unsigned long associated_id;
 };
 
-struct split_bio {
-	struct bio *bio;
-	atomic_t pending;
-};
-
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(blkfront_mutex);
 static const struct block_device_operations xlvbd_block_fops;
 
@@ -1982,28 +1977,13 @@ static int blkfront_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void split_bio_end(struct bio *bio)
-{
-	struct split_bio *split_bio = bio->bi_private;
-
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&split_bio->pending)) {
-		split_bio->bio->bi_phys_segments = 0;
-		split_bio->bio->bi_error = bio->bi_error;
-		bio_endio(split_bio->bio);
-		kfree(split_bio);
-	}
-	bio_put(bio);
-}
-
 static int blkif_recover(struct blkfront_info *info)
 {
-	unsigned int i, r_index;
+	unsigned int r_index;
 	struct request *req, *n;
 	int rc;
-	struct bio *bio, *cloned_bio;
-	unsigned int segs, offset;
-	int pending, size;
-	struct split_bio *split_bio;
+	struct bio *bio;
+	unsigned int segs;
 
 	blkfront_gather_backend_features(info);
 	/* Reset limits changed by blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues(). */
@@ -2042,34 +2022,6 @@ static int blkif_recover(struct blkfront_info *info)
 
 	while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&info->bio_list)) != NULL) {
 		/* Traverse the list of pending bios and re-queue them */
-		if (bio_segments(bio) > segs) {
-			/*
-			 * This bio has more segments than what we can
-			 * handle, we have to split it.
-			 */
-			pending = (bio_segments(bio) + segs - 1) / segs;
-			split_bio = kzalloc(sizeof(*split_bio), GFP_NOIO);
-			BUG_ON(split_bio == NULL);
-			atomic_set(&split_bio->pending, pending);
-			split_bio->bio = bio;
-			for (i = 0; i < pending; i++) {
-				offset = (i * segs * XEN_PAGE_SIZE) >> 9;
-				size = min((unsigned int)(segs * XEN_PAGE_SIZE) >> 9,
-					   (unsigned int)bio_sectors(bio) - offset);
-				cloned_bio = bio_clone(bio, GFP_NOIO);
-				BUG_ON(cloned_bio == NULL);
-				bio_trim(cloned_bio, offset, size);
-				cloned_bio->bi_private = split_bio;
-				cloned_bio->bi_end_io = split_bio_end;
-				submit_bio(cloned_bio);
-			}
-			/*
-			 * Now we have to wait for all those smaller bios to
-			 * end, so we can also end the "parent" bio.
-			 */
-			continue;
-		}
-		/* We don't need to split this bio */
 		submit_bio(bio);
 	}