linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: pblk: refactor put line fn on read completion

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Date:   Mon, 20 Aug 2018 14:27:15 +0200
From:   Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
To:     hlitz@...c.edu
Cc:     igor.j.konopko@...el.com, marcin.dziegielewski@...el.com,
        javier@...xlabs.com, hans.holmberg@...xlabs.com,
        youngtack.jin@...cuitblvd.com, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: pblk: refactor put line fn on read completion

On 08/20/2018 02:22 PM, Heiner Litz wrote:
> Consider removing the "_read", make it non-static and move the function to
> pblk-core.c as the function isn't read specific.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 1:43 PM Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io> wrote:
> 
>> The read completion path uses the put_line variable to decide whether
>> the reference on a line should be released. The function name used for
>> that is pblk_read_put_rqd_kref, which could lead one to believe that it
>> is the rqd that is releasing the reference, while it is the line
>> reference that is put.
>>
>> Rename and also split the function in two to account for either rqd or
>> single ppa callers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
>> ---
>>   drivers/lightnvm/pblk-read.c | 23 +++++++++++++----------
>>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-read.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-read.c
>> index cd2f61eed6a0..16858eaf694a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-read.c
>> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-read.c
>> @@ -165,20 +165,23 @@ static void pblk_read_check_rand(struct pblk *pblk,
>> struct nvm_rq *rqd,
>>          WARN_ONCE(j != rqd->nr_ppas, "pblk: corrupted random request\n");
>>   }
>>
>> -static void pblk_read_put_rqd_kref(struct pblk *pblk, struct nvm_rq *rqd)
>> +static void __pblk_read_put_line(struct pblk *pblk, struct ppa_addr ppa)
>>   {
>> -       struct ppa_addr *ppa_list;
>> -       int i;
>> -
>> -       ppa_list = (rqd->nr_ppas > 1) ? rqd->ppa_list : &rqd->ppa_addr;
>> -
>> -       for (i = 0; i < rqd->nr_ppas; i++) {
>> -               struct ppa_addr ppa = ppa_list[i];
>>                  struct pblk_line *line;
>>
>>                  line = &pblk->lines[pblk_ppa_to_line(ppa)];
>>                  kref_put(&line->ref, pblk_line_put_wq);
>> -       }
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void pblk_read_put_line(struct pblk *pblk, struct nvm_rq *rqd)
>> +{
>> +       struct ppa_addr *ppa_list;
>> +       int i;
>> +
>> +       ppa_list = (rqd->nr_ppas > 1) ? rqd->ppa_list : &rqd->ppa_addr;
>> +
>> +       for (i = 0; i < rqd->nr_ppas; i++)
>> +               __pblk_read_put_line(pblk, ppa_list[i]);
>>   }
>>
>>   static void pblk_end_user_read(struct bio *bio)
>> @@ -208,7 +211,7 @@ static void __pblk_end_io_read(struct pblk *pblk,
>> struct nvm_rq *rqd,
>>                  bio_put(int_bio);
>>
>>          if (put_line)
>> -               pblk_read_put_rqd_kref(pblk, rqd);
>> +               pblk_read_put_line(pblk, rqd);
>>
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_NVM_PBLK_DEBUG
>>          atomic_long_add(rqd->nr_ppas, &pblk->sync_reads);
>> --
>> 2.11.0
>>
>>
> 

Thanks Heiner. I'll send a v2.