linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V11 14/19] block: handle non-cluster bio out of blk_bio_segment

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Message-ID: <20181122104049.GA29654@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:40:49 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>,
        linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, Boaz Harrosh <ooo@...ctrozaur.com>,
        Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V11 14/19] block: handle non-cluster bio out of
 blk_bio_segment_split

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 06:26:17PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Suppose one bio includes (pg0, 0, 512) and (pg1, 512, 512):
> 
> The split is introduced by the following code in blk_bio_segment_split():
> 
>       if (bvprvp && bvec_gap_to_prev(q, bvprvp, bv.bv_offset))
> 		  	goto split;
> 
> Without this patch, for non-cluster, the two bvecs are just in different
> segment, but still handled by one same bio. Now you convert into two bios.

Oh, true - we create new bios instead of new segments.  So I guess we
need to do something special here if we don't want to pay that overhead.

Or just look into killing the cluster setting..