linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] blk-flush: count inflight flush

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Message-ID: <ZKWH5ANh/hq3Eyn0@ovpn-8-34.pek2.redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 5 Jul 2023 23:10:28 +0800
From:   Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
To:     chengming.zhou@...ux.dev
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, hch@....de, tj@...nel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] blk-flush: count inflight flush_data requests

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 07:03:57PM +0800, chengming.zhou@...ux.dev wrote:
> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
> 
> The flush state machine use a double list to link all inflight
> flush_data requests, to avoid issuing separate post-flushes for
> these flush_data requests which shared PREFLUSH.
> 
> So we can't reuse rq->queuelist, this is why we need rq->flush.list
> 
> In preparation of the next patch that reuse rq->queuelist for flush
> state machine, we change the double linked list to unsigned long
> counter, which count all inflight flush_data requests.
> 
> This is ok since we only need to know if there is any inflight
> flush_data request, so unsigned long counter is good.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
> ---
>  block/blk-flush.c | 9 +++++----
>  block/blk.h       | 5 ++---
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
> index dba392cf22be..bb7adfc2a5da 100644
> --- a/block/blk-flush.c
> +++ b/block/blk-flush.c
> @@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ static void blk_flush_complete_seq(struct request *rq,
>  		break;
>  
>  	case REQ_FSEQ_DATA:
> -		list_move_tail(&rq->flush.list, &fq->flush_data_in_flight);
> +		list_del_init(&rq->flush.list);
> +		fq->flush_data_in_flight++;
>  		spin_lock(&q->requeue_lock);
>  		list_add_tail(&rq->queuelist, &q->flush_list);
>  		spin_unlock(&q->requeue_lock);
> @@ -299,7 +300,7 @@ static void blk_kick_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct blk_flush_queue *fq,
>  		return;
>  
>  	/* C2 and C3 */
> -	if (!list_empty(&fq->flush_data_in_flight) &&
> +	if (fq->flush_data_in_flight &&
>  	    time_before(jiffies,
>  			fq->flush_pending_since + FLUSH_PENDING_TIMEOUT))
>  		return;
> @@ -374,6 +375,7 @@ static enum rq_end_io_ret mq_flush_data_end_io(struct request *rq,
>  	 * the comment in flush_end_io().
>  	 */
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&fq->mq_flush_lock, flags);
> +	fq->flush_data_in_flight--;
>  	blk_flush_complete_seq(rq, fq, REQ_FSEQ_DATA, error);
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fq->mq_flush_lock, flags);
>  
> @@ -445,7 +447,7 @@ bool blk_insert_flush(struct request *rq)
>  		blk_rq_init_flush(rq);
>  		rq->flush.seq |= REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH;
>  		spin_lock_irq(&fq->mq_flush_lock);
> -		list_move_tail(&rq->flush.list, &fq->flush_data_in_flight);
> +		fq->flush_data_in_flight++;
>  		spin_unlock_irq(&fq->mq_flush_lock);
>  		return false;
>  	default:
> @@ -496,7 +498,6 @@ struct blk_flush_queue *blk_alloc_flush_queue(int node, int cmd_size,
>  
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fq->flush_queue[0]);
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fq->flush_queue[1]);
> -	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fq->flush_data_in_flight);
>  
>  	return fq;
>  
> diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
> index 608c5dcc516b..686712e13835 100644
> --- a/block/blk.h
> +++ b/block/blk.h
> @@ -15,15 +15,14 @@ struct elevator_type;
>  extern struct dentry *blk_debugfs_root;
>  
>  struct blk_flush_queue {
> +	spinlock_t		mq_flush_lock;
>  	unsigned int		flush_pending_idx:1;
>  	unsigned int		flush_running_idx:1;
>  	blk_status_t 		rq_status;
>  	unsigned long		flush_pending_since;
>  	struct list_head	flush_queue[2];
> -	struct list_head	flush_data_in_flight;
> +	unsigned long		flush_data_in_flight;
>  	struct request		*flush_rq;
> -
> -	spinlock_t		mq_flush_lock;

Looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>

Thanks,
Ming