linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_io: use a folio in sio_read

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Message-ID: <ZLa8EKH/C5/7L/Oq@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:21:36 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     "zhangpeng (AS)" <zhangpeng362@...wei.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com, sunnanyong@...wei.com,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_io: use a folio in sio_read_complete()

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 08:58:17PM +0800, zhangpeng (AS) wrote:
> On 2023/7/17 21:40, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 09:25:58PM +0800, Peng Zhang wrote:
> > > +++ b/mm/page_io.c
> > > @@ -406,19 +406,19 @@ static void sio_read_complete(struct kiocb *iocb, long ret)
> > >   	if (ret == sio->len) {
> > >   		for (p = 0; p < sio->pages; p++) {
> > > -			struct page *page = sio->bvec[p].bv_page;
> > > +			struct folio *folio = page_folio(sio->bvec[p].bv_page);
> > > -			SetPageUptodate(page);
> > > -			unlock_page(page);
> > > +			folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
> > > +			folio_unlock(folio);
> > >   		}
> > I'm kind of shocked this works today.  Usually bvecs coalesce adjacent
> > pages into a single entry, so you need to use a real iterator like
> > bio_for_each_folio_all() to extract individual pages from a bvec.
> > Maybe the sio bvec is constructed inefficiently.
> > 
> > I think Kent had some bvec folio iterators in progress?
> 
> I'll convert bio_first_page_all() to bio_first_folio_all() in a v2.

That isn't my point at all.  What I'm saying is that when you call a
function like bio_add_folio(), if @folio is physically adjacent to the
immediately prior folio already in the bio, it will extend the bv_len
instead of adding the new folio to the bvec.  Maybe there's nothing like
that for sio.