linux-kernel - Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v14 03/11] block: add copy offload support

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Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2023 22:31:53 +0530
From:   Nitesh Shetty <nitheshshetty@...il.com>
To:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Cc:     Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@...sung.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@...dia.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        gost.dev@...sung.com, Anuj Gupta <anuj20.g@...sung.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, mcgrof@...nel.org, dlemoal@...nel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v14 03/11] block: add copy offload support

On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 3:10 AM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org> wrote:
>
> On 8/11/23 03:52, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
> > + * Description:
> > + *   Copy source offset to destination offset within block device, using
> > + *   device's native copy offload feature.
>
> Offloading the copy operation is not guaranteed so I think that needs to
> be reflected in the above comment.
>
Acked.
> > + *   We perform copy operation by sending 2 bio's.
> > + *   1. We take a plug and send a REQ_OP_COPY_SRC bio along with source
> > + *   sector and length. Once this bio reaches request layer, we form a
> > + *   request and wait for dst bio to arrive.
>
> What will happen if the queue depth of the request queue at the bottom
> is one?
>
For any reason if a request reaches the driver with only one of the src/dst bio,
copy will fail. This design requires only one request to do a copy,
so it should work fine.

> > +             blk_start_plug(&plug);
> > +             dst_bio = blk_next_bio(src_bio, bdev, 0, REQ_OP_COPY_DST, gfp);
>
> blk_next_bio() can return NULL so its return value should be checked.
>
Acked.

Thank you,
Nitesh Shetty