From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 05/12] block: add new field into 'struct bvec_iter'
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:36:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHVmGggTOkqZYOM+@T590> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210412092653.GA972763@infradead.org>
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:26:53AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I don't like where this is going.
>
> I think the model of storing the polling cookie in the bio is useful,
> but:
>
> (1) I think having this in the iter is a mess. Can you measure if
> just marking bvec_iter __packed will generate much worse code
> at all anymore? If not we can just move this into the bio
Just test with packed 'struct bvec_iter' by running io_uring/libaio over
nvme/null_blk with different bs size, not see obvious difference
compared with unpacked bvec_iter.
So will switch to packed bvec_iter in next version.
> If it really generates much worse code I think you need to pick
> a different name as as that i really confusing vs the bio field
> of the same name that is used entirely differenly. Similarly
> the bio_get_private_data and bio_set_private_data helpers are
> entirely misnamed, as the names suggest they deal with the
> bi_private field in struct bio. I actually suspect not having
> these helpers would be much preferable
OK, how about naming it as .bi_poll_data?
Thanks,
Ming
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-13 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-01 2:19 [PATCH V5 00/12] block: support bio based io polling Ming Lei
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 01/12] block: add helper of blk_queue_poll Ming Lei
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 02/12] block: add one helper to free io_context Ming Lei
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 03/12] block: create io poll context for submission and poll task Ming Lei
2021-04-12 10:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 04/12] block: add req flag of REQ_POLL_CTX Ming Lei
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 05/12] block: add new field into 'struct bvec_iter' Ming Lei
2021-04-12 9:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-13 9:36 ` Ming Lei [this message]
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 06/12] block/mq: extract one helper function polling hw queue Ming Lei
2021-04-12 9:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 07/12] block: prepare for supporting bio_list via other link Ming Lei
2021-04-12 10:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-12 11:37 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 08/12] block: use per-task poll context to implement bio based io polling Ming Lei
2021-04-12 9:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-12 10:20 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-12 10:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-12 11:42 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-12 10:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-12 10:37 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 09/12] blk-mq: limit hw queues to be polled in each blk_poll() Ming Lei
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 10/12] block: add queue_to_disk() to get gendisk from request_queue Ming Lei
2021-04-12 12:52 ` Jens Axboe
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 11/12] block: add poll_capable method to support bio-based IO polling Ming Lei
2021-04-12 9:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-14 8:38 ` JeffleXu
2021-04-14 11:24 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-15 1:34 ` JeffleXu
2021-04-15 7:43 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-15 9:21 ` JeffleXu
2021-04-15 10:06 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-15 11:21 ` JeffleXu
2021-04-15 13:08 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-16 8:00 ` [PATCH] block: introduce QUEUE_FLAG_POLL_CAP flag Jeffle Xu
2021-04-16 8:42 ` JeffleXu
2021-04-16 9:07 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-16 10:20 ` JeffleXu
2021-04-17 14:06 ` JeffleXu
2021-04-19 2:21 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-19 5:40 ` JeffleXu
2021-04-19 13:36 ` Ming Lei
2021-04-20 7:25 ` JeffleXu
2021-04-01 2:19 ` [PATCH V5 12/12] dm: support IO polling for bio-based dm device Ming Lei
2021-04-09 15:39 ` [PATCH V5 00/12] block: support bio based io polling Ming Lei
2021-04-12 9:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
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