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From: Gi-Oh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	hch@infradead.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
	dsterba@suse.cz, ying.huang@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	darrick.wong@oracle.com, colyli@suse.de,
	Filipe Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>,
	rdunlap@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 00/30] block: support multipage bvec
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:40:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJX1YtbmOhXh7rfb72hY=d+EumOfacqCxUY_8t0u39+0R4emcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180621011656.GA15427@ming.t460p>

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 3:17 AM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 02:59:19PM +0200, Gi-Oh Kim wrote:
>> >
>> > - bio size can be increased and it should improve some high-bandwidth IO
>> > case in theory[4].
>> >
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to report your patch set works well on my system based on v4.14.48.
>> I thought the multipage bvec could improve the performance of my system.
>> (FYI, my system has v4.14.48 and provides KVM-base virtualization service.)
>
> Thanks for your test!
>
>>
>> So I did back-porting your patches to v4.14.48.
>> It has done without any serious problem.
>> I only needed to cherry-pick "blk-merge: compute
>> bio->bi_seg_front_size efficiently" and
>> "block: move bio_alloc_pages() to bcache" patches before back-porting
>> to prevent conflicts.
>
> Not sure I understand your point, you have to backport all patches.

Never mind.
I just meant I did backporting for myself and it is still working well.

>
> At least now, BIO_MAX_PAGES can be fixed as 256 in case of CONFIG_THP_SWAP,
> otherwise 2 pages may be allocated for holding the bvec table, so tests
> in case of THP_SWAP may be improved.
>
> Also filesystem may support IO to/from THP, and multipage bvec should
> improve this case too.

OK, I got it.
I will find something to use THP_SWAP and run the performance test with it.
Thank you ;-)


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      reply	other threads:[~2018-06-21  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-09 12:29 [PATCH V6 00/30] block: support multipage bvec Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 01/30] block: simplify bio_check_pages_dirty Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 02/30] block: bio_set_pages_dirty can't see NULL bv_page in a valid bio_vec Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 03/30] block: use bio_add_page in bio_iov_iter_get_pages Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 04/30] block: introduce multipage page bvec helpers Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 05/30] block: introduce bio_for_each_chunk() Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 06/30] block: use bio_for_each_chunk() to compute multipage bvec count Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 07/30] block: use bio_for_each_chunk() to map sg Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 08/30] block: introduce chunk_last_segment() Ming Lei
2018-06-11 17:19   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-12  3:24     ` Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 09/30] fs/buffer.c: use bvec iterator to truncate the bio Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 10/30] btrfs: use chunk_last_segment to get bio's last page Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 11/30] block: implement bio_pages_all() via bio_for_each_segment_all() Ming Lei
2018-06-13 14:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-14  1:23     ` Ming Lei
2018-06-14  6:20       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 12/30] block: introduce bio_chunks() Ming Lei
2018-06-13 14:47   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-13 14:57     ` Kent Overstreet
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 13/30] block: introduce rq_for_each_chunk() Ming Lei
2018-06-13 14:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-14  1:52     ` Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 14/30] block: loop: pass multipage chunks to iov_iter Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:29 ` [PATCH V6 15/30] block: introduce bio_clone_chunk_bioset() Ming Lei
2018-06-13 14:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-14  2:01     ` Ming Lei
2018-06-14  6:39       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-14  7:28         ` Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 16/30] dm: clone bio via bio_clone_chunk_bioset Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 17/30] block: introduce bio_for_each_chunk_all and bio_for_each_chunk_segment_all Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 18/30] block: convert to bio_for_each_chunk_segment_all() Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 19/30] md/dm/bcache: conver to bio_for_each_chunk_segment_all and bio_for_each_chunk_all Ming Lei
2018-06-10 12:38   ` Coly Li
2018-06-13 14:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 20/30] fs: conver to bio_for_each_chunk_segment_all() Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 21/30] btrfs: conver to bio_for_each_chunk_segment_all Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 22/30] ext4: " Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 23/30] f2fs: " Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 24/30] xfs: " Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 25/30] exofs: " Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 26/30] gfs2: " Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 27/30] block: kill bio_for_each_segment_all() Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 28/30] block: enable multipage bvecs Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 29/30] block: always define BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256 Ming Lei
2018-06-09 12:30 ` [PATCH V6 30/30] block: document usage of bio iterator helpers Ming Lei
2018-06-15 15:43   ` Gi-Oh Kim
2018-06-11 16:48 ` [PATCH V6 00/30] block: support multipage bvec Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-12  3:42   ` Ming Lei
2018-06-13 14:42     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-14  1:18       ` Ming Lei
2018-06-14  6:18         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-13 14:59 ` Kent Overstreet
2018-06-14  1:20   ` Ming Lei
2018-06-15 12:59 ` Gi-Oh Kim
2018-06-21  1:17   ` Ming Lei
2018-06-21  8:40     ` Gi-Oh Kim [this message]

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