* Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: fix single segment detection
[not found] <20190509110409.19647-1-hch@lst.de>
@ 2019-05-09 11:24 ` Ming Lei
2019-05-09 12:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ming Lei @ 2019-05-09 11:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: keith.busch, sagi, axboe, linux-nvme, linux-block, Jens Axboe
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:04:09PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> blk_rq_nr_phys_segments isn't exactly accurate at the request/bio
> level, so work around that fact with a few crude sanity checks. To
> be fixed for real in the block layer soon.
>
> Fixes: 297910571f08 ("nvme-pci: optimize mapping single segment requests using SGLs")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 10 +++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index 2a8708c9ac18..9a4253be2723 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -824,7 +824,15 @@ static blk_status_t nvme_map_data(struct nvme_dev *dev, struct request *req,
> blk_status_t ret = BLK_STS_RESOURCE;
> int nr_mapped;
>
> - if (blk_rq_nr_phys_segments(req) == 1) {
> + /*
> + * Crude hack to work around the block layer accounting for the fact
> + * that the SG mapping can merge multiple physically contigous segments
> + * in blk_rq_nr_phys_segments() despite the fact that not everyone is
> + * mapping the request to a scatterlist. To be fixed for real in the
> + * block layer eventually..
> + */
> + if (blk_rq_nr_phys_segments(req) == 1 &&
> + !req->bio->bi_next && req->bio->bi_vcnt == 1) {
> struct bio_vec bv = req_bvec(req);
I'd suggest to fix block layer instead of working around the issue here,
then any driver may benefit from the fix.
Especially checking bio->bi_vcnt is just a hack, and drivers should
never use .bi_vcnt.
Thanks,
Ming
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* Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: fix single segment detection
2019-05-09 11:24 ` [PATCH] nvme-pci: fix single segment detection Ming Lei
@ 2019-05-09 12:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-09 13:31 ` Ming Lei
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2019-05-09 12:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ming Lei
Cc: Christoph Hellwig, keith.busch, sagi, axboe, linux-nvme,
linux-block, Jens Axboe
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 07:24:12PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> I'd suggest to fix block layer instead of working around the issue here,
> then any driver may benefit from the fix.
That is my plan, and I started on it. But the fix isn't trivial, and
will probably take a while and be invasive.
> Especially checking bio->bi_vcnt is just a hack, and drivers should
> never use .bi_vcnt.
That is why it is explicitly commented as a hack. But a good enough
one to still speed up typical 4K I/Os - one a bio has been cloned
chances are very high we don't care about the fast path any more.
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* Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: fix single segment detection
2019-05-09 12:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
@ 2019-05-09 13:31 ` Ming Lei
2019-05-13 6:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ming Lei @ 2019-05-09 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: keith.busch, sagi, axboe, linux-nvme, linux-block, Jens Axboe
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 02:34:06PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 07:24:12PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > I'd suggest to fix block layer instead of working around the issue here,
> > then any driver may benefit from the fix.
>
> That is my plan, and I started on it. But the fix isn't trivial, and
> will probably take a while and be invasive.
>
> > Especially checking bio->bi_vcnt is just a hack, and drivers should
> > never use .bi_vcnt.
>
> That is why it is explicitly commented as a hack. But a good enough
> one to still speed up typical 4K I/Os - one a bio has been cloned
> chances are very high we don't care about the fast path any more.
NVMe hasn't max segment size limit, so fair enough for typical
4K IO workload:
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Thanks,
Ming
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* Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: fix single segment detection
2019-05-09 13:31 ` Ming Lei
@ 2019-05-13 6:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2019-05-13 6:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ming Lei
Cc: Christoph Hellwig, keith.busch, sagi, axboe, linux-nvme,
linux-block, Jens Axboe
So actually, after running out ways to make any of my complex block
layer fix ideas work I have a simple fix for the block layer now.
Lets see if is acceptable..
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