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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 04/13] blk: use non-rescuing bioset for q->bio_split.
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 14:38:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <149776073762.23258.10105627316695148099.stgit@noble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <149776047907.23258.8058071140236879834.stgit@noble>

A rescuing bioset is only useful if there might be bios from
that same bioset on the bio_list_on_stack queue at a time
when bio_alloc_bioset() is called.  This never applies to
q->bio_split.

Allocations from q->bio_split are only ever made from
blk_queue_split() which is only ever called early in each of
various make_request_fn()s.  The original bio (call this A)
is then passed to generic_make_request() and is placed on
the bio_list_on_stack queue, and the bio that was allocated
from q->bio_split (B) is processed.

The processing of this may cause other bios to be passed to
generic_make_request() or may even cause the bio B itself to
be passed, possible after some prefix has been split off
(using some other bioset).

generic_make_request() now guarantees that all of these bios
(B and dependants) will be fully processed before the tail
of the original bio A gets handled.  None of these early bios
can possible trigger an allocation from the original
q->bio_split as they are either too small to require
splitting or (more likely) are destined for a different queue.

The next time that the original q->bio_split might be used
by this thread is when A is processed again, as it might
still be too big to handle directly.  By this time there
cannot be any other bios allocated from q->bio_split in the
generic_make_request() queue.  So no rescuing will ever be
needed.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
---
 block/blk-core.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 9bd10c46a538..62cf92550512 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -790,8 +790,7 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_node(gfp_t gfp_mask, int node_id)
 	if (q->id < 0)
 		goto fail_q;
 
-	q->bio_split = bioset_create(BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0, (BIOSET_NEED_BVECS |
-							BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER));
+	q->bio_split = bioset_create(BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0, BIOSET_NEED_BVECS);
 	if (!q->bio_split)
 		goto fail_id;
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-18  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-18  4:38 [PATCH 00/13] block: assorted cleanup for bio splitting and cloning NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 03/13] blk: make the bioset rescue_workqueue optional NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 01/13] blk: remove bio_set arg from blk_queue_split() NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 02/13] blk: replace bioset_create_nobvec() with a flags arg to bioset_create() NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 06/13] rbd: use bio_clone_fast() instead of bio_clone() NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 08/13] pktcdvd: " NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 05/13] block: Improvements to bounce-buffer handling NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 09/13] lightnvm/pblk-read: use bio_clone_fast() NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 07/13] drbd: use bio_clone_fast() instead of bio_clone() NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 11/13] bcache: use kmalloc to allocate bio in bch_data_verify() NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 12/13] block: remove bio_clone() and all references NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 13/13] block: don't check for BIO_MAX_PAGES in blk_bio_segment_split() NeilBrown
2017-06-18  4:38 ` [PATCH 10/13] xen-blkfront: remove bio splitting NeilBrown
2017-06-18 18:41 ` [PATCH 00/13] block: assorted cleanup for bio splitting and cloning Jens Axboe
2017-06-18 21:36   ` NeilBrown
2017-11-20 16:43     ` Mike Snitzer
2017-11-21  0:34       ` [dm-devel] " NeilBrown
2017-11-21  1:35         ` Mike Snitzer
2017-11-21 12:10           ` Mike Snitzer
2017-11-21 12:43             ` Mike Snitzer
2017-11-21 19:47               ` new patchset to eliminate DM's use of BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER [was: Re: [PATCH 00/13] block: assorted cleanup for bio splitting and cloning.] Mike Snitzer
2017-11-21 21:23                 ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2017-11-21 22:51                   ` new patchset to eliminate DM's use of BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER Mike Snitzer
2017-11-22  1:21                     ` Mikulas Patocka
2017-11-22  2:32                       ` Mike Snitzer
2017-11-22  4:00                       ` [dm-devel] " NeilBrown
2017-11-22  4:28                         ` Mike Snitzer
2017-11-22 21:18                           ` Mike Snitzer
2017-11-22 18:24                         ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2017-11-22 18:49                           ` Mike Snitzer
2017-11-23  5:12                           ` [dm-devel] " NeilBrown
2017-11-23 22:52                           ` [PATCH] dm: use cloned bio as head, not remainder, in __split_and_process_bio() NeilBrown
2017-11-27 14:23                             ` Mike Snitzer
2017-11-28 22:18                               ` [dm-devel] " NeilBrown
2017-11-21 23:03                   ` [dm-devel] new patchset to eliminate DM's use of BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER [was: Re: [PATCH 00/13] block: assorted cleanup for bio splitting and cloning.] NeilBrown
2017-11-21 19:44             ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 00/13] block: assorted cleanup for bio splitting and cloning NeilBrown
2017-11-21 19:50               ` Mike Snitzer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-05-02  3:42 NeilBrown
2017-05-02  3:42 ` [PATCH 04/13] blk: use non-rescuing bioset for q->bio_split NeilBrown
2017-05-02 11:54   ` Ming Lei

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