Re: [PATCH V11 03/19] block: introduce bio_for_each_bvec()

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 05:10:25PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> No - I think we can always use the code without any segment in
> bvec_iter_advance.  Because bvec_iter_advance only operates on the
> iteractor, the generation of an actual single-page or multi-page
> bvec is left to the caller using the bvec_iter_bvec or segment_iter_bvec
> helpers.  The only difference is how many bytes you can move the
> iterator forward in a single loop iteration - so if you pass in
> PAGE_SIZE as the max_seg_len you just will have to loop more often
> for a large enough bytes, but not actually do anything different.

FYI, this patch reverts the max_seg_len related changes back to where
we are in mainline, and as expected everything works fine for me:

diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index e5b975fa0558..926550ce2d21 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -137,24 +137,18 @@ static inline bool bio_full(struct bio *bio)
 	for (i = 0, iter_all.idx = 0; iter_all.idx < (bio)->bi_vcnt; iter_all.idx++)	\
 		bvec_for_each_segment(bvl, &((bio)->bi_io_vec[iter_all.idx]), i, iter_all)
 
-static inline void __bio_advance_iter(struct bio *bio, struct bvec_iter *iter,
-				      unsigned bytes, unsigned max_seg_len)
+static inline void bio_advance_iter(struct bio *bio, struct bvec_iter *iter,
+				    unsigned bytes)
 {
 	iter->bi_sector += bytes >> 9;
 
 	if (bio_no_advance_iter(bio))
 		iter->bi_size -= bytes;
 	else
-		__bvec_iter_advance(bio->bi_io_vec, iter, bytes, max_seg_len);
+		bvec_iter_advance(bio->bi_io_vec, iter, bytes);
 		/* TODO: It is reasonable to complete bio with error here. */
 }
 
-static inline void bio_advance_iter(struct bio *bio, struct bvec_iter *iter,
-				    unsigned bytes)
-{
-	__bio_advance_iter(bio, iter, bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
-}
-
 #define __bio_for_each_segment(bvl, bio, iter, start)			\
 	for (iter = (start);						\
 	     (iter).bi_size &&						\
@@ -168,7 +162,7 @@ static inline void bio_advance_iter(struct bio *bio, struct bvec_iter *iter,
 	for (iter = (start);						\
 	     (iter).bi_size &&						\
 		((bvl = bio_iter_mp_iovec((bio), (iter))), 1);	\
-	     __bio_advance_iter((bio), &(iter), (bvl).bv_len, BVEC_MAX_LEN))
+	     bio_advance_iter((bio), &(iter), (bvl).bv_len))
 
 /* returns one real segment(multi-page bvec) each time */
 #define bio_for_each_bvec(bvl, bio, iter)			\
diff --git a/include/linux/bvec.h b/include/linux/bvec.h
index cab36d838ed0..138b4007b8f2 100644
--- a/include/linux/bvec.h
+++ b/include/linux/bvec.h
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 
-#define BVEC_MAX_LEN  ((unsigned int)-1)
-
 /*
  * was unsigned short, but we might as well be ready for > 64kB I/O pages
  */
@@ -102,8 +100,8 @@ struct bvec_iter_all {
 	.bv_offset	= segment_iter_offset((bvec), (iter)),	\
 })
 
-static inline bool __bvec_iter_advance(const struct bio_vec *bv,
-		struct bvec_iter *iter, unsigned bytes, unsigned max_seg_len)
+static inline bool bvec_iter_advance(const struct bio_vec *bv,
+		struct bvec_iter *iter, unsigned bytes)
 {
 	if (WARN_ONCE(bytes > iter->bi_size,
 		     "Attempted to advance past end of bvec iter\n")) {
@@ -112,18 +110,12 @@ static inline bool __bvec_iter_advance(const struct bio_vec *bv,
 	}
 
 	while (bytes) {
-		unsigned segment_len = segment_iter_len(bv, *iter);
-
-		if (max_seg_len < BVEC_MAX_LEN)
-			segment_len = min_t(unsigned, segment_len,
-					    max_seg_len -
-					    bvec_iter_offset(bv, *iter));
+		unsigned iter_len = bvec_iter_len(bv, *iter);
+		unsigned len = min(bytes, iter_len);
 
-		segment_len = min(bytes, segment_len);
-
-		bytes -= segment_len;
-		iter->bi_size -= segment_len;
-		iter->bi_bvec_done += segment_len;
+		bytes -= len;
+		iter->bi_size -= len;
+		iter->bi_bvec_done += len;
 
 		if (iter->bi_bvec_done == __bvec_iter_bvec(bv, *iter)->bv_len) {
 			iter->bi_bvec_done = 0;
@@ -157,13 +149,6 @@ static inline bool bvec_iter_rewind(const struct bio_vec *bv,
 	return true;
 }
 
-static inline bool bvec_iter_advance(const struct bio_vec *bv,
-				     struct bvec_iter *iter,
-				     unsigned bytes)
-{
-	return __bvec_iter_advance(bv, iter, bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
-}
-
 #define for_each_bvec(bvl, bio_vec, iter, start)			\
 	for (iter = (start);						\
 	     (iter).bi_size &&						\