From: "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
<linux-block@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-mm@kvack.org>, Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
"Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@redhat.com>, <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
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<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
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"Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
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"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
<linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>, Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>,
<linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org>,
Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>,
"Bob Peterson" <rpeterso@redhat.com>, <cluster-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V10 15/19] block: always define BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:45:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9ak8o28.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181119090415.GM16736@ming.t460p> (Ming Lei's message of "Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:04:16 +0800")
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 05:59:36PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:53:02PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> > Now multi-page bvec can cover CONFIG_THP_SWAP, so we don't need to
>> > increase BIO_MAX_PAGES for it.
>>
>> You mentioned to it in the cover letter, but this needs more explanation
>> in the commit message. Why did CONFIG_THP_SWAP require > 256? Why does
>> multipage bvecs remove that requirement?
>
> CONFIG_THP_SWAP needs to split one TH page into normal pages and adds
> them all to one bio. With multipage-bvec, it just takes one bvec to
> hold them all.
Yes. CONFIG_THP_SWAP needs to put 512 normal sub-pages into one bio to
write the 512 sub-pages together. With the help of multipage-bvec, it
needs just bvect to hold 512 normal sub-pages.
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying
> thanks,
> Ming
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 2:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-15 8:52 [PATCH V10 00/19] block: support multi-page bvec Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 01/19] block: introduce multi-page page bvec helpers Ming Lei
2018-11-15 18:25 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 2:25 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-16 13:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-19 2:23 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-19 3:10 ` Jens Axboe
2018-11-19 3:35 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 02/19] block: introduce bio_for_each_bvec() Ming Lei
2018-11-15 18:28 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-16 13:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-19 3:31 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 03/19] block: use bio_for_each_bvec() to compute multi-page bvec count Ming Lei
2018-11-15 20:20 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-15 21:05 ` Mike Snitzer
2018-11-15 22:18 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-16 9:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-16 9:41 ` Gao Xiang
2018-11-16 16:04 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 7:50 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 04/19] block: use bio_for_each_bvec() to map sg Ming Lei
2018-11-15 22:33 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-16 13:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-19 7:51 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 05/19] block: introduce bvec_last_segment() Ming Lei
2018-11-15 23:23 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 7:57 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-16 13:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 06/19] fs/buffer.c: use bvec iterator to truncate the bio Ming Lei
2018-11-16 0:20 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-16 13:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 07/19] btrfs: use bvec_last_segment to get bio's last page Ming Lei
2018-11-16 0:21 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-16 13:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-19 8:09 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 08/19] btrfs: move bio_pages_all() to btrfs Ming Lei
2018-11-16 0:23 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 8:15 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-16 13:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-19 8:19 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-19 8:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 09/19] block: introduce bio_bvecs() Ming Lei
2018-11-16 0:26 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-16 13:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-19 8:21 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-20 0:49 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-11-20 16:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-20 20:11 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-11-21 0:59 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-21 3:20 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-11-21 3:44 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-21 4:25 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-11-21 4:42 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-11-21 5:04 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-21 5:35 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-11-21 8:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-21 10:19 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 10/19] block: loop: pass multi-page bvec to iov_iter Ming Lei
2018-11-16 0:40 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 8:25 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 11/19] bcache: avoid to use bio_for_each_segment_all() in bch_bio_alloc_pages() Ming Lei
2018-11-16 0:44 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 8:27 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-16 13:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-19 8:28 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH V10 12/19] block: allow bio_for_each_segment_all() to iterate over multi-page bvec Ming Lei
2018-11-15 12:42 ` David Sterba
2018-11-19 8:29 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-16 1:22 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 8:32 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:53 ` [PATCH V10 13/19] iomap & xfs: only account for new added page Ming Lei
2018-11-16 1:46 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 8:35 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-16 13:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-19 8:39 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:53 ` [PATCH V10 14/19] block: enable multipage bvecs Ming Lei
2018-11-16 1:56 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 8:45 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-16 13:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-19 9:00 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:53 ` [PATCH V10 15/19] block: always define BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256 Ming Lei
2018-11-16 1:59 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 9:04 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-20 2:45 ` Huang, Ying [this message]
2018-11-16 13:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-15 8:53 ` [PATCH V10 16/19] block: document usage of bio iterator helpers Ming Lei
2018-11-16 2:05 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-15 8:53 ` [PATCH V10 17/19] block: don't use bio->bi_vcnt to figure out segment number Ming Lei
2018-11-16 2:11 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 9:06 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-16 13:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-15 8:53 ` [PATCH V10 18/19] block: kill QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE Ming Lei
2018-11-16 2:18 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-16 13:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-16 16:40 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-19 9:17 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-16 13:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-19 9:20 ` Ming Lei
2018-11-15 8:53 ` [PATCH V10 19/19] block: kill BLK_MQ_F_SG_MERGE Ming Lei
2018-11-16 13:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-16 16:40 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-11-16 14:03 ` [PATCH V10 00/19] block: support multi-page bvec Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-17 2:42 ` Ming Lei
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