From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
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Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>,
Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 14:58:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49k2w3oz32.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF1ivSbdbvnCi04oR9h4sqnMcLFNXfOo-8=_2qFVkzNYmnmELQ@mail.gmail.com> (Ming Lin's message of "Wed, 20 May 2015 11:30:10 -0700")
Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org> writes:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org> writes:
>>
>>> diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
>>> index fd154b9..909f317 100644
>>> --- a/block/blk-core.c
>>> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
>>> @@ -617,6 +617,10 @@ 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(4, 0);
>>> + if (!q->bio_split)
>>> + goto fail_id;
>>> +
>>
>> Arbitrary numbers should be documented.
>
> Kent,
>
> Is there specific reason to choose number 4?
> If no, I may change it to BIO_POOL_SIZE which is 2.
Here's what he had to say last time around:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:09:21PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > + q->bio_split = bioset_create(4, 0);
> > + if (!q->bio_split)
> > + goto fail_id;
>
> How did we arrive at a mempool size of 4 to make sure we can always make
> progress with arbitrarily sized bios? Shouldn't we document the design
> decision somewhere?
It just has to be nonzero to guarantee forward progress - the
bio_alloc_bioset() rescuer thing I did awhile back guarantees that.
link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/26/47
Cheers,
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-20 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-07 6:34 [PATCH v3 00/11] simplify block layer based on immutable biovecs Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios Ming Lin
2015-05-18 16:52 ` Jeff Moyer
2015-05-18 17:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-22 7:51 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-20 18:30 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-20 18:58 ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2015-05-20 20:18 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-22 17:49 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-20 12:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-20 18:16 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] block: simplify bio_add_page() Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] block: allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES Ming Lin
2015-05-19 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-20 18:17 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev() Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read Ming Lin
2015-05-08 4:14 ` NeilBrown
2015-05-08 5:57 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] md/raid10: make sync_request_write() call bio_copy_data() Ming Lin
2015-05-19 8:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-20 3:09 ` NeilBrown
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios Ming Lin
2015-05-18 16:13 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] simplify block layer based on immutable biovecs Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-20 12:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-20 18:10 ` Ming Lin
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