Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: no-copy bvec for direct IO

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Dec 09 2020 - 03:40:55 EST


> + /*
> + * In practice groups of pages tend to be accessed/reclaimed/refaulted
> + * together. To not go over bvec for those who didn't set BIO_WORKINGSET
> + * approximate it by looking at the first page and inducing it to the
> + * whole bio
> + */
> + if (unlikely(PageWorkingset(iter->bvec->bv_page)))
> + bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_WORKINGSET);

IIRC the feedback was that we do not need to deal with BIO_WORKINGSET
at all for direct I/O.

> + bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_NO_PAGE_REF);
> +
> + iter->count = 0;
> + return 0;
> +}

This helper should go into bio.c, next to bio_iov_iter_get_pages.
And please convert the other callers of bio_iov_iter_get_pages to this
scheme as well.