Re: [PATCH 2/4] blk-flush: count inflight flush_data requests

[Ming Lei]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 12:55:49PM +0800, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> On 2023/6/28 12:13, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 08:08:52PM +0800, chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> The flush state machine use a double list to link all inflight
> >> flush_data requests, to avoid issuing separate post-flushes for
> >> these flush_data requests which shared PREFLUSH.
> >>
> >> So we can't reuse rq->queuelist, this is why we need rq->flush.list
> >>
> >> In preparation of the next patch that reuse rq->queuelist for flush
> >> state machine, we change the double linked list to a u64 counter,
> >> which count all inflight flush_data requests.
> >>
> >> This is ok since we only need to know if there is any inflight
> >> flush_data request, so a u64 counter is good. The only problem I can
> >> think of is that u64 counter may overflow, which should be unlikely happen.
> > 
> > It won't overflow, q->nr_requests is 'unsigned long', which should have
> > been limited to one more reasonable value, such as 2 * BLK_MQ_MAX_DEPTH, so
> > u16 should be big enough in theory.
> 
> Ah, right. q->nr_requests is 'unsigned long' and q->queue_depth is 'unsigned int',
> so 'unsigned long' counter here won't overflow.

Not like q->nr_requests, q->queue_depth usually means the whole queue's depth,
which may cover all hw queue's depth. And it is only used by scsi, but it
should be held in "unsigned short" too.

> 
> Should I change it to smaller 'unsigned short' or just leave it as 'unsigned long' ?
> (Now the size of struct blk_flush_queue is exactly 64 bytes)

You have to limit q->nr_requests first, which may need a bit more work for avoiding
compiling warning or sort of thing. And 64k is big enough for holding per-queue
scheduler request.

Once it is done, it is fine to define this counter as 'unsigned short'.


Thanks,
Ming