Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_io: use a folio in sio_read_complete()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jul 20 2023 - 01:22:45 EST


On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 02:40:24PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > for (p = 0; p < sio->pages; p++) {
> > - struct page *page = sio->bvec[p].bv_page;
> > + struct folio *folio = page_folio(sio->bvec[p].bv_page);
> >
> > - SetPageUptodate(page);
> > - unlock_page(page);
> > + folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
> > + folio_unlock(folio);
> > }
>
> I'm kind of shocked this works today. Usually bvecs coalesce adjacent
> pages into a single entry, so you need to use a real iterator like
> bio_for_each_folio_all() to extract individual pages from a bvec.
> Maybe the sio bvec is constructed inefficiently.

sio_read_complete is a kiocb.ki_complete handler. There is no
coalesce going on for ITER_BVEC iov_iters, which share nothing
but the underlying data structure with the block I/O path.