Re: [PATCH 1/1] block: Check the queue limit before bio submitting

From: Ming Lei
Date: Sun Nov 05 2023 - 23:54:40 EST


On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 01:40:12AM +0000, Ed Tsai (蔡宗軒) wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-11-06 at 09:33 +0800, Ed Tsai wrote:
> > On Sat, 2023-11-04 at 11:43 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:

...

> Sorry for missing out on my dd command. Here it is:
> dd if=/data/test_file of=/dev/null bs=64m count=1 iflag=direct

OK, thanks for the sharing.

I understand the issue now, but not sure if it is one good idea to check
queue limit in __bio_iov_iter_get_pages():

1) bio->bi_bdev may not be set

2) what matters is actually bio's alignment, and bio size still can
be big enough

So I cooked one patch, and it should address your issue:


diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 816d412c06e9..7d982e74c65d 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1266,6 +1266,24 @@ static int __bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
size -= trim;
}

+ /*
+ * Try to make bio aligned with 128KB if there are pages left so we
+ * can avoid small bio in case of big chunk sequential IO
+ */
+ if (iov_iter_count(iter)) {
+ unsigned curr_size = (bio->bi_iter.bi_size + size) &
+ ~((128U << 10) - 1);
+ if (curr_size <= bio->bi_iter.bi_size) {
+ ret = left = size;
+ goto revert;
+ } else {
+ curr_size -= bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
+ ret = size - curr_size;
+ iov_iter_revert(iter, ret);
+ size = curr_size;
+ }
+ }
+
if (unlikely(!size)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out;
@@ -1285,7 +1303,7 @@ static int __bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)

offset = 0;
}
-
+revert:
iov_iter_revert(iter, left);
out:
while (i < nr_pages)




Thanks,
Ming