Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933638AbbHLHIJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2015 03:08:09 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:49375 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933553AbbHLHIF (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2015 03:08:05 -0400 From: Ming Lin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Kent Overstreet , Dongsu Park , Mike Snitzer , "Martin K. Petersen" , Ming Lin Subject: [PATCH v6 00/11] simplify block layer based on immutable biovecs Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:07:10 -0700 Message-Id: <1439363241-31772-1-git-send-email-mlin@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 8212 Lines: 177 Hi Jens, Neil/Mike/Martin have acked/reviewed PATCH 1. Now it's ready. Could you please apply this series? https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mlin/linux.git/log/?h=block-generic-req Please note that, for discard, we cap the size at 2G. We'll change it to UINT_MAX after the splitting code in DM thinp is rewritten. v6: - rebase on top of 4.2-rc6+ - fix discard/write_same 32bit bi_size overflow issue - add ACKs/Review from Mike/Christoph/Martin/Steven v5: - rebase on top of 4.2-rc1 - reorder patch 6,7 - add NeilBrown's ACKs - fix memory leak: free "bio_split" bioset in blk_release_queue() v4: - rebase on top of 4.1-rc4 - use BIO_POOL_SIZE instead of number 4 for bioset_create() - call blk_queue_split() in blk_mq_make_request() - call blk_queue_split() in zram_make_request() - add patch "block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()" - remove split code in blkdev_issue_discard() - drop patch "md/raid10: make sync_request_write() call bio_copy_data()". NeilBrown queued it. - drop patch "block: allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES". Will send it seperately v3: - rebase on top of 4.1-rc2 - support for QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS - update commit logs of patch 2&4 - split bio for chunk_aligned_read v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/28/28 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/22/128 This is the 6th attempt of simplifying block layer based on immutable biovecs. Immutable biovecs, implemented by Kent Overstreet, have been available in mainline since v3.14. Its original goal was actually making generic_make_request() accept arbitrarily sized bios, and pushing the splitting down to the drivers or wherever it's required. See also discussions in the past, [1] [2] [3]. This will bring not only performance improvements, but also a great amount of reduction in code complexity all over the block layer. Performance gain is possible due to the fact that bio_add_page() does not have to check unnecesary conditions such as queue limits or if biovecs are mergeable. Those will be delegated to the driver level. Kent already said that he actually benchmarked the impact of this with fio on a micron p320h, which showed definitely a positive impact. Moreover, this patchset also allows a lot of code to be deleted, mainly because of removal of merge_bvec_fn() callbacks. We have been aware that it has been always a delicate issue for stacking block drivers (e.g. md and bcache) to handle merging bio consistently. This simplication will help every individual block driver avoid having such an issue. Patches are against 4.2-rc6+. These are also available in my git repo at: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mlin/linux.git/log/?h=block-generic-req git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mlin/linux.git block-generic-req This patchset is a prerequisite of other consecutive patchsets, e.g. multipage biovecs, rewriting plugging, or rewriting direct-IO, which are excluded this time. That means, this patchset should not bring any regression to end-users. Comments are welcome. Ming [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/23/263 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/25/732 [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/26/618 Dongsu Park (1): Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios Kent Overstreet (8): block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios block: simplify bio_add_page() bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev() block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs() Ming Lin (2): block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same} md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read Documentation/block/biovecs.txt | 10 +- block/bio.c | 152 ++++++++++------------------ block/blk-core.c | 19 ++-- block/blk-lib.c | 47 ++------- block/blk-merge.c | 148 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- block/blk-mq.c | 4 + block/blk-settings.c | 22 ---- block/blk-sysfs.c | 3 + drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h | 1 - drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c | 1 - drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c | 37 +------ drivers/block/pktcdvd.c | 27 +---- drivers/block/ps3vram.c | 2 + drivers/block/rbd.c | 47 --------- drivers/block/rsxx/dev.c | 2 + drivers/block/umem.c | 2 + drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 + drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h | 18 ---- drivers/md/bcache/io.c | 101 +----------------- drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 4 +- drivers/md/bcache/request.c | 16 +-- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 32 +----- drivers/md/bcache/util.h | 5 +- drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 21 ---- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 16 --- drivers/md/dm-era-target.c | 15 --- drivers/md/dm-flakey.c | 16 --- drivers/md/dm-io.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-linear.c | 16 --- drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c | 16 --- drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 19 ---- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 15 --- drivers/md/dm-stripe.c | 21 ---- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 8 -- drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 31 ------ drivers/md/dm-verity.c | 16 --- drivers/md/dm.c | 125 +---------------------- drivers/md/dm.h | 2 - drivers/md/linear.c | 43 -------- drivers/md/md.c | 28 +---- drivers/md/md.h | 12 --- drivers/md/multipath.c | 21 ---- drivers/md/raid0.c | 56 ---------- drivers/md/raid0.h | 2 - drivers/md/raid1.c | 58 +---------- drivers/md/raid10.c | 121 +--------------------- drivers/md/raid5.c | 92 ++++++----------- drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c | 2 + drivers/s390/block/xpram.c | 2 + drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/lloop.c | 2 + fs/btrfs/compression.c | 5 +- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 9 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 3 +- fs/btrfs/scrub.c | 18 +--- fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 72 ------------- fs/buffer.c | 7 +- fs/direct-io.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/page-io.c | 3 +- fs/ext4/readpage.c | 2 +- fs/f2fs/data.c | 2 +- fs/gfs2/lops.c | 9 +- fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c | 14 +-- fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c | 4 +- fs/mpage.c | 4 +- fs/nilfs2/segbuf.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 3 +- include/linux/bio.h | 1 - include/linux/blkdev.h | 13 +-- include/linux/device-mapper.h | 4 - mm/page_io.c | 8 +- 71 files changed, 337 insertions(+), 1332 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/