Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755461AbZIRP0c (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:26:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755338AbZIRP0a (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:26:30 -0400 Received: from TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:58299 "EHLO tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755112AbZIRP0L (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:26:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4AB3A4DA.90309@ce.jp.nec.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:18:50 +0900 From: "Jun'ichi Nomura" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe , Alasdair G Kergon , "Martin K. Petersen" , Mike Snitzer CC: David Strand , device-mapper development , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 2/2] block: blk_set_default_limits sets 0 to max_sectors Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2632 Lines: 63 max_sectors and max_hw_sectors of dm device are set to smaller values than those of underlying devices. E.g: # cat /sys/block/sdj/queue/max_sectors_kb 512 # cat /sys/block/sdj/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb 32767 # echo "0 10 linear /dev/sdj 0" | dmsetup create test # cat /sys/block/dm-0/queue/max_sectors_kb 127 # cat /sys/block/dm-0/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb 127 This prevents the I/O size of struct request from becoming large, and causes undesired request fragmentation in request-based dm. This is caused by the queue_limits stacking. In dm_calculate_queue_limits(), the block-layer's safe default value (SAFE_MAX_SECTORS, 255) is included in the merging process of target's queue_limits. So underlying queue_limits is not propagated correctly. Initialize default values of all max_sectors to '0' in blk_set_default_limits() so that the values propagate properly from underlying devices. Check this thread for further background: https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2009-September/msg00176.html Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura Reported-by: David Strand Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: Alasdair G Kergon Cc: Martin K. Petersen Cc: Jens Axboe --- block/blk-settings.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.31.work/block/blk-settings.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.31.work.orig/block/blk-settings.c +++ linux-2.6.31.work/block/blk-settings.c @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ void blk_set_default_limits(struct queue lim->max_hw_segments = MAX_HW_SEGMENTS; lim->seg_boundary_mask = BLK_SEG_BOUNDARY_MASK; lim->max_segment_size = MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE; - lim->max_sectors = lim->max_hw_sectors = SAFE_MAX_SECTORS; + lim->max_sectors = lim->max_hw_sectors = 0; lim->logical_block_size = lim->physical_block_size = lim->io_min = 512; lim->bounce_pfn = (unsigned long)(BLK_BOUNCE_ANY >> PAGE_SHIFT); lim->alignment_offset = 0; @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ void blk_queue_make_request(struct reque q->unplug_timer.data = (unsigned long)q; blk_set_default_limits(&q->limits); + blk_queue_max_sectors(q, SAFE_MAX_SECTORS); /* * If the caller didn't supply a lock, fall back to our embedded -- 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/