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SubjectRe: [PATCH] lightnvm: invalidate addresses on multipage fail
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> On 03 Feb 2016, at 09:10, Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> wrote:
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> On 02/01/2016 02:10 PM, Javier González wrote:
>> If a page mapping fails when mapping several pages in a single write bio
>> request, make sure that already mapped pages are invalidated. Since
>> other legit mappings coming from a different bio request might have
>> occurred, rolling back the failed bio is a difficult, unnecessary
>> overhead; in part because when a mapping fails something bad has
>> happened already. Still, invalidating pages in the failed bio will help
>> GC.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c b/drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c
>> index c4d0b04..29befe9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c
>> @@ -730,6 +730,7 @@ static int rrpc_read_ppalist_rq(struct rrpc *rrpc, struct bio *bio,
>> } else {
>> BUG_ON(is_gc);
>> rrpc_unlock_laddr(rrpc, r);
>> + rrpc_invalidate_range(rrpc, laddr, i + 1);
>> nvm_dev_dma_free(rrpc->dev, rqd->ppa_list,
>> rqd->dma_ppa_list);
>> return NVM_IO_DONE;
>
> I'm not sure I understand this. This is in the read path, why would it
> need to invalidate pages if a page is not mapped?

You are right. I sent the wrong patch. I’ll send the right one now.

Javier
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