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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 02/14] dm: add ->copy_from_iter() dax operation support
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On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 18:45 -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 13:23 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Allow device-mapper to route copy_from_iter operations to the
> > per-target implementation. In order for the device stacking to work
> > we need a dax_dev and a pgoff relative to that device. This gives
> > each layer of the stack the information it needs to look up the
> > operation pointer for the next level.
> >
> > This conceptually allows for an array of mixed device drivers with
> > varying copy_from_iter implementations.
> >
> > Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>
> I was worried about possible overhead with additional stub calls, but
> it looks fine with a single thread fio write test with direct=1.
>
>  92.62%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __copy_user_nocache
>   0.04%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
>   0.08%  libpthread-2.22.so  [.] __GI___libc_write
>   0.01%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] sys_write
>   0.02%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] vfs_write
>   0.02%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __vfs_write
>   0.02%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] ext4_file_write_iter
>   0.02%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] dax_iomap_rw
>   0.03%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] iomap_apply
>   0.04%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] dax_iomap_actor
>   0.01%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] dax_copy_from_iter
>   0.01%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] dm_dax_copy_from_iter
>   0.01%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] linear_dax_copy_from_iter
>   0.03%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] copy_from_iter_flushcache
>   0.00%  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] pmem_copy_from_iter

I had bs=256k, which was too big for this test. bs=4k result is not
this pretty at all, only 23% in __copy_user_nocache. This change
accounts for approx. 1% with 4k. Given we have larger overheads in
many other functions in the path, the change looks acceptable (I keep
my review-by). I'd prefer to reduce code in the path, though.

Thanks,
-Toshi
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