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SubjectRe: [patch] optimize o_direct on block device - v2
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:55:50PM -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> This patch implements block device specific .direct_IO method instead
> of going through generic direct_io_worker for block device.
>
> direct_io_worker is fairly complex because it needs to handle O_DIRECT
> on file system, where it needs to perform block allocation, hole detection,
> extents file on write, and tons of other corner cases. The end result is
> that it takes tons of CPU time to submit an I/O.
>
> For block device, the block allocation is much simpler and a tight triple
> loop can be written to iterate each iovec and each page within the iovec
> in order to construct/prepare bio structure and then subsequently submit
> it to the block layer. This significantly speeds up O_D on block device.

I think this separation makes a lot of sense. direct-io.c has to deal
with a lot of convuled issues that only arise on regular files, and
the block mapping is the most trivial part of that :) While you're
at it please send a followup patch that removes the DIO_NO_LOCKING
code from direct-io.c as it's now unused and only needlessly complicates
the code. (Hopefully we'll get down to one single variant one day..)

> --- ./fs/block_dev.c.orig 2006-11-29 13:57:37.000000000 -0800
> +++ ./fs/block_dev.c 2006-12-04 18:38:53.000000000 -0800
> @@ -129,43 +129,164 @@ blkdev_get_block(struct inode *inode, se
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int
> -blkdev_get_blocks(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
> - struct buffer_head *bh, int create)
> +int blk_end_aio(struct bio *bio, unsigned int bytes_done, int error)

This should be static.

> + struct kiocb* iocb = bio->bi_private;
> + atomic_t* bio_count = (atomic_t*) &iocb->private;

The * placement is wrong all over. This should be:

struct kiocb *iocb = bio->bi_private;
atomic_t *bio_count = (atomic_t *)&iocb->private;

> + long res;
> +
> + if ((bio->bi_rw & 1) == READ)

I just wanted to complain about not using a proper helper for this,
but apparently we don't have one yet..

> + bio_check_pages_dirty(bio);
> + else {
> + bio_release_pages(bio);
> + bio_put(bio);
> + }

> + if (error)
> + iocb->ki_left = -EIO;
> +
> + if (atomic_dec_and_test(bio_count)) {
> + res = (iocb->ki_left < 0) ? iocb->ki_left : iocb->ki_nbytes;
> + aio_complete(iocb, res, 0);
> }


I suspect this would be a lot more readable as:

if (atomic_dec_and_test(bio_count)) {
if (iocb->ki_left < 0)
aio_complete(iocb, iocb->ki_left, 0);
else
aio_complete(iocb, iocb->ki_nbytes, 0);
}

> +struct page *blk_get_page(unsigned long addr, size_t count, int rw,
> + struct pvec *pvec)

static, again.

> +{
> + int ret, nr_pages;
> + if (pvec->idx == pvec->nr) {
> + nr_pages = (addr + count + PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE -
> + addr / PAGE_SIZE;
> + nr_pages = min(nr_pages, VEC_SIZE);

Didn't someone say you should add a macro for this in the last round
of reviews?

> + down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> + ret = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr, nr_pages,
> + rw==READ, 0, pvec->page, NULL);

rw == READ

> static ssize_t
> blkdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
> - loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs)
> + loff_t pos, unsigned long nr_segs)
> {
> - struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
> - struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
> + struct inode *inode = iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping->host;
> + unsigned blkbits = blksize_bits(bdev_hardsect_size(I_BDEV(inode)));
> + unsigned blocksize_mask = (1<< blkbits) - 1;
> + unsigned long seg, nvec, cur_off, cur_len;
> +
> + unsigned long addr;
> + size_t count, nbytes = iocb->ki_nbytes;
> + loff_t size;
> + struct bio * bio;
> + atomic_t *bio_count = (atomic_t *) &iocb->private;
> + struct page *page;
> + struct pvec pvec = {.nr = 0, .idx = 0, };
> +
> + BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(atomic_t) > sizeof(iocb->private));
> +
> + size = i_size_read(inode);
> + if (pos + nbytes > size)
> + nbytes = size - pos;
> +
> + seg = 0;
> + addr = (unsigned long) iov[0].iov_base;
> + count = iov[0].iov_len;
> + atomic_set(bio_count, 1);
> +
> + /* first check the alignment */
> + if (addr & blocksize_mask || count & blocksize_mask ||
> + pos & blocksize_mask)
> + return -EINVAL;

You only use one iovec and simply ignore all others, that's a huge
regression over the existing functionality (and actually a bug that
causes silent data loss)

> static int blkdev_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
> --- ./fs/read_write.c.orig 2006-11-29 13:57:37.000000000 -0800
> +++ ./fs/read_write.c 2006-12-04 17:30:34.000000000 -0800
> @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ ssize_t do_sync_read(struct file *filp,
>
> init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
> kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
> - kiocb.ki_left = len;
> + kiocb.ki_nbytes = kiocb.ki_left = len;

What's this for? I don't think anyone should rely on kiocb.ki_left
beeing initialized.

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