Re: next bio iters break discard?

["Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>]

>>>>> "Kent" == Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> writes:

Kent> Side note, one of the things on my todo list/wishlist is make a
Kent> separate enum for bio type - bare flush, normal read/write, scsi
Kent> command, discard and write same. In particular with bi_size
Kent> meaning different things depending on the type of the command, I
Kent> think having an enum we can switch off of where appropriate
Kent> instead of a bunch of random flags will make things a hell of a
Kent> lot saner.

Yeah. That's one of the reasons we cleaned up the merge flags and
introduced bio_has_data() and bio_is_rw().

Kent> There's also that horrible hack in the scsi (?) code Christoph
Kent> added for discards - where the driver adds a page to the bio - if
Kent> the driver is counting the number of segments _after_ that god
Kent> only knows what is supposed to happen.

I manually do the bookkeeping in the SCSI disk driver. I.e. LLDs are
explicitly told to perform a 512-byte transfer. And when they're done I
complete bi_size bytes to the block layer. Kind of ugly but it's an
unfortunate side effect of bi_size being both the size of the
scatterlist and the block count. I did consider making them separate
entities but that means struct bio will grow for no reason for the
common case of read/write. Didn't seem worth the hassle...

Kent> Does the below patch look like what we want? I'm assuming that if
Kent> multiple WRITE_SAME bios are merged, since they're all writing the
Kent> same data we can consider the entire request to be a single
Kent> segment.

Looks OK to me.

Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering