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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: tj@kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] can we reduce bio_set_dev overhead due to bio_associate_blkg?
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:39:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkUwmyrIqnRGIOHm@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YkRM7Iyp8m6A1BCl@fedora>

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 08:28:28AM -0400, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> I think cloning is a special case that I might have gotten wrong. If
> there is a bio_set_dev() call after each clone(), then the
> bio_clone_blkg_association() is excess work. We'd need to audit how
> bio_alloc_clone() is being used to be safe. Alternatively, we could opt
> for a bio_alloc_clone_noblkg(), but that's a little bit uglier.

As of Linux 5.18, the cloning interfaces have changed and take
a block devie that the clone is intended to be used for, and bio_set_dev
is mostly (there is a few more sports to be cleaned up in
dm/md/bcache/btrfs) only used for remapping to a new device.

That being said I've eyed the code in bio_associate_blkg a bit and
I've been wondering about some of how it is implemented as well.

Is recursive throttling really a thing?  i.e. we can have cgroup
policies on the upper (e.g. dm) device and then again on the lower
(e.g. nvme device)?  I think the code currently supports that, and
if we want to keep that I don't really see much of a way to avoid
the lookup, but maybe we cn make it faster.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-31  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-30 16:52 [dm-devel] can we reduce bio_set_dev overhead due to bio_associate_blkg? Mike Snitzer
2022-03-30 12:28 ` Dennis Zhou
2022-03-31  4:39   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-03-31  5:52     ` Dennis Zhou
2022-03-31  9:15       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-08 15:42         ` Mike Snitzer
2022-04-09  5:15           ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-11 16:58             ` Mike Snitzer
2022-04-11 17:16               ` Mike Snitzer
2022-04-11 17:33                 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH] block: remove redundant blk-cgroup init from __bio_clone Mike Snitzer
2022-04-12  5:27                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-12  7:52                     ` Dennis Zhou
2022-04-23 16:55                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-26 17:30                     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer

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