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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/11] blk: use non-rescuing bioset for q->bio_split.
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:38:49 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <149266672879.27388.10034843544514097987.stgit@noble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <149266645258.27388.14083229348123176454.stgit@noble>

A rescuing bioset is only useful if there might be bios from
that same bioset on the bio_list_on_stack queue at a time
when bio_alloc_bioset() is called.  This never applies to
q->bio_split.

Allocations from q->bio_split are only ever made from
blk_queue_split() which is only ever called early in each of
various make_request_fn()s.  The original bio (call this A)
is then passed to generic_make_request() and is placed on
the bio_list_on_stack queue, and the bio that was allocated
from q->bio_split (B) is processed.

The processing of this may cause other bios to be passed to
generic_make_request() or may even cause the bio B itself to
be passed, possible after some prefix has been split off
(using some other bioset).

generic_make_request() now guarantees that all of these bios
(B and dependants) will be fully processed before the tail
of the original bio A gets handled.  None of these early bios
can possible trigger an allocation from the original
q->bio_split as they are either too small to require
splitting or (more likely) are destined for a different queue.

The next time that the original q->bio_split might be used
by this thread is when A is processed again, as it might
still be too big to handle directly.  By this time there
cannot be any other bios allocated from q->bio_split in the
generic_make_request() queue.  So no rescuing will ever be
needed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
---
 block/blk-core.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 23f20cb84b2f..f5d64ad75b36 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_node(gfp_t gfp_mask, int node_id)
 	if (q->id < 0)
 		goto fail_q;
 
-	q->bio_split = bioset_create_rescued(BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0);
+	q->bio_split = bioset_create(BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0);
 	if (!q->bio_split)
 		goto fail_id;
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-20  5:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-20  5:38 [PATCH 00/10] block: assorted cleanup for bio splitting and cloning NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 02/11] blk: make the bioset rescue_workqueue optional NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-24  1:51     ` NeilBrown
2017-04-24 15:10       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-01  5:00         ` NeilBrown
2017-05-01 14:02           ` Jens Axboe
2017-05-02  3:33             ` NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 01/11] blk: remove bio_set arg from blk_queue_split() NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 15:14   ` Ming Lei
2017-04-22  9:16   ` Javier González
2017-04-24  2:32     ` NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 06/11] drbd: use bio_clone_fast() instead of bio_clone() NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-20  5:38 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2017-04-21 11:25   ` [PATCH 03/11] blk: use non-rescuing bioset for q->bio_split Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 04/11] block: Improvements to bounce-buffer handling NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 15:39   ` Ming Lei
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 05/11] rbd: use bio_clone_fast() instead of bio_clone() NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 07/11] pktcdvd: " NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 11/11] block: don't check for BIO_MAX_PAGES in blk_bio_segment_split() NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 15:48     ` Ming Lei
2017-04-24  3:16       ` NeilBrown
2017-04-24  3:14     ` NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 08/11] xen-blkfront: remove bio splitting NeilBrown
2017-04-20 10:00   ` Roger Pau Monné
2017-04-21 11:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 11:46     ` Roger Pau Monne
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 10/11] block: remove bio_clone() and all references NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 15:43   ` Ming Lei
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 09/11] bcache: use kmalloc to allocate bio in bch_data_verify() NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 11:32   ` Kent Overstreet
2017-04-21 15:41   ` Ming Lei

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