Re: [RFC 5/5] block: implement io_uring discard cmd

Ming Lei
2024-08-15T23:44:55Z

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 8/15/24 15:33, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 8/14/24 7:42 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 6:46?PM Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Add ->uring_cmd callback for block device files and use it to implement
> > > > asynchronous discard. Normally, it first tries to execute the command
> > > > from non-blocking context, which we limit to a single bio because
> > > > otherwise one of sub-bios may need to wait for other bios, and we don't
> > > > want to deal with partial IO. If non-blocking attempt fails, we'll retry
> > > > it in a blocking context.
> > > >
> > > > Suggested-by: Conrad Meyer <conradmeyer@meta.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > block/blk.h | 1 +
> > > > block/fops.c | 2 +
> > > > block/ioctl.c | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 2 +
> > > > 4 files changed, 99 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
> > > > index e180863f918b..5178c5ba6852 100644
> > > > --- a/block/blk.h
> > > > +++ b/block/blk.h
> > > > @@ -571,6 +571,7 @@ blk_mode_t file_to_blk_mode(struct file *file);
> > > > int truncate_bdev_range(struct block_device *bdev, blk_mode_t mode,
> > > > loff_t lstart, loff_t lend);
> > > > long blkdev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg);
> > > > +int blkdev_uring_cmd(struct io_uring_cmd *cmd, unsigned int issue_flags);
> > > > long compat_blkdev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg);
> > > >
> > > > extern const struct address_space_operations def_blk_aops;
> > > > diff --git a/block/fops.c b/block/fops.c
> > > > index 9825c1713a49..8154b10b5abf 100644
> > > > --- a/block/fops.c
> > > > +++ b/block/fops.c
> > > > @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
> > > > #include <linux/fs.h>
> > > > #include <linux/iomap.h>
> > > > #include <linux/module.h>
> > > > +#include <linux/io_uring/cmd.h>
> > > > #include "blk.h"
> > > >
> > > > static inline struct inode *bdev_file_inode(struct file *file)
> > > > @@ -873,6 +874,7 @@ const struct file_operations def_blk_fops = {
> > > > .splice_read = filemap_splice_read,
> > > > .splice_write = iter_file_splice_write,
> > > > .fallocate = blkdev_fallocate,
> > > > + .uring_cmd = blkdev_uring_cmd,
> > >
> > > Just be curious, we have IORING_OP_FALLOCATE already for sending
> > > discard to block device, why is .uring_cmd added for this purpose?
>
> Which is a good question, I haven't thought about it, but I tend to
> agree with Jens. Because vfs_fallocate is created synchronous
> IORING_OP_FALLOCATE is slow for anything but pretty large requests.
> Probably can be patched up, which would involve changing the
> fops->fallocate protot, but I'm not sure async there makes sense
> outside of bdev (?), and cmd approach is simpler, can be made
> somewhat more efficient (1 less layer in the way), and it's not
> really something completely new since we have it in ioctl.

Yeah, we have ioctl(DISCARD), which acquires filemap_invalidate_lock,
same with blkdev_fallocate().

But this patch drops this exclusive lock, so it becomes async friendly,
but may cause stale page cache. However, if the lock is required, it can't
be efficient anymore and io-wq may be inevitable, :-)

Thanks,
Ming