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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	"open list:SOFTWARE RAID (Multiple Disks) SUPPORT"
	<linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [md PATCH 10/14] md/raid1: stop using bi_phys_segment
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 11:34:31 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737evnqp4.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVPf6qoaEWcv_s4n=2V9E=Jqfv3QE+ZpXVALdiiWTjh63Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Feb 21 2017, Ming Lei wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:05 AM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 20 2017, Ming Lei wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:39 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> +static void inc_pending(struct r1conf *conf, sector_t start_next_window,
>>>> +                       sector_t bi_sector)
>>>> +{
>>>> +       /* The current request requires multiple r1_bio, so
>>>> +        * we need to increment the pending count, and the corresponding
>>>> +        * window count.
>>>> +        */
>>>> +       spin_lock(&conf->resync_lock);
>>>> +       conf->nr_pending++;
>>>
>>> Just be curious, in current code 'nr_pending' is increased in wait_barrier(),
>>> and looks this patch introduces inc_pending() to do that on each r10_bio, but
>>> not see any change in wait_barrier(), so that means there might be issue in
>>> current implementation about operating on this counter?
>>
>> Did you read the more detailed description in the previous raid10.c
>> patch?
>> This patch follows the same logic as that patch.
>
> OK, I see the point now:
>
> - for the 1st r1_bio, conf->nr_pending is increased in wait_barrier()
> - for the others, conf->nr_pending is increased in inc_pending().
>
> Also I have another question:
>
> - before this patch, both number of requests in windows
> are increased only for WRITE I/O(see wait_barrier()), and decreased
> for both READ/WRITE in complete path(see allow_barrier())

For a READ request, ->start_next_window is zero, so allow_barrier()
doesn't decrease the window counters.
So they are only increased and decreased for WRITE request.

>
> - after this patch, except for the 1st r1_bio, number of requests in
> windows are increased for both WRITE/READ I/O, and decreased
> for both READ/WRITE too.

Why do you think READ requests now increase the number of requests in a
window?

NeilBrown

>
> Could you explain a bit about this change?
>
> Thanks,
> Ming Lei
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-03  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-16  4:39 [md PATCH 00/14] remove all abuse of bi_phys_segments NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 01/14] md/raid5: use md_write_start to count stripes, not bios NeilBrown
2017-02-16 17:29   ` Shaohua Li
2017-02-17  2:04     ` NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 02/14] md/raid5: simplfy delaying of writes while metadata is updated NeilBrown
2017-02-16 17:37   ` Shaohua Li
2017-02-17  2:10     ` NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 04/14] block: trace completion of all bios NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 03/14] md/raid5: call bio_endio() directly rather than queueing for later NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 09/14] md/raid10: stop using bi_phys_segments NeilBrown
2017-02-16 14:26   ` Jack Wang
2017-02-17  2:15     ` NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 08/14] md/raid1, raid10: move rXbio accounting closer to allocation NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 05/14] md/raid5: use bio_inc_remaining() instead of repurposing bi_phys_segments as a counter NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 11/14] md/raid5: don't test ->writes_pending in raid5_remove_disk NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 06/14] md/raid5: remove over-loading of ->bi_phys_segments NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 10/14] md/raid1: stop using bi_phys_segment NeilBrown
2017-02-20 10:57   ` Ming Lei
2017-02-21  0:05     ` NeilBrown
2017-02-21  7:41       ` Ming Lei
2017-03-03  0:34         ` NeilBrown [this message]
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 07/14] Revert "md/raid5: limit request size according to implementation limits" NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 14/14] MD: use per-cpu counter for writes_pending NeilBrown
2017-02-16 20:12   ` Shaohua Li
2017-02-17  2:34     ` NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 12/14] md: factor out set_in_sync() NeilBrown
2017-02-16  4:39 ` [md PATCH 13/14] md: close a race with setting mddev->in_sync NeilBrown

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