Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/5] xen-blkback: don't store dev_bus_addr

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-19T15:10:48Z

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 02:55:56PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 19.03.13 at 15:32, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:49:32PM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> >> dev_bus_addr returned in the grant ref map operation is the mfn of the
> >> passed page, there's no need to store it in the persistent grant
> >> entry, since we can always get it provided that we have the page.
> >>
> >> This reduces the memory overhead of persistent grants in blkback.
> >
> > I took this patch, but I redid it a bit:
> >
> > commit 1d4cb410befdb8b373c6fad604b39e0200e0bee0
> > Author: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> > Date: Mon Mar 18 17:49:32 2013 +0100
> >
> > xen-blkback: don't store dev_bus_addr
> >
> > dev_bus_addr returned in the grant ref map operation is the mfn of the
> > passed page, there's no need to store it in the persistent grant
> > entry, since we can always get it provided that we have the page.
> >
> > This reduces the memory overhead of persistent grants in blkback.
> >
> > While at it, rename the 'seg[i].buf' to be 'seg[i].offset' as
> > it makes much more sense - as we use that value in bio_add_page
> > which as the fourth argument expects the offset.
> >
> > We hadn't used the physical address as part of this at all.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> > Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> > [v1: s/buf/offset/]
> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> > b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> > index 2cf8381..061c202 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> > @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ int xen_blkif_schedule(void *arg)
> > }
> >
> > struct seg_buf {
> > - unsigned long buf;
> > + unsigned long offset;
>
> If you touch this anyway, why don't you reduce the type to
> "unsigned int", halving the overall structure size?
>
> Even more, the field seems pointless to me altogether, since ...
>
> > unsigned int nsec;
> > };
> > /*
> > @@ -621,30 +621,21 @@ static int xen_blkbk_map(struct blkif_request *req,
> > * If this is a new persistent grant
> > * save the handler
> > */
> > - persistent_gnts[i]->handle = map[j].handle;
> > - persistent_gnts[i]->dev_bus_addr =
> > - map[j++].dev_bus_addr;
> > + persistent_gnts[i]->handle = map[j++].handle;
> > }
> > pending_handle(pending_req, i) =
> > persistent_gnts[i]->handle;
> >
> > if (ret)
> > continue;
> > -
> > - seg[i].buf = persistent_gnts[i]->dev_bus_addr |
> > - (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
> > } else {
> > - pending_handle(pending_req, i) = map[j].handle;
> > + pending_handle(pending_req, i) = map[j++].handle;
> > bitmap_set(pending_req->unmap_seg, i, 1);
> >
> > - if (ret) {
> > - j++;
> > + if (ret)
> > continue;
> > - }
> > -
> > - seg[i].buf = map[j++].dev_bus_addr |
> > - (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
> > }
> > + seg[i].offset = (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
>
> ... this uses "i" as index on both sides, so ...
>
> > }
> > return ret;
> > }
> > @@ -971,7 +962,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
> > (bio_add_page(bio,
> > pages[i],
> > seg[i].nsec << 9,
> > - seg[i].buf & ~PAGE_MASK) == 0)) {
> > + seg[i].offset & ~PAGE_MASK) == 0)) {
>
> ... this one could as well use the original field.
>
> And the masking with ~PAGE_MASK is not pointless in any case.

Good point. In which might as well make the 'struct seg_buf' be an
simple array of unsigned int.

>
> Jan
>
> >
> > bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nseg-i);
> > if (unlikely(bio == NULL))
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
> > b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
> > index da78346..60103e2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
> > +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
> > @@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ struct persistent_gnt {
> > struct page *page;
> > grant_ref_t gnt;
> > grant_handle_t handle;
> > - uint64_t dev_bus_addr;
> > struct rb_node node;
> > };
> >
> >
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