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From: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: David Strand <dpstrand@gmail.com>,
	device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] block: blk_set_default_limits sets 0 to max_sectors
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:29:56 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB3B584.7050600@ce.jp.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB3B43D.9000802@ce.jp.nec.com>

max_sectors and max_hw_sectors of dm device are set to smaller values
than those of underlying devices.  E.g:
    # cat /sys/block/sdj/queue/max_sectors_kb
    512
    # cat /sys/block/sdj/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb
    32767
    # echo "0 10 linear /dev/sdj 0" | dmsetup create test
    # cat /sys/block/dm-0/queue/max_sectors_kb
    127
    # cat /sys/block/dm-0/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb
    127
This prevents the I/O size of struct request from becoming large,
and causes undesired request fragmentation in request-based dm.

This is caused by the queue_limits stacking.
In dm_calculate_queue_limits(), the block-layer's safe default value
(SAFE_MAX_SECTORS, 255) is included in the merging process of target's
queue_limits. So underlying queue_limits is not propagated correctly.

Initialize default values of all max_sectors to '0'
in blk_set_default_limits() so that the values propagate properly
from underlying devices.

Check this thread for further background:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2009-September/msg00176.html

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: David Strand <dpstrand@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
---
 block/blk-settings.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.31.work/block/blk-settings.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.31.work.orig/block/blk-settings.c
+++ linux-2.6.31.work/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ void blk_set_default_limits(struct queue
 	lim->max_hw_segments = MAX_HW_SEGMENTS;
 	lim->seg_boundary_mask = BLK_SEG_BOUNDARY_MASK;
 	lim->max_segment_size = MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE;
-	lim->max_sectors = lim->max_hw_sectors = SAFE_MAX_SECTORS;
+	lim->max_sectors = lim->max_hw_sectors = 0;
 	lim->logical_block_size = lim->physical_block_size = lim->io_min = 512;
 	lim->bounce_pfn = (unsigned long)(BLK_BOUNCE_ANY >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	lim->alignment_offset = 0;
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ void blk_queue_make_request(struct reque
 	q->unplug_timer.data = (unsigned long)q;

 	blk_set_default_limits(&q->limits);
+	blk_queue_max_sectors(q, SAFE_MAX_SECTORS);

 	/*
 	 * If the caller didn't supply a lock, fall back to our embedded

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-18 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-18 16:24 [PATCH 1/3] block: Add blk_queue_copy_limits() Jun'ichi Nomura
2009-09-18 16:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] dm: Use blk_queue_copy_limits() Jun'ichi Nomura
2009-09-18 19:11   ` Mike Snitzer
2009-09-18 16:29 ` Jun'ichi Nomura [this message]
2009-09-18 19:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] block: Add blk_queue_copy_limits() Mike Snitzer
2009-09-18 19:28 ` [dm-devel] " Martin K. Petersen
2009-09-18 20:30   ` Mike Snitzer
2009-09-19 15:22   ` [dm-devel] " Jun'ichi Nomura
2009-09-20 21:00     ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-09-21 16:33       ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2009-09-21 19:43         ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-09-21 19:45           ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-18 20:33 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-18 20:35   ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-19 15:35     ` Jun'ichi Nomura

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