[PATCHv3] nvme: skip noiob for zoned devices
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Tue Aug 18 14:02:05 EDT 2020
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 10:50:54AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:25:04PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > - if (iob)
> > > - blk_queue_chunk_sectors(ns->queue, rounddown_pow_of_two(iob));
> > > + if (iob) {
> > > + if (!blk_queue_is_zoned(disk->queue))
> > > + blk_queue_chunk_sectors(ns->queue, rounddown_pow_of_two(iob));
> > > + else if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP))
> > > + pr_warn("%s: zone namespace has unused IO boundary:%u\n",
> > > + disk->disk_name, iob);
> >
> > This has some overly long line and looks fairly convoluted, what
> > about something like:
> >
> > if (iob) {
> > unsigned int chunk_sectors = rounddown_pow_of_two(iob);
>
> Unrelated to this particular patch, but ... why is this rounddown here?
> While we can't use chunk_sectors if it is not a power of two, but what
> benefit are we expecting to get from using the wrong boundary just
> because it's convenient to our block stack?
True, might make sense to add a validity check instead.
>
> > if (blk_queue_is_zoned(disk->queue) &&
> > chunk_sectors > blk_queue_zone_sectors(disk->queue))
>
> I don't think we should skip iob just for the case where chunk_sectors
> is the larger value. A smaller value still ruins things like
> blk_queue_zone_sectors() and blk_queue_zone_no().
>
> Also, we call blk_revalidate_disk_zones() after the iob check, so the
> blk_queue_zone_sectors() hasn't been initialized for this revalidate.
>
> > pr_warn("%s: ignoring too large IO boundary: %u\n",
> > disk->disk_name, iob);
>
> We don't want to emit a repeated warning on every disk revalidation, so
> I added the check for GENHD_FL_UP to warn only on the very first disk
> validation.
Ok. Maybe we just need to move the whole thing into a helper to look
less confusing.
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