[dm-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] block: support to freeze bio based request queue

Ming Lei ming.lei at redhat.com
Fri Apr 16 02:28:22 BST 2021


On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 01:16:42PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 4/15/21 3:33 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > 1) grab two queue usage refcount for blk-mq before submitting blk-mq
> > bio, one is for bio, anther is for request;
>                        ^^^^^^
>                        another?
> 
> > diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
> > index 09f774e7413d..f71e4b433030 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-core.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-core.c
> > @@ -431,12 +431,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_cleanup_queue);
> >  int blk_queue_enter(struct request_queue *q, blk_mq_req_flags_t flags)
> >  {
> >  	const bool pm = flags & BLK_MQ_REQ_PM;
> > +	const unsigned int nr = (flags & BLK_MQ_REQ_DOUBLE_REF) ? 2 : 1;
> 
> Please leave out the parentheses from around the condition in the above
> and in other ternary expressions. The ternary operator has a very low
> precedence so adding parentheses around the condition in a ternary
> operator is almost never necessary.
> 
> > @@ -480,8 +481,18 @@ static inline int bio_queue_enter(struct bio *bio)
> >  	struct request_queue *q = bio->bi_bdev->bd_disk->queue;
> >  	bool nowait = bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT;
> >  	int ret;
> > +	blk_mq_req_flags_t flags = nowait ? BLK_MQ_REQ_NOWAIT : 0;
> > +	bool reffed = bio_flagged(bio, BIO_QUEUE_REFFED);
> >  
> > -	ret = blk_queue_enter(q, nowait ? BLK_MQ_REQ_NOWAIT : 0);
> > +	if (!reffed)
> > +		bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_QUEUE_REFFED);
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Grab two queue references for blk-mq, one is for bio, and
> > +	 * another is for blk-mq request.
> > +	 */
> > +	ret = blk_queue_enter(q, q->mq_ops && !reffed ?
> > +			(flags | BLK_MQ_REQ_DOUBLE_REF) : flags);
> 
> Consider rewriting the above code as follows to make it easier to read:
> 
> 	if (q->mq_ops && !reffed)
> 		flags |= BLK_MQ_REQ_DOUBLE_REF;
> 	ret = blk_queue_enter(q, flags);
> 
> Please also expand the comment above this code. The comment only
> explains the reffed == false case but not the reffed == true case. I
> assume that the reffed == true case applies to stacked bio-based drivers?

'reffed == true' means we have got one queue usage count already for
this bio, so only need to grab one usage count for blk-mq request.


Thanks,
Ming




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