[dm-devel] [PATCH v14 03/11] block: add copy offload support

Bart Van Assche bvanassche at acm.org
Fri Aug 11 14:33:35 PDT 2023


On 8/11/23 03:52, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
> + * Description:
> + *	Copy source offset to destination offset within block device, using
> + *	device's native copy offload feature.

Offloading the copy operation is not guaranteed so I think that needs to 
be reflected in the above comment.

> + *	We perform copy operation by sending 2 bio's.
> + *	1. We take a plug and send a REQ_OP_COPY_SRC bio along with source
> + *	sector and length. Once this bio reaches request layer, we form a
> + *	request and wait for dst bio to arrive.

What will happen if the queue depth of the request queue at the bottom 
is one?

> +		blk_start_plug(&plug);
> +		dst_bio = blk_next_bio(src_bio, bdev, 0, REQ_OP_COPY_DST, gfp);

blk_next_bio() can return NULL so its return value should be checked.

> +		dst_bio->bi_iter.bi_size = chunk;
> +		dst_bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = pos_out >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
> +		dst_bio->bi_end_io = blkdev_copy_offload_dst_endio;
> +		dst_bio->bi_private = offload_io;

Thanks,

Bart.




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