Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 2 authors, 2021-06-07

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] bcache: avoid oversized read request in cache missing code path

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-06-07 12:08:28
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 07:55:22PM +0800, Coly Li wrote:
On 6/7/21 7:06 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 06:35:39PM +0800, Coly Li wrote:
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+	/* Limitation for valid replace key size and cache_bio bvecs number */
+	size_limit = min_t(unsigned int, bio_max_segs(UINT_MAX) * PAGE_SECTORS,
+			   (1 << KEY_SIZE_BITS) - 1);
bio_max_segs kaps the argument to BIO_MAX_VECS, so you might as well
It was suggested to not directly access BIO_MAX_VECS by you, maybe I
misunderstood you.
Yes, drivers really should not care about it.  But hiding that behind
a tiny wrapper doesn't help either.
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directly write BIO_MAX_VECS.  Can you explain the PAGE_SECTORS here a bit
more? Does this code path use discontiguous per-sector allocations?
Preferably in a comment.

It is just because bch_bio_map() assume the maximum bio size is 1MB. It
was not true since the multiple pages bvecs
was merged in mainline kernel.
 
The PAGE_SECTORS part is legacy for 1MB maximum size bio (256*4KB), it
should be fixed/improved later to
use multiple pages for bio size > 1MB and replace bch_bio_map().
bch_bio_map and bch_bio_alloc_pages that poke directly into the bio are
the root cause of a lot of these problems.

I had a series fixing some of that but Kent did not like it.  Drivers must
not diretly access bi_vcnt or directly build bios.
Not any more. Now the line limit is 100 characters. Though I still
prefer 80 characters, place 86 characters in single line
makes the change more obvious.
It makes it really hard to read in a normal terminal.
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