[dm-devel] [PATCH 6/6] dm-snapshot: use bufio prefetch

[Mike Snitzer]

On Mon, Jan 13 2014 at  7:14pm -0500,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com> wrote:

> This patch modifies dm-snapshot so that it prefetches the buffers when
> loading the exceptions.
> 
> The number of buffers read ahead is specified in the DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS
> macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c |   22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-3.13-rc7/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-3.13-rc7.orig/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c	2014-01-14 00:54:52.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-3.13-rc7/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c	2014-01-14 00:56:39.000000000 +0100
> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
>  #define DM_MSG_PREFIX "persistent snapshot"
>  #define DM_CHUNK_SIZE_DEFAULT_SECTORS 32	/* 16KB */
>  
> +#define DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS		12
> +
>  /*-----------------------------------------------------------------
>   * Persistent snapshots, by persistent we mean that the snapshot
>   * will survive a reboot.
...
> @@ -504,6 +507,8 @@ static int read_exceptions(struct pstore
>  	if (IS_ERR(client))
>  		return PTR_ERR(client);
>  
> +	dm_bufio_set_minimum_buffers(client, DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS + 1);
> +

Why the +1?  I'd prefer that be managed in dm-bufio rather than relying
on all callers to know to add +1.

Can you supply a followup patch that cleans this up in bufio and remove
the +1 in the above dm_bufio_set_minimum_buffers call?