[dm-devel] [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

[Ming Lin]

On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 15:59 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18 2015 at  1:32pm -0400,
> Ming Lin <mlin at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 10:45 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 18 2015 at  3:04am -0400,
> > > Ming Lin <mlin at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Ming Lin <mlin at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > >> p.s. I'll be working with Joe Thornber on optimizing DM (particularly
> > > > >> dm-thinp and dm-cache) once this patchset is included upstream.  You'll
> > > > >> see I've already added a couple WIP dm-thinp patches ontop.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Mike,
> > > > >
> > > > > Just to avoid duplicated work.
> > > > > Are you going to work on the dm-thinp/dm-cache discard rewritten?
> > > > 
> > > > Seems dm-stripe discard also needs rewrite.
> > > 
> > > Can you elaborate on what you feel needs re-writing in these targets?
> > 
> > dm-stripe also require discard size to be a multiple of chunk size.
> > See output of below debug patch for 4G discard.
> > 
> > root at bee:~# blkdiscard -o 0 -l 4294967296 /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume
> > 
> > root at bee:~# dmesg |grep DEBUG
> > [   13.110224] DEBUG: discard ignored: stripe chunk size 128K bytes, bio size 512 bytes
> > [   13.113723] DEBUG: discard ignored: stripe chunk size 128K bytes, bio size 512 bytes
> > [   13.117098] DEBUG: discard ignored: stripe chunk size 128K bytes, bio size 512 bytes
> > [   13.120424] DEBUG: discard ignored: stripe chunk size 128K bytes, bio size 512 bytes
> > [   13.123800] DEBUG: discard ignored: stripe chunk size 128K bytes, bio size 512 bytes
> > [   13.127027] DEBUG: discard ignored: stripe chunk size 128K bytes, bio size 512 bytes
> > [   13.130161] DEBUG: discard ignored: stripe chunk size 128K bytes, bio size 512 bytes
> > 
> > diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
> > index bd40292..1cab2ba 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-lib.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-lib.c
> > @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ int blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
> >  			break;
> >  		}
> >  
> > -		req_sects = min_t(sector_t, nr_sects, MAX_BIO_SECTORS);
> > +		req_sects = min_t(sector_t, nr_sects, UINT_MAX>>9);
> >  		end_sect = sector + req_sects;
> >  
> >  		bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = sector;
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-stripe.c b/drivers/md/dm-stripe.c
> > index 484029d..a288bc2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/dm-stripe.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-stripe.c
> > @@ -273,6 +273,8 @@ static int stripe_map_range(struct stripe_c *sc, struct bio *bio,
> >  		return DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED;
> >  	} else {
> >  		/* The range doesn't map to the target stripe */
> > +		printk("DEBUG: discard ignored: stripe chunk size %dK bytes, bio size %d bytes\n",
> > +			sc->chunk_size>>1, bio->bi_iter.bi_size);
> >  		bio_endio(bio);
> >  		return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
> >  	}
> 
> This is expected.  If a discard is only 512 bytes and the chunk size is
> 128K then every discard will only ever hit one stripe.

The discard was actually 4G bytes.
# blkdiscard -o 0 \
      -l 4294967296 /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume

In the above debug patch, I changed MAX_BIO_SECTORS to UINT_MAX>>9
to show the problem.

The 512 bytes comes from blkdev_issue_discard() split the 4G bytes to
(UINT_MAX>>9) sectors + 1 sector.

> 
> So each discard will have N - 1 "discard ignored" messages (when N is #
> of stripes in the dm-stripe device).  So in your test device I'd assume
> you have 8 stripes.

Yes.

> 
> Basically your debugging looks like it is _very_ prone to false
> positives here.  The dm-stripe code is working as expected.

With current 2G cap in blkdev_issue_discard(), dm-stripe works OK.
But if in future we change it to UINT_MAX, then dm-stripe discard will
have problem as dm-thinp/dm-cache.