[dm-devel] [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] dm: support bio polling

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 06:35:49PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * Only support bio polling for normal IO, and the target io is
> +	 * exactly inside the dm io instance
> +	 */
> +	ci->io->submit_as_polled = !!(ci->bio->bi_opf & REQ_POLLED);

Nit: the !! is not needed.

> @@ -1608,6 +1625,22 @@ static void init_clone_info(struct clone_info *ci, struct mapped_device *md,
>  	ci->map = map;
>  	ci->io = alloc_io(md, bio);
>  	ci->sector = bio->bi_iter.bi_sector;
> +
> +	if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_POLLED) {
> +		INIT_HLIST_NODE(&ci->io->node);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Save .bi_end_io into dm_io, so that we can reuse .bi_end_io
> +		 * for storing dm_io list
> +		 */
> +		if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_SAVED_END_IO) {
> +			ci->io->saved_bio_end_io = NULL;

So if it already was saved the list gets cleared here?  Can you explain
this logic a little more?

> +		} else {
> +			ci->io->saved_bio_end_io = bio->bi_end_io;
> +			INIT_HLIST_HEAD((struct hlist_head *)&bio->bi_end_io);

I think you want to hide these casts in helpers that clearly document
why this is safe rather than sprinkling the casts all over the code.
I also wonder if there is any better way to structur this.

> +static int dm_poll_bio(struct bio *bio, unsigned int flags)
> +{
> +	struct dm_io *io;
> +	void *saved_bi_end_io = NULL;
> +	struct hlist_head tmp = HLIST_HEAD_INIT;
> +	struct hlist_head *head = (struct hlist_head *)&bio->bi_end_io;
> +	struct hlist_node *next;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * This bio can be submitted from FS as POLLED so that FS may keep
> +	 * polling even though the flag is cleared by bio splitting or
> +	 * requeue, so return immediately.
> +	 */
> +	if (!(bio->bi_opf & REQ_POLLED))
> +		return 0;

I can't really parse the comment, can you explain this a little more?
But if we need this check, shouldn't it move to bio_poll()?

> +	hlist_for_each_entry(io, &tmp, node) {
> +		if (io->saved_bio_end_io && !saved_bi_end_io) {
> +			saved_bi_end_io = io->saved_bio_end_io;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +	}

So it seems like you don't use bi_cookie at all.  Why not turn
bi_cookie into a union to stash the hlist_head and use that?