Re: [PATCH v9 4/7] dm: enable synchronous dax

From: Dan Williams
Date: Wed May 15 2019 - 16:51:01 EST


[ add Mike and dm-devel ]

Mike, any concerns with the below addition to the device-mapper-dax
implementation?

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 7:58 AM Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch sets dax device 'DAXDEV_SYNC' flag if all the target
> devices of device mapper support synchrononous DAX. If device
> mapper consists of both synchronous and asynchronous dax devices,
> we don't set 'DAXDEV_SYNC' flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/md/dm-table.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> index cde3b49b2a91..1cce626ff576 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> @@ -886,10 +886,17 @@ static int device_supports_dax(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
> return bdev_dax_supported(dev->bdev, PAGE_SIZE);
> }
>
> +static int device_synchronous(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
> + sector_t start, sector_t len, void *data)
> +{
> + return dax_synchronous(dev->dax_dev);
> +}
> +
> static bool dm_table_supports_dax(struct dm_table *t)
> {
> struct dm_target *ti;
> unsigned i;
> + bool dax_sync = true;
>
> /* Ensure that all targets support DAX. */
> for (i = 0; i < dm_table_get_num_targets(t); i++) {
> @@ -901,7 +908,14 @@ static bool dm_table_supports_dax(struct dm_table *t)
> if (!ti->type->iterate_devices ||
> !ti->type->iterate_devices(ti, device_supports_dax, NULL))
> return false;
> +
> + /* Check devices support synchronous DAX */
> + if (dax_sync &&
> + !ti->type->iterate_devices(ti, device_synchronous, NULL))
> + dax_sync = false;
> }
> + if (dax_sync)
> + set_dax_synchronous(t->md->dax_dev);
>
> return true;
> }
> --
> 2.20.1
>