Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 4/7] dm: enable synchronous dax

From: Pankaj Gupta
Date: Tue Jun 11 2019 - 09:16:05 EST


Hi Mike,

Thanks for the review Please find my reply inline.

>
> dm_table_supports_dax() is called multiple times (from
> dm_table_set_restrictions and dm_table_determine_type). It is strange
> to have a getter have a side-effect of being a setter too. Overloading
> like this could get you in trouble in the future.
>
> Are you certain this is what you want?

I agree with you.

>
> Or would it be better to refactor dm_table_supports_dax() to take an
> iterate_devices_fn arg and have callers pass the appropriate function?
> Then have dm_table_set_restrictions() caller do:
>
> if (dm_table_supports_dax(t, device_synchronous, NULL))
> set_dax_synchronous(t->md->dax_dev);
>
> (NULL arg implies dm_table_supports_dax() refactoring would take a int
> *data pointer rather than int type).
>
> Mike
>

I am sending below patch as per your suggestion. Does it look
near to what you have in mind?

Thank you,
Pankaj

===============

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
index 350cf0451456..8d89acc8b8c2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ void dm_table_set_type(struct dm_table *t, enum dm_queue_mode type)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_table_set_type);

/* validate the dax capability of the target device span */
-static int device_supports_dax(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
+int device_supports_dax(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
sector_t start, sector_t len, void *data)
{
int blocksize = *(int *) data;
@@ -890,7 +890,15 @@ static int device_supports_dax(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
start, len);
}

-bool dm_table_supports_dax(struct dm_table *t, int blocksize)
+/* Check devices support synchronous DAX */
+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);
+}
+
+bool dm_table_supports_dax(struct dm_table *t,
+ iterate_devices_callout_fn iterate_fn, int *blocksize)
{
struct dm_target *ti;
unsigned i;
@@ -903,8 +911,7 @@ bool dm_table_supports_dax(struct dm_table *t, int blocksize)
return false;

if (!ti->type->iterate_devices ||
- !ti->type->iterate_devices(ti, device_supports_dax,
- &blocksize))
+ !ti->type->iterate_devices(ti, iterate_fn, blocksize))
return false;
}

@@ -940,6 +947,7 @@ static int dm_table_determine_type(struct dm_table *t)
struct dm_target *tgt;
struct list_head *devices = dm_table_get_devices(t);
enum dm_queue_mode live_md_type = dm_get_md_type(t->md);
+ int page_size = PAGE_SIZE;

if (t->type != DM_TYPE_NONE) {
/* target already set the table's type */
@@ -984,7 +992,7 @@ static int dm_table_determine_type(struct dm_table *t)
verify_bio_based:
/* We must use this table as bio-based */
t->type = DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED;
- if (dm_table_supports_dax(t, PAGE_SIZE) ||
+ if (dm_table_supports_dax(t, device_supports_dax, &page_size) ||
(list_empty(devices) && live_md_type == DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED)) {
t->type = DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED;
} else {
@@ -1883,6 +1891,7 @@ void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q,
struct queue_limits *limits)
{
bool wc = false, fua = false;
+ int page_size = PAGE_SIZE;

/*
* Copy table's limits to the DM device's request_queue
@@ -1910,8 +1919,13 @@ void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q,
}
blk_queue_write_cache(q, wc, fua);

- if (dm_table_supports_dax(t, PAGE_SIZE))
+ if (dm_table_supports_dax(t, device_supports_dax, &page_size)) {
+
blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_DAX, q);
+ if (dm_table_supports_dax(t, device_synchronous, NULL))
+ set_dax_synchronous(t->md->dax_dev);
+ }
else
blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_DAX, q);

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index b1caa7188209..b92c42a72ad4 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ static bool dm_dax_supported(struct dax_device *dax_dev, struct block_device *bd
if (!map)
return false;

- ret = dm_table_supports_dax(map, blocksize);
+ ret = dm_table_supports_dax(map, device_supports_dax, &blocksize);

dm_put_live_table(md, srcu_idx);

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.h b/drivers/md/dm.h
index 17e3db54404c..0475673337f3 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.h
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ bool dm_table_bio_based(struct dm_table *t);
bool dm_table_request_based(struct dm_table *t);
void dm_table_free_md_mempools(struct dm_table *t);
struct dm_md_mempools *dm_table_get_md_mempools(struct dm_table *t);
-bool dm_table_supports_dax(struct dm_table *t, int blocksize);
+bool dm_table_supports_dax(struct dm_table *t, iterate_devices_callout_fn fn,
+ int *blocksize);
+int device_supports_dax(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
+ sector_t start, sector_t len, void *data);

void dm_lock_md_type(struct mapped_device *md);
void dm_unlock_md_type(struct mapped_device *md);
--
2.20.1