Re: [PATCH v7 6/6] loop: Add support for REQ_ALLOCATE

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Thu Feb 13 2020 - 13:12:29 EST


On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:39:35AM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> Support for new modifier of REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES command.
> This results in allocation extents in backing file instead
> of actual blocks zeroing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/block/loop.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
> index 739b372a5112..0704167a5aaa 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
> @@ -581,6 +581,16 @@ static int lo_rw_aio(struct loop_device *lo, struct loop_cmd *cmd,
> return 0;
> }
>

Urgh, I meant "copy the comment directly to here", e.g.

/*
* Convert REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES modifiers into fallocate mode
*
* If the caller requires allocation, select that mode. If the caller
* doesn't want deallocation, call zeroout to write zeroes the range.
* Otherwise, punch out the blocks.
*/

The goal here is to reinforce the notion that FL_ZERO_RANGE is how we
achieve nounmap zeroing...

--D

> +static unsigned int write_zeroes_to_fallocate_mode(unsigned int flags)
> +{
> + if (flags & REQ_ALLOCATE)
> + return 0;
> + if (flags & REQ_NOUNMAP)
> + return FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE;
> + return FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE;
> +}
> +
> static int do_req_filebacked(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq)
> {
> struct loop_cmd *cmd = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(rq);
> @@ -599,14 +609,8 @@ static int do_req_filebacked(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq)
> case REQ_OP_FLUSH:
> return lo_req_flush(lo, rq);
> case REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES:
> - /*
> - * If the caller doesn't want deallocation, call zeroout to
> - * write zeroes the range. Otherwise, punch them out.
> - */
> return lo_fallocate(lo, rq, pos,
> - (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_NOUNMAP) ?
> - FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE :
> - FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE);
> + write_zeroes_to_fallocate_mode(rq->cmd_flags));
> case REQ_OP_DISCARD:
> return lo_fallocate(lo, rq, pos, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE);
> case REQ_OP_WRITE:
> @@ -877,6 +881,7 @@ static void loop_config_discard(struct loop_device *lo)
> q->limits.discard_alignment = 0;
> blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(q, 0);
> blk_queue_max_write_zeroes_sectors(q, 0);
> + blk_queue_max_allocate_sectors(q, 0);
> blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, q);
> return;
> }
> @@ -886,6 +891,7 @@ static void loop_config_discard(struct loop_device *lo)
>
> blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(q, UINT_MAX >> 9);
> blk_queue_max_write_zeroes_sectors(q, UINT_MAX >> 9);
> + blk_queue_max_allocate_sectors(q, UINT_MAX >> 9);
> blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, q);
> }
>
>
>