On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 02:02:33AM +0000, xianrong.zhou(周先荣) wrote:
> hey Eric:
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:32:40AM +0800, zhou xianrong wrote:
> > From: "xianrong.zhou" <xianrong.zhou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > If check_at_most_once enabled, just like verity work the prefetching
> > work should check for data block bitmap firstly before reading hash
> > block as well. Skip bit-set data blocks from both ends of data block
> > range by testing the validated bitmap. This can reduce the amounts of
> > data blocks which need to read hash blocks.
> >
> > Launching 91 apps every 15s and repeat 21 rounds on Android Q.
> > In prefetching work we can let only 2602/360312 = 0.72% data blocks
> > really need to read hash blocks.
> >
> > But the reduced data blocks range would be enlarged again by
> > dm_verity_prefetch_cluster later.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: xianrong.zhou <xianrong.zhou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: yuanjiong.gao <yuanjiong.gao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: ruxian.feng <ruxian.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> > b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c index 4fb33e7562c5..7b8eb754c0b6
> > 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> > @@ -581,6 +581,22 @@ static void verity_prefetch_io(struct work_struct *work)
> > struct dm_verity *v = pw->v;
> > int i;
> >
> > + if (v->validated_blocks) {
> > + while (pw->n_blocks) {
> > + if (unlikely(!test_bit(pw->block, v->validated_blocks)))
> > + break;
> > + pw->block++;
> > + pw->n_blocks--;
> > + }
> > + while (pw->n_blocks) {
> > + if (unlikely(!test_bit(pw->block + pw->n_blocks - 1,
> > + v->validated_blocks)))
> > + break;
> > + pw->n_blocks--;
> > + }
> > + if (!pw->n_blocks)
> > + return;
> > + }
>
> This is a good idea, but shouldn't this logic go in verity_submit_prefetch()
> prior to the struct dm_verity_prefetch_work being allocated? Then if no
> prefeching is needed, allocating and scheduling the work object can be
> skipped.
>
> Eric, Do you mean it is more suitable in dm_bufio_prefetch which is called on
> different paths even though prefeching is disabled ?
>
No, I'm talking about verity_submit_prefetch(). verity_submit_prefetch()
allocates and schedules a work object, which executes verity_prefetch_io().
If all data blocks in the I/O request were already validated, there's no need to
allocate and schedule the prefetch work.
- Eric
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