On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 10:50:26AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 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
>
Are you planning to send a new version of this patch?
- Eric
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