On 2020/11/20 9:27, John Dorminy wrote: > Greetings; > > There are a lot of uses of PAGE_SIZE/SECTOR_SIZE scattered around, and > it seems like a medium improvement to be able to refer to it as > PAGE_SECTORS everywhere instead of just inside dm, bcache, and > null_blk. Did this change progress forward somewhere? Actually, I'm trying to make further replacements after this patch is applied. But there was no response except Coly Li. > > Thanks! > > John Dorminy > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 3:40 AM Leizhen (ThunderTown) > <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi, Jens Axboe, Alasdair Kergon, Mike Snitzer: >> What's your opinion? >> >> >> On 2020/8/21 15:05, Coly Li wrote: >>> On 2020/8/21 14:48, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 8/21/2020 12:11 PM, Coly Li wrote: >>>>> On 2020/8/21 10:03, Zhen Lei wrote: >>>>>> There are too many PAGE_SECTORS definitions, and all of them are the >>>>>> same. It looks a bit of a mess. So why not move it into <linux/blkdev.h>, >>>>>> to achieve a basic and unique definition. >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> A lazy question about page size > 4KB: currently in bcache code the >>>>> sector size is assumed to be 512 sectors, if kernel page > 4KB, it is >>>>> possible that PAGE_SECTORS in bcache will be a number > 8 ? >>>> >>>> Sorry, I don't fully understand your question. I known that the sector size >>>> can be 512 or 4K, and the PAGE_SIZE can be 4K or 64K. So even if sector size >>>> is 4K, isn't it greater than 8 for 64K pages? >>>> >>>> I'm not sure if the question you're asking is the one Matthew Wilcox has >>>> answered before: >>>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg64345.html >>> >>> Thank you for the above information. Currently bcache code assumes >>> sector size is always 512 bytes, you may see how many "<< 9" or ">> 9" >>> are used. Therefore I doubt whether current code may stably work on e.g. >>> 4Kn SSDs (this is only doubt because I don't have such SSD). >>> >>> Anyway your patch is fine to me. This change to bcache doesn't make >>> thins worse or better, maybe it can be helpful to trigger my above >>> suspicious early if people do have this kind of problem on 4Kn sector SSDs. >>> >>> For the bcache part of this patch, you may add, >>> Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Coly Li >>> >>>>>> --- >>>>>> drivers/block/brd.c | 1 - >>>>>> drivers/block/null_blk_main.c | 1 - >>>>>> drivers/md/bcache/util.h | 2 -- >>>>>> include/linux/blkdev.h | 5 +++-- >>>>>> include/linux/device-mapper.h | 1 - >>>>>> 5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [snipped] >>>>> >>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/util.h b/drivers/md/bcache/util.h >>>>>> index c029f7443190805..55196e0f37c32c6 100644 >>>>>> --- a/drivers/md/bcache/util.h >>>>>> +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/util.h >>>>>> @@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ >>>>>> >>>>>> #include "closure.h" >>>>>> >>>>>> -#define PAGE_SECTORS (PAGE_SIZE / 512) >>>>>> - >>>>>> struct closure; >>>>>> >>>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_BCACHE_DEBUG >>>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h >>>>>> index bb5636cc17b91a7..b068dfc5f2ef0ab 100644 >>>>>> --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h >>>>>> +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h >>>>>> @@ -949,11 +949,12 @@ static inline struct request_queue *bdev_get_queue(struct block_device *bdev) >>>>>> * multiple of 512 bytes. Hence these two constants. >>>>>> */ >>>>>> #ifndef SECTOR_SHIFT >>>>>> -#define SECTOR_SHIFT 9 >>>>>> +#define SECTOR_SHIFT 9 >>>>>> #endif >>>>>> #ifndef SECTOR_SIZE >>>>>> -#define SECTOR_SIZE (1 << SECTOR_SHIFT) >>>>>> +#define SECTOR_SIZE (1 << SECTOR_SHIFT) >>>>>> #endif >>>>>> +#define PAGE_SECTORS (PAGE_SIZE / SECTOR_SIZE) >>>>>> >>>>>> /* >>>>>> * blk_rq_pos() : the current sector >>>>> [snipped] >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> . >>> >> > > > . >
