On 11/29/18 3:05 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, Mike Snitzer wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 27 2018 at 7:42pm -0500, >> Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Now when part_round_stats is gone, we can switch to per-cpu in-flight >>> counters. >>> >>> We use the local-atomic type local_t, so that if part_inc_in_flight or >>> part_dec_in_flight is reentrantly called from an interrupt, the value will >>> be correct. >>> >>> The other counters could be corrupted due to reentrant interrupt, but the >>> corruption only results in slight counter skew - the in_flight counter >>> must be exact, so it needs local_t. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> --- >>> block/bio.c | 4 ++-- >>> block/blk-core.c | 4 ++-- >>> block/blk-merge.c | 2 +- >>> block/genhd.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ >>> drivers/md/dm.c | 4 +--- >>> include/linux/genhd.h | 7 ++++--- >>> 6 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) >>> >> ... >>> Index: linux-block/drivers/md/dm.c >>> =================================================================== >>> --- linux-block.orig/drivers/md/dm.c 2018-11-28 00:09:59.000000000 +0100 >>> +++ linux-block/drivers/md/dm.c 2018-11-28 00:09:59.000000000 +0100 >>> @@ -663,8 +663,7 @@ static void start_io_acct(struct dm_io * >>> generic_start_io_acct(md->queue, bio_op(bio), bio_sectors(bio), >>> &dm_disk(md)->part0); >>> >>> - atomic_set(&dm_disk(md)->part0.in_flight[rw], >>> - atomic_inc_return(&md->pending[rw])); >>> + atomic_inc(&md->pending[rw]); >>> >>> if (unlikely(dm_stats_used(&md->stats))) >>> dm_stats_account_io(&md->stats, bio_data_dir(bio), >>> @@ -693,7 +692,6 @@ static void end_io_acct(struct dm_io *io >>> * a flush. >>> */ >>> pending = atomic_dec_return(&md->pending[rw]); >>> - atomic_set(&dm_disk(md)->part0.in_flight[rw], pending); >>> pending += atomic_read(&md->pending[rw^0x1]); >>> >>> /* nudge anyone waiting on suspend queue */ >>> >> >> >> These dm.c hunks conflict with changes from you that I already staged in >> dm-4.21, see: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.21&id=b5616f7a11592cc74860f4ec3e3c4fba6688eefa >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.21&id=78f95b53c203c969bbe6b86e405f7a891a43b6be >> >> I'd really like to get away from DM maintaining its own ->pending >> counters. >> >> Mike > > I know. > > It depends on whether Jens takes these patches or not. If he doesn't take > them, dm will use percpu counters on its own and it will return zero in > the "/sys/block/dm-*/inflight" file. This reply is the first I've seen of them?! Oh, they are in gmail spam. This happened with your last patches as well, you might want to look into that. I'll take a look at them later today. -- Jens Axboe
