On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:53:08PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > - > > - if (page == bv->bv_page && off == bv->bv_offset + bv->bv_len) { > > - bv->bv_len += len; > > - bio->bi_iter.bi_size += len; > > - return true; > > - } > > + struct request_queue *q = NULL; > > + > > + if (page == bv->bv_page && off == (bv->bv_offset + bv->bv_len) > > + && (off + len) <= PAGE_SIZE) > > How could the page struct be the same, but the range beyond PAGE_SIZE > (at least with the existing callers)? > > Also no need for the inner btraces, and the && always goes on the > first line. OK. > > > + if (bio->bi_disk) > > + q = bio->bi_disk->queue; > > + > > + /* disable multi-page bvec too if cluster isn't enabled */ > > + if (!q || !blk_queue_cluster(q) || > > + ((page_to_phys(bv->bv_page) + bv->bv_offset + bv->bv_len) != > > + (page_to_phys(page) + off))) > > + return false; > > + merge: > > + bv->bv_len += len; > > + bio->bi_iter.bi_size += len; > > + return true; > > Ok, this is scary, as it will give differen results depending on when > bi_disk is assigned. It is just merge or not, both can be handled well now. > But then again we shouldn't really do the cluster > check here, but rather when splitting the bio for the actual low-level > driver. Yeah, I thought of this way too, but it may cause tons of bio split for no-clustering, and there are quite a few scsi devices which require to disable clustering. [linux]$ git grep -n DISABLE_CLUSTERING ./drivers/scsi/ | wc -l 28 Or we may introduce bio_split_to_single_page_bvec() to allocate & convert to single-page bvec table for non-clustering, will try this approach in next version. > > (and eventually we should kill this clustering setting off in favor > of our normal segment limits). Yeah, it has been in my post-multi-page todo list already, :-) thanks, Ming