Hi, This patchset brings multipage bvec into block layer: 1) what is multipage bvec? Multipage bvecs means that one 'struct bio_bvec' can hold multiple pages which are physically contiguous instead of one single page used in linux kernel for long time. 2) why is multipage bvec introduced? Kent proposed the idea[1] first. As system's RAM becomes much bigger than before, and at the same time huge page, transparent huge page and memory compaction are widely used, it is a bit easy now to see physically contiguous pages from fs in I/O. On the other hand, from block layer's view, it isn't necessary to store intermediate pages into bvec, and it is enough to just store the physicallly contiguous 'segment' in each io vector. Also huge pages are being brought to filesystem and swap [2][6], we can do IO on a hugepage each time[3], which requires that one bio can transfer at least one huge page one time. Turns out it isn't flexiable to change BIO_MAX_PAGES simply[3][5]. Multipage bvec can fit in this case very well. With multipage bvec: - segment handling in block layer can be improved much in future since it should be quite easy to convert multipage bvec into segment easily. For example, we might just store segment in each bvec directly in future. - bio size can be increased and it should improve some high-bandwidth IO case in theory[4]. - Inside block layer, both bio splitting and sg map can become more efficient than before by just traversing the physically contiguous 'segment' instead of each page. - there is opportunity in future to improve memory footprint of bvecs. 3) how is multipage bvec implemented in this patchset? The 1st 18 patches comment on some special cases and deal with some special cases of direct access to bvec table. The 2nd part(19~29) implements multipage bvec in block layer: - put all tricks into bvec/bio/rq iterators, and as far as drivers and fs use these standard iterators, they are happy with multipage bvec - use multipage bvec to split bio and map sg - bio_for_each_segment_all() changes this helper pass pointer of each bvec directly to user, and it has to be changed. Two new helpers(bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() and bio_for_each_segment_all_mp()) are introduced. The 3rd part(30~49) convert current users of bio_for_each_segment_all() to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp()/bio_for_each_segment_all_mp(). The last part(50~51) enables multipage bvec. These patches can be found in the following git tree: https://github.com/ming1/linux/commits/mp-bvec-1.4-v4.12-rc Thanks Christoph for looking at the early version and providing very good suggestions, such as: introduce bio_init_with_vec_table(), remove another unnecessary helpers for cleanup and so on. Any comments are welcome! V2: - bvec table direct access in raid has been cleaned, so NO_MP flag is dropped - rebase on recent Neil Brown's change on bio and bounce code - reorganize the patchset V1: - against v4.10-rc1 and some cleanup in V0 are in -linus already - handle queue_virt_boundary() in mp bvec change and make NVMe happy - further BTRFS cleanup - remove QUEUE_FLAG_SPLIT_MP - rename for two new helpers of bio_for_each_segment_all() - fix bounce convertion - address comments in V0 [1], http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141680246629547&w=2 [2], https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9451523/ [3], http://marc.info/?t=147735447100001&r=1&w=2 [4], http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=147745525801433&w=2 [5], http://marc.info/?t=149569484500007&r=1&w=2 [6], http://marc.info/?t=149820215300004&r=1&w=2 Ming Lei (51): block: drbd: comment on direct access bvec table block: loop: comment on direct access to bvec table kernel/power/swap.c: comment on direct access to bvec table mm: page_io.c: comment on direct access to bvec table fs/buffer: comment on direct access to bvec table f2fs: f2fs_read_end_io: comment on direct access to bvec table bcache: comment on direct access to bvec table block: comment on bio_alloc_pages() block: comment on bio_iov_iter_get_pages() dm: limit the max bio size as BIO_MAX_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE md: raid1: initialize bvec table via bio_add_page() md: raid10: avoid to access bvec table directly btrfs: avoid access to .bi_vcnt directly btrfs: avoid to access bvec table directly for a cloned bio btrfs: comment on direct access bvec table block: bounce: avoid direct access to bvec table bvec_iter: introduce BVEC_ITER_ALL_INIT block: bounce: don't access bio->bi_io_vec in copy_to_high_bio_irq block: comments on bio_for_each_segment[_all] block: introduce multipage/single page bvec helpers block: implement sp version of bvec iterator helpers block: introduce bio_for_each_segment_mp() blk-merge: compute bio->bi_seg_front_size efficiently block: blk-merge: try to make front segments in full size block: blk-merge: remove unnecessary check block: use bio_for_each_segment_mp() to compute segments count block: use bio_for_each_segment_mp() to map sg block: introduce bvec_for_each_sp_bvec() block: bio: introduce single/multi page version of bio_for_each_segment_all() block: introduce bvec_get_last_page() fs/buffer.c: use bvec iterator to truncate the bio btrfs: use bvec_get_last_page to get bio's last page block: deal with dirtying pages for multipage bvec block: convert to singe/multi page version of bio_for_each_segment_all() bcache: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() md: raid1: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() dm-crypt: don't clear bvec->bv_page in crypt_free_buffer_pages() dm-crypt: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() fs/mpage: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() fs/block: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() fs/iomap: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() ext4: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() xfs: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() gfs2: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() f2fs: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() exofs: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() fs: crypto: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() fs/btrfs: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() fs/direct-io: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_sp() block: enable multipage bvecs block: bio: pass segments to bio if bio_add_page() is bypassed block/bio.c | 137 ++++++++++++++++++++---- block/blk-merge.c | 226 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- block/blk-zoned.c | 5 +- block/bounce.c | 35 +++--- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c | 1 + drivers/block/loop.c | 5 + drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 4 +- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 6 ++ drivers/md/bcache/util.c | 7 ++ drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm.c | 11 +- drivers/md/raid1.c | 30 +++--- drivers/md/raid10.c | 22 +++- fs/block_dev.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/compression.c | 12 ++- fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 3 +- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 39 +++++-- fs/btrfs/extent_io.h | 2 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 22 +++- fs/btrfs/raid56.c | 6 +- fs/buffer.c | 11 +- fs/crypto/bio.c | 3 +- fs/direct-io.c | 4 +- fs/exofs/ore.c | 3 +- fs/exofs/ore_raid.c | 3 +- fs/ext4/page-io.c | 3 +- fs/ext4/readpage.c | 3 +- fs/f2fs/data.c | 13 ++- fs/gfs2/lops.c | 3 +- fs/gfs2/meta_io.c | 3 +- fs/iomap.c | 3 +- fs/mpage.c | 3 +- fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 3 +- include/linux/bio.h | 72 +++++++++++-- include/linux/blk_types.h | 6 ++ include/linux/bvec.h | 142 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- kernel/power/swap.c | 2 + mm/page_io.c | 2 + 38 files changed, 714 insertions(+), 151 deletions(-) -- 2.9.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. 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