Re: [PATCH 05/45] xfs: async blkdev cache flush

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On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 03:18:09PM +0530, Chandan Babu R wrote:
> On 05 Mar 2021 at 10:41, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The new checkpoint caceh flush mechanism requires us to issue an
> > unconditional cache flush before we start a new checkpoint. We don't
> > want to block for this if we can help it, and we have a fair chunk
> > of CPU work to do between starting the checkpoint and issuing the
> > first journal IO.
> >
> > Hence it makes sense to amortise the latency cost of the cache flush
> > by issuing it asynchronously and then waiting for it only when we
> > need to issue the first IO in the transaction.
> >
> > TO do this, we need async cache flush primitives to submit the cache
> > flush bio and to wait on it. THe block layer has no such primitives
> > for filesystems, so roll our own for the moment.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/xfs/xfs_bio_io.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h  |  2 ++
> >  2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bio_io.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bio_io.c
> > index 17f36db2f792..668f8bd27b4a 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bio_io.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bio_io.c
> > @@ -9,6 +9,42 @@ static inline unsigned int bio_max_vecs(unsigned int count)
> >  	return bio_max_segs(howmany(count, PAGE_SIZE));
> >  }
> >  
> > +void
> > +xfs_flush_bdev_async_endio(
> > +	struct bio	*bio)
> > +{
> > +	if (bio->bi_private)
> > +		complete(bio->bi_private);
> > +}
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Submit a request for an async cache flush to run. If the request queue does
> > + * not require flush operations, just skip it altogether. If the caller needsi
> > + * to wait for the flush completion at a later point in time, they must supply a
> > + * valid completion. This will be signalled when the flush completes.  The
> > + * caller never sees the bio that is issued here.
> > + */
> > +void
> > +xfs_flush_bdev_async(
> > +	struct bio		*bio,
> > +	struct block_device	*bdev,
> > +	struct completion	*done)
> > +{
> > +	struct request_queue	*q = bdev->bd_disk->queue;
> > +
> > +	if (!test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_WC, &q->queue_flags)) {
> > +		complete(done);
> 
> complete() should be invoked only when "done" has a non-NULL value.

The only caller always provides a completion.

--D

> > +		return;
> > +	}
> 
> -- 
> chandan



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