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