Re: [PATCH] block: Remove special-casing of compound pages

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On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 03:41:00PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
>  void __bio_release_pages(struct bio *bio, bool mark_dirty)
>  {
> -	struct bvec_iter_all iter_all;
> -	struct bio_vec *bvec;
> +	struct folio_iter fi;
> +
> +	bio_for_each_folio_all(fi, bio) {
> +		struct page *page;
> +		size_t done = 0;
>  
> -	bio_for_each_segment_all(bvec, bio, iter_all) {
> -		if (mark_dirty && !PageCompound(bvec->bv_page))
> -			set_page_dirty_lock(bvec->bv_page);
> -		bio_release_page(bio, bvec->bv_page);
> +		if (mark_dirty) {
> +			folio_lock(fi.folio);
> +			folio_mark_dirty(fi.folio);
> +			folio_unlock(fi.folio);
> +		}
> +		page = folio_page(fi.folio, fi.offset / PAGE_SIZE);
> +		do {
> +			bio_release_page(bio, page++);
> +			done += PAGE_SIZE;
> +		} while (done < fi.length);
>  	}
>  }

Is it okay to release same-folio pages while creating the bio instead of
releasing all the pages at the completion? If so, the completion could
provide just the final bio_release_page() instead looping. I'm more
confirming if that's an appropriate way to use folios here.




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