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From: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>,
	Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>,
	Ming Lei <[email protected]>,
	Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>,
	Alexander Viro <[email protected]>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <[email protected]>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <[email protected]>,
	Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected]
Subject: [PATCH v2 7/7] bio: don't copy bvec for direct IO
Date: Sat,  2 Jan 2021 15:17:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29ed343fa15eb4139f8ab9104d3f9b16fe025dfd.1609461359.git.asml.silence@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

The block layer spends quite a while in blkdev_direct_IO() to copy and
initialise bio's bvec. However, if we've already got a bvec in the input
iterator it might be reused in some cases, i.e. when new
ITER_BVEC_FLAG_FIXED flag is set. Simple tests show considerable
performance boost, and it also reduces memory footprint.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst |  9 ++++
 block/bio.c                           | 67 ++++++++++++---------------
 include/linux/bio.h                   |  5 +-
 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index c722d94f29ea..1f8cf8e10b34 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -872,3 +872,12 @@ its result is kern_unmount() or kern_unmount_array().
 
 zero-length bvec segments are disallowed, they must be filtered out before
 passed on to an iterator.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+For bvec based itererators bio_iov_iter_get_pages() now doesn't copy bvecs but
+uses the one provided. Anyone issuing kiocb-I/O should ensure that the bvec and
+page references stay until I/O has completed, i.e. until ->ki_complete() has
+been called or returned with non -EIOCBQUEUED code.
diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 9f26984af643..6f031a04b59a 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -960,21 +960,17 @@ void bio_release_pages(struct bio *bio, bool mark_dirty)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bio_release_pages);
 
-static int __bio_iov_bvec_add_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
+static int bio_iov_bvec_set(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
 {
-	const struct bio_vec *bv = iter->bvec;
-	unsigned int len;
-	size_t size;
-
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(iter->iov_offset > bv->bv_len))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	len = min_t(size_t, bv->bv_len - iter->iov_offset, iter->count);
-	size = bio_add_page(bio, bv->bv_page, len,
-				bv->bv_offset + iter->iov_offset);
-	if (unlikely(size != len))
-		return -EINVAL;
-	iov_iter_advance(iter, size);
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(BVEC_POOL_IDX(bio) != 0);
+
+	bio->bi_vcnt = iter->nr_segs;
+	bio->bi_max_vecs = iter->nr_segs;
+	bio->bi_io_vec = (struct bio_vec *)iter->bvec;
+	bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done = iter->iov_offset;
+	bio->bi_iter.bi_size = iter->count;
+
+	iov_iter_advance(iter, iter->count);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1088,12 +1084,12 @@ static int __bio_iov_append_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
  * This takes either an iterator pointing to user memory, or one pointing to
  * kernel pages (BVEC iterator). If we're adding user pages, we pin them and
  * map them into the kernel. On IO completion, the caller should put those
- * pages. If we're adding kernel pages, and the caller told us it's safe to
- * do so, we just have to add the pages to the bio directly. We don't grab an
- * extra reference to those pages (the user should already have that), and we
- * don't put the page on IO completion. The caller needs to check if the bio is
- * flagged BIO_NO_PAGE_REF on IO completion. If it isn't, then pages should be
- * released.
+ * pages. For bvec based iterators bio_iov_iter_get_pages() uses the provided
+ * bvecs rather than copying them. Hence anyone issuing kiocb based IO needs
+ * to ensure the bvecs and pages stay referenced until the submitted I/O is
+ * completed by a call to ->ki_complete() or returns with an error other than
+ * -EIOCBQUEUED. The caller needs to check if the bio is flagged BIO_NO_PAGE_REF
+ * on IO completion. If it isn't, then pages should be released.
  *
  * The function tries, but does not guarantee, to pin as many pages as
  * fit into the bio, or are requested in @iter, whatever is smaller. If
@@ -1105,27 +1101,22 @@ static int __bio_iov_append_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
  */
 int bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
 {
-	const bool is_bvec = iov_iter_is_bvec(iter);
-	int ret;
-
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(bio->bi_vcnt))
-		return -EINVAL;
+	int ret = 0;
 
-	do {
-		if (bio_op(bio) == REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND) {
-			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(is_bvec))
-				return -EINVAL;
-			ret = __bio_iov_append_get_pages(bio, iter);
-		} else {
-			if (is_bvec)
-				ret = __bio_iov_bvec_add_pages(bio, iter);
+	if (iov_iter_is_bvec(iter)) {
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(bio_op(bio) == REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND))
+			return -EINVAL;
+		bio_iov_bvec_set(bio, iter);
+		bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_NO_PAGE_REF);
+		return 0;
+	} else {
+		do {
+			if (bio_op(bio) == REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND)
+				ret = __bio_iov_append_get_pages(bio, iter);
 			else
 				ret = __bio_iov_iter_get_pages(bio, iter);
-		}
-	} while (!ret && iov_iter_count(iter) && !bio_full(bio, 0));
-
-	if (is_bvec)
-		bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_NO_PAGE_REF);
+		} while (!ret && iov_iter_count(iter) && !bio_full(bio, 0));
+	}
 
 	/* don't account direct I/O as memory stall */
 	bio_clear_flag(bio, BIO_WORKINGSET);
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index d8f9077c43ef..1d30572a8c53 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -444,10 +444,13 @@ static inline void bio_wouldblock_error(struct bio *bio)
 
 /*
  * Calculate number of bvec segments that should be allocated to fit data
- * pointed by @iter.
+ * pointed by @iter. If @iter is backed by bvec it's going to be reused
+ * instead of allocating a new one.
  */
 static inline int bio_iov_vecs_to_alloc(struct iov_iter *iter, int max_segs)
 {
+	if (iov_iter_is_bvec(iter))
+		return 0;
 	return iov_iter_npages(iter, max_segs);
 }
 
-- 
2.24.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-02 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-02 15:17 [PATCH v2 0/7] no-copy bvec Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] splice: don't generate zero-len segement bvecs Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-04 16:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-04 16:54     ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] bvec/iter: disallow zero-length segment bvecs Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-04 16:18   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-04 16:37   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-04 17:23     ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] block/psi: remove PSI annotations from direct IO Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-04 16:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] target/file: allocate the bvec array as part of struct target_core_file_cmd Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] iov_iter: optimise bvec iov_iter_advance() Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] bio: add a helper calculating nr segments to alloc Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` Pavel Begunkov [this message]
2021-01-04 16:20   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] bio: don't copy bvec for direct IO Christoph Hellwig

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