On Fri, Dec 04 2020 at 12:32P -0500,
Mike Snitzer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 04 2020 at 11:47P -0500,
> Mike Snitzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 03 2020 at 10:59pm -0500,
> > Ming Lei <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:03:43PM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > > > Stacking chunk_sectors seems ill-conceived.  One size-fits-all splitting
> > > > is too rigid.
> > > 
> > > DM/VDO knows exactly it is one hard chunk_sectors limit, and DM shouldn't 
> > > play
> > > the stacking trick on VDO's chunk_sectors limit, should it?
> > 
> > Feel like I already answered this in detail but... correct, DM cannot
> > and should not use stacked chunk_sectors as basis for splitting.
> > 
> > Up until 5.9, where I changed DM core to set and then use chunk_sectors
> > for splitting via blk_max_size_offset(), DM only used its own per-target
> > ti->max_io_len in drivers/md/dm.c:max_io_len().
> > 
> > But I reverted back to DM's pre-5.9 splitting in this stable@ fix that
> > I'll be sending to Linus today for 5.10-rcX:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-5.10-rcX&id=6bb38bcc33bf3093c08bd1b71e4f20c82bb60dd1
> > 
> > DM is now back to pre-5.9 behavior where it doesn't even consider
> > chunk_sectors for splitting (NOTE: dm-zoned sets ti->max_io_len though
> > so it is effectively achieves the same boundary splits via max_io_len).
> 
> Last question for all, I'd be fine with the following fix instead of
> the above referenced commit 6bb38bcc33. It'd allow DM to continue to
> use blk_max_size_offset(), any opinions?
> 
> From: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 12:03:25 -0500
> Subject: [RFC PATCH] dm: fix IO splitting
> 
> FIXME: add proper header
> Add chunk_sectors override to blk_max_size_offset().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
> ---
>  block/blk-merge.c      |  2 +-
>  drivers/md/dm-table.c  |  5 -----
>  drivers/md/dm.c        | 19 +++++++++++--------
>  include/linux/blkdev.h |  9 +++++----
>  4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
> index bcf5e4580603..97b7c2821565 100644
> --- a/block/blk-merge.c
> +++ b/block/blk-merge.c
> @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static struct bio *blk_bio_write_same_split(struct 
> request_queue *q,
>  static inline unsigned get_max_io_size(struct request_queue *q,
>                                      struct bio *bio)
>  {
> -     unsigned sectors = blk_max_size_offset(q, bio->bi_iter.bi_sector);
> +     unsigned sectors = blk_max_size_offset(q, bio->bi_iter.bi_sector, 0);
>       unsigned max_sectors = sectors;
>       unsigned pbs = queue_physical_block_size(q) >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
>       unsigned lbs = queue_logical_block_size(q) >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> index 2073ee8d18f4..7eeb7c4169c9 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
>  #include <linux/mutex.h>
>  #include <linux/delay.h>
>  #include <linux/atomic.h>
> -#include <linux/lcm.h>
>  #include <linux/blk-mq.h>
>  #include <linux/mount.h>
>  #include <linux/dax.h>
> @@ -1449,10 +1448,6 @@ int dm_calculate_queue_limits(struct dm_table *table,
>                       zone_sectors = ti_limits.chunk_sectors;
>               }
>  
> -             /* Stack chunk_sectors if target-specific splitting is required 
> */
> -             if (ti->max_io_len)
> -                     ti_limits.chunk_sectors = lcm_not_zero(ti->max_io_len,
> -                                                            
> ti_limits.chunk_sectors);
>               /* Set I/O hints portion of queue limits */
>               if (ti->type->io_hints)
>                       ti->type->io_hints(ti, &ti_limits);
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
> index 98866e725f25..f7eb3d2964f3 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
> @@ -1039,15 +1039,18 @@ static sector_t max_io_len(struct dm_target *ti, 
> sector_t sector)
>       sector_t max_len;
>  
>       /*
> -      * Does the target need to split even further?
> -      * - q->limits.chunk_sectors reflects ti->max_io_len so
> -      *   blk_max_size_offset() provides required splitting.
> -      * - blk_max_size_offset() also respects q->limits.max_sectors
> +      * Does the target need to split IO even further?
> +      * - varied (per target) IO splitting is a tenet of DM; this
> +      *   explains why stacked chunk_sectors based splitting via
> +      *   blk_max_size_offset() isn't possible here. So pass in
> +      *   ti->max_io_len to override stacked chunk_sectors.
>        */
> -     max_len = blk_max_size_offset(ti->table->md->queue,
> -                                   target_offset);
> -     if (len > max_len)
> -             len = max_len;
> +     if (ti->max_io_len) {
> +             max_len = blk_max_size_offset(ti->table->md->queue,
> +                                           target_offset, ti->max_io_len);
> +             if (len > max_len)
> +                     len = max_len;
> +     }
>  
>       return len;
>  }
> diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> index 639cae2c158b..f56dc5497e67 100644
> --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
> +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> @@ -1073,11 +1073,12 @@ static inline unsigned int 
> blk_queue_get_max_sectors(struct request_queue *q,
>   * file system requests.
>   */
>  static inline unsigned int blk_max_size_offset(struct request_queue *q,
> -                                            sector_t offset)
> +                                            sector_t offset,
> +                                            unsigned int chunk_sectors)
>  {
> -     unsigned int chunk_sectors = q->limits.chunk_sectors;
> -
> -     if (!chunk_sectors)
> +     if (!chunk_sectors && q->limits.chunk_sectors)
> +             chunk_sectors = q->limits.chunk_sectors;
> +     else
>               return q->limits.max_sectors;
>  
>       if (likely(is_power_of_2(chunk_sectors)))

FYI, above blkdev.h diff missed this hunk:

@@ -1101,7 +1102,7 @@ static inline unsigned int blk_rq_get_max_sectors(struct 
request *rq,
            req_op(rq) == REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE)
                return blk_queue_get_max_sectors(q, req_op(rq));
 
-       return min(blk_max_size_offset(q, offset),
+       return min(blk_max_size_offset(q, offset, 0),
                        blk_queue_get_max_sectors(q, req_op(rq)));
 }
 

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