On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 10:29:37PM +0800, Jianchao Wang wrote:
> There are two cases when handle DISCARD merge
>  - max_discard_segments == 1
>    bios need to be contiguous
>  - max_discard_segments > 1
>    Only nvme right now. It takes every bio as a range and different
>    range needn't to be contiguous.
> 
> But now, attempt_merge screws this up. It always consider contiguity
> for DISCARD for the case max_discard_segments > 1 and cannot merge
> contiguous DISCARD for the case max_discard_segments == 1, because
> rq_attempt_discard_merge always returns false in this case.
> This patch fixes both of the two cases above.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> V2:
>   - Add max_discard_segments > 1 checking in attempt_merge
>   - Change patch title and comment
>   - Add more comment in attempt_merge
> 
>  block/blk-merge.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
> index 42a4674..8f22374 100644
> --- a/block/blk-merge.c
> +++ b/block/blk-merge.c
> @@ -734,8 +734,15 @@ static struct request *attempt_merge(struct 
> request_queue *q,
>       /*
>        * not contiguous
>        */
> -     if (blk_rq_pos(req) + blk_rq_sectors(req) != blk_rq_pos(next))
> -             return NULL;
> +     if (blk_rq_pos(req) + blk_rq_sectors(req) != blk_rq_pos(next)) {
> +             /*
> +              * When max_discard_segments is bigger than 1 (only nvme right
> +              * now), needn't consider the contiguity.
> +              */
> +             if (!(req_op(req) == REQ_OP_DISCARD &&
> +                   queue_max_discard_segments(q) > 1))
> +                     return NULL;
> +     }
>  
>       if (rq_data_dir(req) != rq_data_dir(next)
>           || req->rq_disk != next->rq_disk
> @@ -757,10 +764,17 @@ static struct request *attempt_merge(struct 
> request_queue *q,
>        * If we are allowed to merge, then append bio list
>        * from next to rq and release next. merge_requests_fn
>        * will have updated segment counts, update sector
> -      * counts here. Handle DISCARDs separately, as they
> -      * have separate settings.
> +      * counts here.
> +      * Two cases of Handling DISCARD:
> +      *  - max_discard_segments == 1
> +      *    The bios need to be contiguous.
> +      *  - max_discard_segments > 1
> +      *    Only nvme right now. It takes every bio as a
> +      *    range and send them to controller together. The ranges
> +      *    needn't to be contiguous.
>        */
> -     if (req_op(req) == REQ_OP_DISCARD) {
> +     if (req_op(req) == REQ_OP_DISCARD &&
> +         queue_max_discard_segments(q) > 1) {
>               if (!req_attempt_discard_merge(q, req, next))
>                       return NULL;

Looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>

The above may be changed to 'if (blk_try_merge(req) == ELEVATOR_DISCARD_MERGE)'
or sort of in future, which may has document benefit at least, since
ELEVATOR_DISCARD_MERGE means multi-segment discard merge.


Thanks,
Ming

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