Wanpeng Li <[email protected]> writes:

> To keep track of the max segment size, the sizes of the first and last 
> mergeable segments in the bio are accounted, prev->bio->bi_seg_front_size
> and next->biotail->bi_seg_back_size will be updated if 
> blk_phys_contig_segment 
> is true, however, there are still some scenarios such like nonconsistent
> blk integrity which leads to merge fail, in addtion, futher merge fail is 
> incurred due to bio->bi_seg_back_size + next->bi_seg_front_size > 
> queue_max_segment_size(q) check in function blk_phys_contig_segment(). This 
> patch fix it by updating first/last mergeable segments size iff all the 
> conditions of merging are meet.

Does it matter?  Did you see any incorrect behaviour as a result of the
current code?

Cheers,
Jeff

>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]>
> ---
>  block/blk-merge.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
> index 30a0d9f..7e7bda4 100644
> --- a/block/blk-merge.c
> +++ b/block/blk-merge.c
> @@ -367,6 +367,7 @@ static int req_gap_to_prev(struct request *req, struct 
> request *next)
>  static int ll_merge_requests_fn(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req,
>                               struct request *next)
>  {
> +     bool update_segment_size = false;
>       int total_phys_segments;
>       unsigned int seg_size =
>               req->biotail->bi_seg_back_size + next->bio->bi_seg_front_size;
> @@ -391,10 +392,7 @@ static int ll_merge_requests_fn(struct request_queue *q, 
> struct request *req,
>  
>       total_phys_segments = req->nr_phys_segments + next->nr_phys_segments;
>       if (blk_phys_contig_segment(q, req->biotail, next->bio)) {
> -             if (req->nr_phys_segments == 1)
> -                     req->bio->bi_seg_front_size = seg_size;
> -             if (next->nr_phys_segments == 1)
> -                     next->biotail->bi_seg_back_size = seg_size;
> +             update_segment_size = true;
>               total_phys_segments--;
>       }
>  
> @@ -405,6 +403,12 @@ static int ll_merge_requests_fn(struct request_queue *q, 
> struct request *req,
>               return 0;
>  
>       /* Merge is OK... */
> +     if (update_segment_size) {
> +             if (req->nr_phys_segments == 1)
> +                     req->bio->bi_seg_front_size = seg_size;
> +             if (next->nr_phys_segments == 1)
> +                     next->biotail->bi_seg_back_size = seg_size;
> +     }
>       req->nr_phys_segments = total_phys_segments;
>       return 1;
>  }
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