on 12/02/2008 15:11 Bruce Evans said the following: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andriy Gapon writes: >> >>> 2.3. this code passes to bread blkno that is calculated as 4*sector, >>> where sector is a number of a physical 2048-byte sector. [**] >>> [**] - I think that this is a requirement of buffcache system, because >>> internally it performs many calculations that seem to assume that block >>> size is always 512. >> Yes, the buf-cache works in 512 bytes units throughout. > > I missed the dbtob() conversions in vfs_bio.c when I replied previously > So blkno cannot be a cookie; it must be for a 512-block. So how did > the cases where bsize != DEV_BSIZE in getblk() ever work?
It seems that this is because specific VOP_STRATEGY and/or BO_STRATEGY kicked in and did the right thing, see below. >>> 3.1. for a fresh buf getlbk would assign the following: >>> bsize = bo->bo_bsize; >>> offset = blkno * bsize; >> That's clearly wrong. > > If units were always 512-blocks, then anything except bsize = DEV_BSIZE > would be clearly wrong. Things aren't that simple (but probably should > be). Even RELENG_3 has bsize = f_iosize (possibly != 512) for non-disks. O, I missed this obvious thing! Bruce, thank you for putting me back on the ground :-) Even in UDF case, when we bread() via a file or directory vnode we pass a logical 2048-byte block number (within the file) to bread(). In this case the code in getblk() does the right thing when it calculates offset as blkno * 2048. Calculating it assuming 512-byte units would be a disaster. And the actual reading works correctly because udf_strategy is called for such vnodes and it translates block numbers from physical to logical and also correctly re-calculates b_iooffset for actual reading. So b_iooffset value set in breadn() (using bdtob) is completely ignored. I remember that this is why g_vfs_* was my primary target. It seems that I revert my opinion back: either g_vfs_open should be smart about setting bo_bsize, or g_vfs_strategy should be smart about calculating bio_offset, or individual filesystems should not depend on g_vfs_* always doing the best thing for them. In any case, it seems that it is the g_vfs_* that is currently inconsistent: it sets bo_bsize to a somewhat arbitrary value, but expects that it would always be provided with correct b_iooffset (the latter being rigidly calculated via bdtob() in buffcache code). So this leaves filesystems dead in the water while reading via device vnode: provide blkno in 512-byte units - screw up VM cache, provide blkno in bo_bsize units - screw up reading from disk. Not sure if the FS-s should have wits to set bo_bsize properly and/or provide proper bo_ops - we are talking about a device vnode here. Should filesystems be involved in the business of setting its properties? Not sure. But it seems that there are many possibilities for "fixups" and various filesystems [have to] do stuff in their unique ways (*_STRATEGY, etc). -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
