On Wed,  6 May 2015 23:34:17 -0700 Ming Lin <m...@kernel.org> wrote:

> If a read request fits entirely in a chunk, it will be passed directly to the
> underlying device (providing it hasn't failed of course).  If it doesn't fit,
> the slightly less efficient path that uses the stripe_cache is used.
> Requests that get to the stripe cache are always completely split up as
> necessary.
> 
> So with RAID5, ripping out the merge_bvec_fn doesn't cause it to stop work,
> but could cause it to take the less efficient path more often.
> 
> All that is needed to manage this is for 'chunk_aligned_read' do some bio
> splitting, much like the RAID0 code does.
> 
> Cc: Neil Brown <ne...@suse.de>
> Cc: linux-r...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <m...@kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/md/raid5.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> index 7f4a717..b18f548 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> @@ -4738,7 +4738,7 @@ static void raid5_align_endio(struct bio *bi, int error)
>       add_bio_to_retry(raid_bi, conf);
>  }
>  
> -static int chunk_aligned_read(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio * raid_bio)
> +static int raid5_read_one_chunk(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *raid_bio)
>  {
>       struct r5conf *conf = mddev->private;
>       int dd_idx;
> @@ -4747,7 +4747,7 @@ static int chunk_aligned_read(struct mddev *mddev, 
> struct bio * raid_bio)
>       sector_t end_sector;
>  
>       if (!in_chunk_boundary(mddev, raid_bio)) {
> -             pr_debug("chunk_aligned_read : non aligned\n");
> +             pr_debug("%s: non aligned\n", __func__);
>               return 0;
>       }
>       /*
> @@ -4822,6 +4822,36 @@ static int chunk_aligned_read(struct mddev *mddev, 
> struct bio * raid_bio)
>       }
>  }
>  
> +static struct bio *chunk_aligned_read(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio 
> *raid_bio)
> +{
> +     struct bio *split;
> +
> +     do {
> +             sector_t sector = raid_bio->bi_iter.bi_sector;
> +             unsigned chunk_sects = mddev->chunk_sectors;
> +             unsigned sectors;
> +
> +             if (likely(is_power_of_2(chunk_sects)))
> +                     sectors = chunk_sects - (sector & (chunk_sects-1));
> +             else
> +                     sectors = chunk_sects - sector_div(sector, chunk_sects);

RAID5 doesn't currently allow non-power-of-2 chunks.  So this test is
pointless, but not really harmful.  Maybe someday we will.

I'm equally happy for it to stay or go.

Acked-by: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>

Thanks,
NeilBrown


> +
> +             if (sectors < bio_sectors(raid_bio)) {
> +                     split = bio_split(raid_bio, sectors, GFP_NOIO, 
> fs_bio_set);
> +                     bio_chain(split, raid_bio);
> +             } else
> +                     split = raid_bio;
> +
> +             if (!raid5_read_one_chunk(mddev, split)) {
> +                     if (split != raid_bio)
> +                             generic_make_request(raid_bio);
> +                     return split;
> +             }
> +     } while (split != raid_bio);
> +
> +     return NULL;
> +}
> +
>  /* __get_priority_stripe - get the next stripe to process
>   *
>   * Full stripe writes are allowed to pass preread active stripes up until
> @@ -5099,9 +5129,11 @@ static void make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct 
> bio * bi)
>        * data on failed drives.
>        */
>       if (rw == READ && mddev->degraded == 0 &&
> -          mddev->reshape_position == MaxSector &&
> -          chunk_aligned_read(mddev,bi))
> -             return;
> +         mddev->reshape_position == MaxSector) {
> +             bi = chunk_aligned_read(mddev, bi);
> +             if (!bi)
> +                     return;
> +     }
>  
>       if (unlikely(bi->bi_rw & REQ_DISCARD)) {
>               make_discard_request(mddev, bi);

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