Skip to content
Permalink
Browse files
bio: limit bio max size
bio size can grow up to 4GB when muli-page bvec is enabled.
but sometimes it would lead to inefficient behaviors.
in case of large chunk direct I/O, - 32MB chunk read in user space -
all pages for 32MB would be merged to a bio structure if the pages
physical addresses are contiguous. it makes some delay to submit
until merge complete. bio max size should be limited to a proper size.

When 32MB chunk read with direct I/O option is coming from userspace,
kernel behavior is below now in do_direct_IO() loop. it's timeline.

 | bio merge for 32MB. total 8,192 pages are merged.
 | total elapsed time is over 2ms.
 |------------------ ... ----------------------->|
                                                 | 8,192 pages merged a bio.
                                                 | at this time, first bio submit is done.
                                                 | 1 bio is split to 32 read request and issue.
                                                 |--------------->
                                                  |--------------->
                                                   |--------------->
                                                              ......
                                                                   |--------------->
                                                                    |--------------->|
                          total 19ms elapsed to complete 32MB read done from device. |

If bio max size is limited with 1MB, behavior is changed below.

 | bio merge for 1MB. 256 pages are merged for each bio.
 | total 32 bio will be made.
 | total elapsed time is over 2ms. it's same.
 | but, first bio submit timing is fast. about 100us.
 |--->|--->|--->|---> ... -->|--->|--->|--->|--->|
      | 256 pages merged a bio.
      | at this time, first bio submit is done.
      | and 1 read request is issued for 1 bio.
      |--------------->
           |--------------->
                |--------------->
                                      ......
                                                 |--------------->
                                                  |--------------->|
        total 17ms elapsed to complete 32MB read done from device. |

As a result, read request issue timing is faster if bio max size is limited.
Current kernel behavior with multipage bvec, super large bio can be created.
And it lead to delay first I/O request issue.

Signed-off-by: Changheun Lee <nanich.lee@samsung.com>
  • Loading branch information
Changheun authored and intel-lab-lkp committed Apr 12, 2021
1 parent 857a80b commit 5d00aa42f58575968c4a7a4b374addaf4f9a5624
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Showing 4 changed files with 34 additions and 2 deletions.
@@ -255,6 +255,17 @@ void bio_init(struct bio *bio, struct bio_vec *table,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_init);

unsigned int bio_max_size(struct bio *bio)
{
struct request_queue *q = bio->bi_disk->queue;

if (blk_queue_limit_bio_size(q))
return blk_queue_get_max_sectors(q, bio_op(bio))
<< SECTOR_SHIFT;

return UINT_MAX;
}

/**
* bio_reset - reinitialize a bio
* @bio: bio to reset
@@ -866,7 +877,7 @@ bool __bio_try_merge_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
struct bio_vec *bv = &bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_vcnt - 1];

if (page_is_mergeable(bv, page, len, off, same_page)) {
if (bio->bi_iter.bi_size > UINT_MAX - len) {
if (bio->bi_iter.bi_size > bio_max_size(bio) - len) {
*same_page = false;
return false;
}
@@ -928,6 +928,23 @@ void blk_queue_set_zoned(struct gendisk *disk, enum blk_zoned_model model)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_queue_set_zoned);

/**
* blk_queue_set_limit_bio_size - set limit bio size flag
* @q: the request queue for the device
* @limit: limit bio size on(true), or off
*
* bio max size will be limited to queue max sectors size,
* if limit is true.
*/
void blk_queue_set_limit_bio_size(struct request_queue *q, bool limit)
{
if (limit)
blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_LIMIT_BIO_SIZE, q);
else
blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_LIMIT_BIO_SIZE, q);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_queue_set_limit_bio_size);

static int __init blk_settings_init(void)
{
blk_max_low_pfn = max_low_pfn - 1;
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static inline bool bio_full(struct bio *bio, unsigned len)
if (bio->bi_vcnt >= bio->bi_max_vecs)
return true;

if (bio->bi_iter.bi_size > UINT_MAX - len)
if (bio->bi_iter.bi_size > bio_max_size(bio) - len)
return true;

return false;
@@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ struct request_queue {
#define QUEUE_FLAG_RQ_ALLOC_TIME 27 /* record rq->alloc_time_ns */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_HCTX_ACTIVE 28 /* at least one blk-mq hctx is active */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT 29 /* device supports NOWAIT */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_LIMIT_BIO_SIZE 30 /* limit bio size */

#define QUEUE_FLAG_MQ_DEFAULT ((1 << QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT) | \
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP) | \
@@ -667,6 +668,8 @@ bool blk_queue_flag_test_and_set(unsigned int flag, struct request_queue *q);
#define blk_queue_fua(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_FUA, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_registered(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_nowait(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_limit_bio_size(q) \
test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_LIMIT_BIO_SIZE, &(q)->queue_flags)

extern void blk_set_pm_only(struct request_queue *q);
extern void blk_clear_pm_only(struct request_queue *q);
@@ -1187,6 +1190,7 @@ extern void blk_queue_required_elevator_features(struct request_queue *q,
unsigned int features);
extern bool blk_queue_can_use_dma_map_merging(struct request_queue *q,
struct device *dev);
extern void blk_queue_set_limit_bio_size(struct request_queue *q, bool limit);

/*
* Number of physical segments as sent to the device.

0 comments on commit 5d00aa4

Please sign in to comment.