Re: [PATCH] xen/blkback: Squash the discard support for 'file' and'phy' type.

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Wed Mar 14 2012 - 12:07:41 EST


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:48:21AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 13.03.12 at 23:52, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The only reason for the distinction was for the special case of
> > 'file' (which is assumed to be loopback device), was to reach inside
> > the loopback device, find the underlaying file, and call fallocate on it.
> > Fortunately "xen-blkback: convert hole punching to discard request on
> > loop devices" removes that use-case and we now based the discard
> > support based on blk_queue_discard(q) and extract all appropriate
> > parameters from the 'struct request_queue'.
> >
> > CC: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>
> (with a few minor remarks below)
>
> > --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> > @@ -419,21 +419,17 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
> > int err = 0;
> > int status = BLKIF_RSP_OKAY;
> > struct block_device *bdev = blkif->vbd.bdev;
> > -
> > + unsigned long secure = 0;
>
> Mind keeping the blank line and dropping the pointless initializer (which
> future gcc is likely going to be warning about)?

<nods>
>
> > blkif->st_ds_req++;
> >
> > xen_blkif_get(blkif);
> > - if (blkif->blk_backend_type == BLKIF_BACKEND_PHY ||
> > - blkif->blk_backend_type == BLKIF_BACKEND_FILE) {
> > - unsigned long secure = (blkif->vbd.discard_secure &&
> > - (req->u.discard.flag & BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE)) ?
> > - BLKDEV_DISCARD_SECURE : 0;
> > - err = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev,
> > - req->u.discard.sector_number,
> > - req->u.discard.nr_sectors,
> > - GFP_KERNEL, secure);
> > - } else
> > - err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > + secure = (blkif->vbd.discard_secure &&
> > + (req->u.discard.flag & BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE)) ?
> > + BLKDEV_DISCARD_SECURE : 0;
> > +
> > + err = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, req->u.discard.sector_number,
> > + req->u.discard.nr_sectors,
> > + GFP_KERNEL, secure);
> >
> > if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
> > pr_debug(DRV_PFX "discard op failed, not supported\n");
> > --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> > @@ -393,52 +393,37 @@ int xen_blkbk_discard(struct xenbus_transaction xbt,
> > struct backend_info *be)
> > char *type;
> > int err;
> > int state = 0;
> > + struct block_device *bdev = be->blkif->vbd.bdev;
> > + struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
> >
> > - type = xenbus_read(XBT_NIL, dev->nodename, "type", NULL);
> > - if (!IS_ERR(type)) {
> > - if (strncmp(type, "file", 4) == 0) {
> > - state = 1;
> > - blkif->blk_backend_type = BLKIF_BACKEND_FILE;
> > + if (blk_queue_discard(q)) {
> > + err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
> > + "discard-granularity", "%u",
> > + q->limits.discard_granularity);
> > + if (err) {
> > + xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err,
> > + "writing discard-granularity");
> > + goto kfree;
>
> Unrelated to the patch here, but failure to write any sort of extension
> data shouldn't be considered fatal - the backend can well work without
> these, and it should be left to the frontend to decide whether it wants
> to live without the unavailable extensions.

<nods>. Let me whip up another patch that removes these 'fatal' cases
and is based on this one.

>
> Jan
>
> > + }
> > + err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
> > + "discard-alignment", "%u",
> > + q->limits.discard_alignment);
> > + if (err) {
> > + xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err,
> > + "writing discard-alignment");
> > + goto kfree;
> > }
> > - if (strncmp(type, "phy", 3) == 0) {
> > - struct block_device *bdev = be->blkif->vbd.bdev;
> > - struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
> > - if (blk_queue_discard(q)) {
> > - err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
> > - "discard-granularity", "%u",
> > - q->limits.discard_granularity);
> > - if (err) {
> > - xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err,
> > - "writing discard-granularity");
> > - goto kfree;
> > - }
> > - err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
> > - "discard-alignment", "%u",
> > - q->limits.discard_alignment);
> > - if (err) {
> > - xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err,
> > - "writing discard-alignment");
> > - goto kfree;
> > - }
> > - state = 1;
> > - blkif->blk_backend_type = BLKIF_BACKEND_PHY;
> > - }
> > - /* Optional. */
> > - err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
> > - "discard-secure", "%d",
> > - blkif->vbd.discard_secure);
> > - if (err) {
> > - xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err,
> > + state = 1;
> > + /* Optional. */
> > + err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
> > + "discard-secure", "%d",
> > + blkif->vbd.discard_secure);
> > + if (err) {
> > + xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err,
> > "writting discard-secure");
> > - goto kfree;
> > - }
> > + goto kfree;
> > }
> > - } else {
> > - err = PTR_ERR(type);
> > - xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "reading type");
> > - goto out;
> > }
> > -
> > err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-discard",
> > "%d", state);
> > if (err)
>
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