Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] fs: use on-stack-bio if backing device has BDI_CAP_SYNC capability

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 11:41:50AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 07:31:22PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 10:51:13AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 06:29:04AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 05:49:59AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > > +	struct bio sbio;
> > > > > +	struct bio_vec sbvec;
> > > > 
> > > > ... this needs to be sbvec[nr_pages], of course.
> > > > 
> > > > > -		bio = mpage_alloc(bdev, blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9),
> > > > > +		if (bdi_cap_synchronous_io(inode_to_bdi(inode))) {
> > > > > +			bio = &sbio;
> > > > > +			bio_init(bio, &sbvec, nr_pages);
> > > > 
> > > > ... and this needs to be 'sbvec', not '&sbvec'.
> > > 
> > > I don't get it why we need sbvec[nr_pages].
> > > On-stack-bio works with per-page.
> > > May I miss something?
> > 
> > The way I redid it, it will work with an arbitrary number of pages.
> 
> IIUC, it would be good things with dynamic bio alloction with passing
> allocated bio back and forth but on-stack bio cannot work like that.
> It should be done in per-page so it is worth?

I'm not passing the bio back and forth between do_mpage_readpage() and
its callers.  The version I sent allows for multiple pages in a single
on-stack bio (when called from mpage_readpages()).