Re: [PATCH 2/5] block: add request->io_data_len

[Ming Lei]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 10:11:19PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 09:44:06AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > Almost all __blk_mq_end_request() follow blk_update_request(), so the
> > completed bytes can be passed to __blk_mq_end_request(), then we can
> > avoid to introduce this field.
> 
> But on some drivers blk_update_request() may be called multiple times before
> __blk_mq_end_request() is called and what's needed here is the total number of
> bytes in the whole request, not just in the final completion.

OK.

Another choice might be to record request bytes in rq's payload
when calling .queue_rq() only for these drivers.

> 
> > Also there is just 20 callers of __blk_mq_end_request(), looks this kind
> > of change shouldn't be too big.
> 
> This would work iff we get rid of partial completions and if we get rid of
> partial completions, we might as well stop exposing blk_update_request() and
> __blk_mq_end_request().

Indeed, we can store the completed bytes in request payload, so looks killing
partial completion shouldn't be too hard.

Thanks,
Ming