Re: [PATCHSET v5 0/12] Add support for async buffered reads

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Jun 01 2020 - 10:46:42 EST


On 6/1/20 8:43 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:35 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/1/20 8:14 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 6/1/20 8:13 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:04 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/1/20 7:35 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Jens,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> with Linux v5.7 final I switched to linux-block.git/for-next and reverted...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "block: read-ahead submission should imply no-wait as well"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...and see no boot-slowdowns.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you try with these patches applied instead? Or pull my async-readahead
>>>>> branch from the same location.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I can do that.
>>>> I pulled from linux-block.git#async-readahead and will report later.
>>>>
>>>> Any specific testing desired by you?
>>>
>>> Just do your boot timing test and see if it works, thanks.
>>
>> Actually, can you just re-test with the current async-buffered.6 branch?
>> I think the major surgery should wait for 5.9, we can do this a bit
>> easier without having to touch everything around us.
>>
>
> With linux-block.git#async-readahead:
>
> mycompiler -Wp,-MD,kernel/.sys.o.d -nostdinc -isystem
> /home/dileks/src/llvm-toolchain/install/lib/clang/10.0.1rc1/include
> -I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I./include
> -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi
> -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include
> ./include/linux/kconfig.h -include ./include/linux/compiler_types.h
> -D__KERNEL__ -Qunused-arguments -Wall -Wundef
> -Werror=strict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing
> -fno-common -fshort-wchar -fno-PIE
> -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int
> -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -no-integrated-as
> -Werror=unknown-warning-option -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow
> -mno-avx -m64 -mno-80387 -mstack-alignment=8 -mtune=generic
> -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -Wno-sign-compare
> -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mretpoline-external-thunk
> -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wno-address-of-packed-member -O2
> -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fstack-protector-strong
> -Wno-format-invalid-specifier -Wno-gnu -mno-global-merge
> -Wno-unused-const-variable -g -gz=zlib -pg -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wvla -Wno-pointer-sign
> -Wno-array-bounds -fno-strict-overflow -fno-merge-all-constants
> -fno-stack-check -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types
> -fmacro-prefix-map=./= -fcf-protection=none -Wno-initializer-overrides
> -Wno-format -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-format-zero-length
> -Wno-tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare
> -DKBUILD_MODFILE='"kernel/sys"' -DKBUILD_BASENAME='"sys"'
> -DKBUILD_MODNAME='"sys"' -c -o kernel/sys.o kernel/sys.c
> fs/9p/vfs_addr.c:112:4: error: use of undeclared identifier 'filp'
> filp->private_data);
> ^
> 1 error generated.
> make[5]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:267: fs/9p/vfs_addr.o] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:488: fs/9p] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:1735: fs] Error 2
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>
> I guess block.git#async-buffered.6 needs the same revert of "block:
> read-ahead submission should imply no-wait as well".

Sorry, forgot to push out the updated version. But as per previous
email, I think that major work should wait. Just try the updated
async-buffered.6 branch instead.

--
Jens Axboe