Re: [PATCH 1/3] md: align superblock writes to physical blocks
From: Song Liu
Date: Fri Oct 23 2020 - 01:46:35 EST
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:31 PM Christopher Unkel <cunkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Writes of the md superblock are aligned to the logical blocks of the
> containing device, but no attempt is made to align them to physical
> block boundaries. This means that on a "512e" device (4k physical, 512
> logical) every superblock update hits the 512-byte emulation and the
> possible associated performance penalty.
>
> Respect the physical block alignment when possible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Unkel <cunkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/md/md.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
> index 98bac4f304ae..2b42850acfb3 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/md.c
> @@ -1732,6 +1732,21 @@ static int super_1_load(struct md_rdev *rdev, struct md_rdev *refdev, int minor_
> && rdev->new_data_offset < sb_start + (rdev->sb_size/512))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> + /* Respect physical block size if feasible. */
> + bmask = queue_physical_block_size(rdev->bdev->bd_disk->queue)-1;
> + if (!((rdev->sb_start * 512) & bmask) && (rdev->sb_size & bmask)) {
> + int candidate_size = (rdev->sb_size | bmask) + 1;
> +
> + if (minor_version) {
> + int sectors = candidate_size / 512;
> +
> + if (rdev->data_offset >= sb_start + sectors
> + && rdev->new_data_offset >= sb_start + sectors)
> + rdev->sb_size = candidate_size;
> + } else if (bmask <= 4095)
> + rdev->sb_size = candidate_size;
> + }
In super_1_load() and super_1_sync(), we have
bmask = queue_logical_block_size(rdev->bdev->bd_disk->queue)-1;
I think we should replace it with queue_physical_block_size() so the logic is
cleaner. Would this work?
Thanks,
Song