Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: block_dev: compute nr_vecs hint for improving writeback bvecs allocation

[Ming Lei]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 07:39:38PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> At least for iomap I think this is the wrong approach.  Between the
> iomap and writeback_control we know the maximum size of the writeback
> request and can just use that.

I think writeback_control can tell us nothing about max pages in single
bio:

- wbc->nr_to_write controls how many pages to writeback, this pages
  usually don't belong to same bio. Also this number is often much
  bigger than BIO_MAX_PAGES.

- wbc->range_start/range_end is similar too, which is often much more
  bigger than BIO_MAX_PAGES.

Also page/blocks_in_page can be mapped to different extent too, which is
only available when wpc->ops->map_blocks() is returned, which looks not
different with mpage_writepages(), in which bio is allocated with
BIO_MAX_PAGES vecs too.

Or you mean we can use iomap->length for this purpose? But iomap->length
still is still too big in case of xfs.

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Ming