Re: [PATCH v12 0/3] bio: control bio max size

[Can Guo]

On 2021-06-04 13:03, Changheun Lee wrote:
> bio size can grow up to 4GB after muli-page bvec has been enabled.
> But sometimes large size of bio would lead to inefficient behaviors.
> Control of bio max size will be helpful to improve inefficiency.
>
> blk_queue_max_bio_bytes() is added to enable be set the max_bio_bytes 
> in
> each driver layer. And max_bio_bytes sysfs is added to show current
> max_bio_bytes for each request queue.
> bio size can be controlled via max_bio_bytes.

This is interesting, and we also noticed it right after multi-page bvec
is enabled since last year. Internally, we had a hack to disable it.
But it is good to have a tunable to control it. Thanks for the change.

Reviewed-by: Can Guo <cang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Changheun Lee (3):
>   bio: control bio max size
>   blk-sysfs: add max_bio_bytes
>   ufs: set max_bio_bytes with queue max sectors
>
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 10 ++++++++++
>  Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.rst   |  7 +++++++
>  block/bio.c                           | 17 ++++++++++++++---
>  block/blk-settings.c                  | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  block/blk-sysfs.c                     |  7 +++++++
>  drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c             |  5 +++++
>  include/linux/bio.h                   |  4 +++-
>  include/linux/blkdev.h                |  3 +++
>  8 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)