Re: [PATCH 0/3] btrfs: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jun 02 2022 - 12:47:29 EST


On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 09:22:15AM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 03:25:45PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 04:53:32PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > > This is the first series of patches aimed towards the conversion of Btrfs
> > > filesystem from the use of kmap() to kmap_local_page().
> >
> > We've already had patches converting kmaps and you're changing the last
> > ones, so this is could be the last series, with two exceptions.
> >
> > 1) You've changed lzo.c and zlib. but the same kmap/kunmap pattern is
> > used in zstd.c.
>
> I checked out zstd.c and one of the issues there is the way that the input
> workspace is mapped page by page while iterating those pages.
>
> This got me thinking about what Willy said at LSFmm concerning something like
> kmap_local_range(). Mapping more than 1 page at a time could save some
> unmap/remap of output pages required for kmap_local_page() ordering.

Umm ... Not entirely sure what I said, but it'd be really hard to kmap
multiple pages with the current PAE implementation. I've steered away
from doing that for now, and kmap_local_folio() just guarantees the
page that the offset lands in is mapped.

I don't think the right answer is having a kmap_folio() that will map
the entire folio. I'd be more tempted to add vmap_folio() for that.
My understanding is that PAE systems have more address space available
for vmap than they do for kmap.

> Unfortunately, I think the length of the input is probably to long in many
> cases. And some remapping may still be required.
>
> Cc: Willy
>
> As an aside, Willy, I'm thinking that a kmap_local_range() should return a
> folio in some way. Would you agree?

I imagine it taking a folio to describe the range that's being accessed.
But maybe it should be a phys_addr_t? I tend to prefer phys_addr_t over
pfn + offset as it's more compact on 64-bit systems and the same on
32-bit systems.