Re: [PATCH v2 17/21] block, blksnap: snapshot image block device

[Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>]

On 1/1/23 08:18, Hillf Danton wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: [PATCH v2 17/21] block, blksnap: snapshot image block device
> From:
> Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
> Date:
> 1/1/23, 08:18
> 
> To:
> Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>
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> On 9 Dec 2022 15:23:27 +0100 Sergei Shtepa
>  > Provides the operation of block devices of snapshot images. Read and
>  > write operations are redirected to the regions of difference blocks for
>  > block device (struct diff_area).
>  >
>  > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtepa
>  > ---
> 
> Thanks for your patchset.

Thanks for the review.

> 
>  > +static int snapimage_kthread_worker_fn(void *param)
>  > +{
>  > + struct snapimage *snapimage = param;
>  > + struct bio *bio;
>  > + int ret = 0;
>  > +
>  > + while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
>  > + bio = get_bio_from_queue(snapimage);
>  > + if (!bio) {
>  > + schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 100);
>  > + continue;
>  > + }
> 
> Given the wake_up_process() below, s$HZ / 100$HZ * 1000$ to avoid
> unnecessary wakeups [1].
> 
> And because of no signal handling added, use schedule_timeout_idle() instead.

Yes, this function will be rewritten to eliminate unnecessary wake-ups.
The code that Christoph proposed in the letter at Dec 15 should work well.

> 
> [1] 
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>  > +
>  > + snapimage_process_bio(snapimage, bio);
>  > + }
>  > +
>  > + while ((bio = get_bio_from_queue(snapimage)))
>  > + snapimage_process_bio(snapimage, bio);
>  > +
>  > + return ret;
>  > +}
>  > +
>  > +static void snapimage_submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
>  > +{
>  > + struct snapimage *snapimage = bio->bi_bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
>  > + gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOIO;
>  > +
>  > + if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT)
>  > + gfp |= GFP_NOWAIT;
>  > + if (snapimage->is_ready) {
>  > + spin_lock(&snapimage->queue_lock);
>  > + bio_list_add(&snapimage->queue, bio);
>  > + spin_unlock(&snapimage->queue_lock);
>  > +
>  > + wake_up_process(snapimage->worker);
>  > + } else
>  > + bio_io_error(bio);
>  > +}
>