[Drbd-dev] [PATCH v3 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

[Ming Lin]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer at redhat.com> wrote:
> Ming Lin <mlin at kernel.org> writes:
>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Ming Lin <mlin at kernel.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
>>>> index fd154b9..909f317 100644
>>>> --- a/block/blk-core.c
>>>> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
>>>> @@ -617,6 +617,10 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_node(gfp_t gfp_mask, int node_id)
>>>>       if (q->id < 0)
>>>>               goto fail_q;
>>>>
>>>> +     q->bio_split = bioset_create(4, 0);
>>>> +     if (!q->bio_split)
>>>> +             goto fail_id;
>>>> +
>>>
>>> Arbitrary numbers should be documented.
>>
>> Kent,
>>
>> Is there specific reason to choose number 4?
>> If no, I may change it to BIO_POOL_SIZE which is 2.
>
> Here's what he had to say last time around:
>
>   On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:09:21PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>   > > +   q->bio_split = bioset_create(4, 0);
>   > > +   if (!q->bio_split)
>   > > +      goto fail_id;
>   >
>   > How did we arrive at a mempool size of 4 to make sure we can always make
>   > progress with arbitrarily sized bios?  Shouldn't we document the design
>   > decision somewhere?
>
>   It just has to be nonzero to guarantee forward progress - the

Then I'll update it to BIO_POOL_SIZE.

>   bio_alloc_bioset() rescuer thing I did awhile back guarantees that.
>
> link:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/26/47
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff