Re: [patch] zero-bounce block highmem I/O, #13

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:41:41 +0200


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On Tue, Aug 28 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> > Hi Jens,
> >
> > I tested both #11 and #13 on my 8GB machine with sym53c8xx. The
> > initialization of a SAP DB database takes 20 minutes with 2.4.9 and
> > with 2.4.9+b13 it took nearly 2.5 hours :-(
>
> DaveM hinted that it's probably the bounce test failing, so it's
> bouncing all the time. That would explain the much worse performance.
> Could you try with this incremental patch on top of b13 for 2.4.9? I
> still want to see the boot detection info, btw.
>
> THanks!

Ok found the bug -- SCSI was accidentally using blk_seg_merge_ok when it
just wanted to test if we were crossing a 4GB physical address boundary
or not. Doh! Attached incremental patch should fix the SCSI performance
issue. I'm testing right now...

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Jens Axboe

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diff -ur --exclude-from /home/axboe/exclude /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.9/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.9/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Wed Jul 11 18:31:44 2001 +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Mon Aug 27 15:03:14 2001 @@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ static int disable_x86_serial_nr __initdata = 1; static int disable_x86_fxsr __initdata = 0; +unsigned long max_pfn; + /* * This is set up by the setup-routine at boot-time */ @@ -768,7 +770,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) { unsigned long bootmap_size, low_mem_size; - unsigned long start_pfn, max_pfn, max_low_pfn; + unsigned long start_pfn, max_low_pfn; int i; #ifdef CONFIG_VISWS diff -ur --exclude-from /home/axboe/exclude /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.9/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.9/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Tue Aug 28 12:51:56 2001 +++ linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Tue Aug 28 13:26:33 2001 @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ */ static int queue_nr_requests, batch_requests; -unsigned long blk_max_low_pfn; +unsigned long blk_max_low_pfn, blk_max_pfn; static inline int get_max_sectors(kdev_t dev) { @@ -292,8 +292,7 @@ if (!BH_CONTIG(bh, nxt)) return 0; - if ((bh_phys(bh) | 0xffffffff) == - ((bh_phys(nxt) + nxt->b_size - 1) | 0xffffffff)) + if (BH_PHYS_4G(bh, nxt)) return 1; return 0; @@ -1207,6 +1206,7 @@ printk("block: %d slots per queue, batch=%d\n", queue_nr_requests, batch_requests); blk_max_low_pfn = max_low_pfn; + blk_max_pfn = max_pfn; #ifdef CONFIG_AMIGA_Z2RAM z2_init(); @@ -1328,4 +1328,5 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_unplug_device); EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_bounce_limit); EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_max_low_pfn); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_max_pfn); EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_seg_merge_ok); diff -ur --exclude-from /home/axboe/exclude /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.9/drivers/scsi/scsi_merge.c linux/drivers/scsi/scsi_merge.c --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.9/drivers/scsi/scsi_merge.c Tue Aug 28 12:51:56 2001 +++ linux/drivers/scsi/scsi_merge.c Tue Aug 28 13:35:07 2001 @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ if ((req->nr_sectors + (bh->b_size >> 9)) > SHpnt->max_sectors) return 0; - else if (!blk_seg_merge_ok(q, req->bhtail, bh)) + else if (!BH_PHYS_4G(req->bhtail, bh)) return 0; if (use_clustering) { @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ if ((req->nr_sectors + (bh->b_size >> 9)) > SHpnt->max_sectors) return 0; - else if (!blk_seg_merge_ok(q, bh, req->bh)) + else if (!BH_PHYS_4G(bh, req->bh)) return 0; if (use_clustering) { @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ SDpnt = (Scsi_Device *) q->queuedata; SHpnt = SDpnt->host; - if (!blk_seg_merge_ok(q, req->bhtail, next->bh)) + if (!BH_PHYS_4G(req->bhtail, next->bh)) return 0; #ifdef DMA_CHUNK_SIZE diff -ur --exclude-from /home/axboe/exclude /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.9/include/linux/blkdev.h linux/include/linux/blkdev.h --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.9/include/linux/blkdev.h Tue Aug 28 12:51:56 2001 +++ linux/include/linux/blkdev.h Tue Aug 28 13:27:42 2001 @@ -126,10 +126,10 @@ wait_queue_head_t wait_for_request; }; -extern unsigned long blk_max_low_pfn; +extern unsigned long blk_max_low_pfn, blk_max_pfn; #define BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH (blk_max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE) -#define BLK_BOUNCE_ANY (~(unsigned long long) 0) +#define BLK_BOUNCE_ANY (blk_max_pfn * PAGE_SIZE) extern void blk_queue_bounce_limit(request_queue_t *, dma64_addr_t); @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ #define bh_phys(bh) (page_to_phys((bh)->b_page) + bh_offset((bh))) #define BH_CONTIG(b1, b2) (bh_phys((b1)) + (b1)->b_size == bh_phys((b2))) +#define BH_PHYS_4G(b1, b2) ((bh_phys((b1)) | 0xffffffff) == ((bh_phys((b2)) + (b2)->b_size - 1) | 0xffffffff)) struct blk_dev_struct { /* diff -ur --exclude-from /home/axboe/exclude /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.9/include/linux/bootmem.h linux/include/linux/bootmem.h --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.9/include/linux/bootmem.h Wed Aug 15 23:22:13 2001 +++ linux/include/linux/bootmem.h Mon Aug 27 14:53:47 2001 @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ extern unsigned long min_low_pfn; /* + * highest page + */ +extern unsigned long max_pfn; + +/* * node_bootmem_map is a map pointer - the bits represent all physical * memory pages (including holes) on the node. */

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