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authorDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>2010-01-27 22:44:36 +0300
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2010-01-28 15:08:29 +0100
commit1d6165851cd8e3f919d446cd6da35dee44e8837e (patch)
treea9d68cfc0e838490d12963aa917ef78a54ae2073 /fs/bio.c
parentc84a301d4a4b1cc382a6549b4e7881ce5b796d63 (diff)
downloadlinux-1d6165851cd8e3f919d446cd6da35dee44e8837e.tar.gz
block: fix bio_add_page for non trivial merge_bvec_fn case
We have to properly decrease bi_size in order to merge_bvec_fn return
right result.  Otherwise this result in false merge rejects for two
absolutely valid bio_vecs.  This may cause significant performance
penalty for example fs_block_size == 1k and block device is raid0 with
small chunk_size = 8k. Then it is impossible to merge 7-th fs-block in
to bio which already has 6 fs-blocks.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/bio.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/bio.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 12429c9553eb..88094afc29ea 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -542,13 +542,18 @@ static int __bio_add_page(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio, struct page
 
 		if (page == prev->bv_page &&
 		    offset == prev->bv_offset + prev->bv_len) {
+			unsigned int prev_bv_len = prev->bv_len;
 			prev->bv_len += len;
 
 			if (q->merge_bvec_fn) {
 				struct bvec_merge_data bvm = {
+					/* prev_bvec is already charged in
+					   bi_size, discharge it in order to
+					   simulate merging updated prev_bvec
+					   as new bvec. */
 					.bi_bdev = bio->bi_bdev,
 					.bi_sector = bio->bi_sector,
-					.bi_size = bio->bi_size,
+					.bi_size = bio->bi_size - prev_bv_len,
 					.bi_rw = bio->bi_rw,
 				};