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bcachefs: allow writeback to fill bio completely

The bcachefs folio writeback code includes a bio full check as well
as a fixed size check to determine when to split off and submit
writeback I/O. The inclusive check of the latter against the limit
means that writeback can submit slightly prematurely. This is not a
functional problem, but results in unnecessarily split I/Os and
extent merging.

This can be observed with a buffered write sized exactly to the
current maximum value (1MB) and with key_merging_disabled=1. The
latter prevents the merge from the second write such that a
subsequent check of the extent list shows a 1020k extent followed by
a contiguous 4k extent.

The purpose for the fixed size check is also undocumented and
somewhat obscure. Lift this check into a new helper that wraps the
bio check, fix the comparison logic, and add a comment to document
the purpose and how we might improve on this in the future.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>

authored by

Brian Foster and committed by
Kent Overstreet
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fs/bcachefs/fs-io-buffered.c
··· 389 389 return ret; 390 390 } 391 391 392 + /* 393 + * Determine when a writepage io is full. We have to limit writepage bios to a 394 + * single page per bvec (i.e. 1MB with 4k pages) because that is the limit to 395 + * what the bounce path in bch2_write_extent() can handle. In theory we could 396 + * loosen this restriction for non-bounce I/O, but we don't have that context 397 + * here. Ideally, we can up this limit and make it configurable in the future 398 + * when the bounce path can be enhanced to accommodate larger source bios. 399 + */ 400 + static inline bool bch_io_full(struct bch_writepage_io *io, unsigned len) 401 + { 402 + struct bio *bio = &io->op.wbio.bio; 403 + return bio_full(bio, len) || 404 + (bio->bi_iter.bi_size + len > BIO_MAX_VECS * PAGE_SIZE); 405 + } 406 + 392 407 static void bch2_writepage_io_done(struct bch_write_op *op) 393 408 { 394 409 struct bch_writepage_io *io = ··· 621 606 622 607 if (w->io && 623 608 (w->io->op.res.nr_replicas != nr_replicas_this_write || 624 - bio_full(&w->io->op.wbio.bio, sectors << 9) || 625 - w->io->op.wbio.bio.bi_iter.bi_size + (sectors << 9) >= 626 - (BIO_MAX_VECS * PAGE_SIZE) || 609 + bch_io_full(w->io, sectors << 9) || 627 610 bio_end_sector(&w->io->op.wbio.bio) != sector)) 628 611 bch2_writepage_do_io(w); 629 612