From: Milan Broz If there is enough memory, code can directly submit bio instead queing this operation in separate thread. Try to alloc bio clone with GFP_NOWAIT and only if it fails use separate queue (map function cannot block here). Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.37/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.37.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c +++ linux-2.6.37/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c @@ -787,26 +787,30 @@ static void clone_init(struct dm_crypt_i clone->bi_destructor = dm_crypt_bio_destructor; } -static void kcryptd_io_read(struct dm_crypt_io *io) +static void kcryptd_unplug(struct crypt_config *cc) +{ + blk_unplug(bdev_get_queue(cc->dev->bdev)); +} + +static int kcryptd_io_read(struct dm_crypt_io *io, gfp_t gfp) { struct crypt_config *cc = io->target->private; struct bio *base_bio = io->base_bio; struct bio *clone; - crypt_inc_pending(io); - /* * The block layer might modify the bvec array, so always * copy the required bvecs because we need the original * one in order to decrypt the whole bio data *afterwards*. */ - clone = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, bio_segments(base_bio), cc->bs); - if (unlikely(!clone)) { - io->error = -ENOMEM; - crypt_dec_pending(io); - return; + clone = bio_alloc_bioset(gfp, bio_segments(base_bio), cc->bs); + if (!clone) { + kcryptd_unplug(cc); + return 1; } + crypt_inc_pending(io); + clone_init(io, clone); clone->bi_idx = 0; clone->bi_vcnt = bio_segments(base_bio); @@ -816,6 +820,7 @@ static void kcryptd_io_read(struct dm_cr sizeof(struct bio_vec) * clone->bi_vcnt); generic_make_request(clone); + return 0; } static void kcryptd_io_write(struct dm_crypt_io *io) @@ -828,9 +833,12 @@ static void kcryptd_io(struct work_struc { struct dm_crypt_io *io = container_of(work, struct dm_crypt_io, work); - if (bio_data_dir(io->base_bio) == READ) - kcryptd_io_read(io); - else + if (bio_data_dir(io->base_bio) == READ) { + crypt_inc_pending(io); + if (kcryptd_io_read(io, GFP_NOIO)) + io->error = -ENOMEM; + crypt_dec_pending(io); + } else kcryptd_io_write(io); } @@ -1424,9 +1432,10 @@ static int crypt_map(struct dm_target *t io = crypt_io_alloc(ti, bio, dm_target_offset(ti, bio->bi_sector)); - if (bio_data_dir(io->base_bio) == READ) - kcryptd_queue_io(io); - else + if (bio_data_dir(io->base_bio) == READ) { + if (kcryptd_io_read(io, GFP_NOWAIT)) + kcryptd_queue_io(io); + } else kcryptd_queue_crypt(io); return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;