rbd: simplify rbd_rq_fn()
When processing a request, rbd_rq_fn() makes clones of the bio's in
the request's bio chain and submits the results to osd's to be
satisfied. If a request bio straddles the boundary between objects
backing the rbd image, it must be represented by two cloned bio's,
one for the first part (at the end of one object) and one for the
second (at the beginning of the next object).
This has been handled by a function bio_chain_clone(), which
includes an interface only a mother could love, and which has
been found to have other problems.
This patch defines two new fairly generic bio functions (one which
replaces bio_chain_clone()) to help out the situation, and then
revises rbd_rq_fn() to make use of them.
First, bio_clone_range() clones a portion of a single bio, starting
at a given offset within the bio and including only as many bytes
as requested. As a convenience, a request to clone the entire bio
is passed directly to bio_clone().
Second, bio_chain_clone_range() performs a similar function,
producing a chain of cloned bio's covering a sub-range of the
source chain. No bio_pair structures are used, and if successful
the result will represent exactly the specified range.
Using bio_chain_clone_range() makes bio_rq_fn() a little easier
to understand, because it avoids the need to pass very much
state information between consecutive calls. By avoiding the need
to track a bio_pair structure, it also eliminates the problem
described here: http://tracker.newdream.net/issues/2933
Note that a block request (and therefore the complete length of
a bio chain processed in rbd_rq_fn()) is an unsigned int, while
the result of rbd_segment_length() is u64. This change makes
this range trunctation explicit, and trips a bug if the the
segment boundary is too far off.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@inktank.com>
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