Re: [PATCH] block: Fix iterating over an empty bio with bio_for_each_folio_all

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 03:03:46PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:29:59 +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > If the bio contains no data, bio_first_folio() calls page_folio() on a
> > NULL pointer and oopses.  Move the test that we've reached the end of
> > the bio from bio_next_folio() to bio_first_folio().
> > 
> > 
> 
> Applied, thanks!
> 
> [1/1] block: Fix iterating over an empty bio with bio_for_each_folio_all
>       commit: 7bed6f3d08b7af27b7015da8dc3acf2b9c1f21d7

I see you added an unlikely(), and I'm not sure it's justified.
It's going to be true at the end of each iteration.  For a bio that
contains one bio_vec, it will be false once and true once.  It'd be like
writing a for loop as:

	for (i = 0; likely(i < n); i++) {
	}

which I've never seen us do.

I don't know that it's worth taking out, but I wouldn't've put it in.
I wouldn't be surprised to see benchmarks show it's a bad idea.

Could you at least _say_ when you're going to make that kind of change?
I wouldn't've noticed except that I got a merge conflict.