From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Eddie Pettis <pettis.eddie@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to locate struct file * from a bio?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:51:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070131145154.GA19815@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070131144423.GB10050@ftp.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:44:23PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:34:54AM -0500, Eddie Pettis wrote:
> > Short question: Is it possible to locate the struct file * associated
> > with a bio? If so, how?
>
> Obviously impossible. For one thing, there might very well be no inode,
> let alone struct file, associated with bio in question (e.g. for any
> filesystem metadata). Moreover, the same on-disk object may get IO
> without any stuct file at all (e.g. a directory) or with many struct
> file (e.g. any file independently opened by several processes; no matter
> how many of them do reads, we'll get stuff pulled into page cache the
> same way (and once, not once per struct file).
BTW, here's a good testcase for you: /etc/ld.so.cache; it's accessed at
practically any execve(), so it should be very close to top of the
popularity list (right there with /lib/libc.so.6)...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-31 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-31 14:34 How to locate struct file * from a bio? Eddie Pettis
2007-01-31 14:44 ` Al Viro
2007-01-31 14:51 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-01-31 15:18 ` Helge Hafting
2007-01-31 18:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 18:55 ` Eddie Pettis
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