Re: [PATCH 6/7 v3] overlay: hybrid overlay filesystem prototype

[Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> 
> This overlay filesystem is a hybrid of entirely filesystem based
> (unionfs, aufs) and entierly VFS based (union mounts) solutions.

[...]

> +static int ovl_copy_up_data(struct path *old, struct path *new, loff_t len)
> +{
> +	struct file *old_file;
> +	struct file *new_file;
> +	int error = 0;
> +
> +	if (len == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	old_file = path_open(old, O_RDONLY);
> +	if (IS_ERR(old_file))
> +		return PTR_ERR(old_file);
> +
> +	new_file = path_open(new, O_WRONLY);
> +	if (IS_ERR(new_file)) {
> +		error = PTR_ERR(new_file);
> +		goto out_fput;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* FIXME: copy up sparse files efficiently */
> +	while (len) {
> +		loff_t offset = new_file->f_pos;
> +		size_t this_len = OVL_COPY_UP_CHUNK_SIZE;
> +		long bytes;
> +
> +		if (len < this_len)
> +			this_len = len;
> +
> +		if (signal_pending_state(TASK_KILLABLE, current))
> +			return -EINTR;
> +
> +		bytes = do_splice_direct(old_file, &offset, new_file, this_len,
> +				 SPLICE_F_MOVE);

Interruptible copyup is good.  But it looks like splice setup is kind
of heavyweight and we should do it as seldom as possible.

What about implementing splice flag SPLICE_F_INTERRUPTIBLE instead?

-VAL