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[68.160.166.30]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m24-20020ae9e718000000b007578622c861sm1250201qka.108.2023.06.09.13.31.42 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:31:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 16:31:41 -0400 From: Mike Snitzer To: Sarthak Kukreti Cc: Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , Joe Thornber , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , "Darrick J. Wong" , Jason Wang , Bart Van Assche , Dave Chinner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joe Thornber , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, Andreas Dilger , Stefan Hajnoczi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Brian Foster , Alasdair Kergon Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Introduce provisioning primitives Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 07 2023 at 7:27P -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05 2023 at 5:14P -0400, > Sarthak Kukreti wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 8:57 AM Mike Snitzer wrote: > > > > > > We all just need to focus on your proposal and Joe's dm-thin > > > reservation design... > > > > > > [Sarthak: FYI, this implies that it doesn't really make sense to add > > > dm-thinp support before Joe's design is implemented. Otherwise we'll > > > have 2 different responses to REQ_OP_PROVISION. The one that is > > > captured in your patchset isn't adequate to properly handle ensuring > > > upper layer (like XFS) can depend on the space being available across > > > snapshot boundaries.] > > > > > Ack. Would it be premature for the rest of the series to go through > > (REQ_OP_PROVISION + support for loop and non-dm-thinp device-mapper > > targets)? I'd like to start using this as a reference to suggest > > additions to the virtio-spec for virtio-blk support and start looking > > at what an ext4 implementation would look like. > > Please drop the dm-thin.c and dm-snap.c changes. dm-snap.c would need > more work to provide the type of guarantee XFS requires across > snapshot boundaries. I'm inclined to _not_ add dm-snap.c support > because it is best to just use dm-thin. > > And FYI even your dm-thin patch will be the starting point for the > dm-thin support (we'll keep attribution to you for all the code in a > separate patch). > > > Fair points, I certainly don't want to derail this conversation; I'd > > be happy to see this work merged sooner rather than later. > > Once those dm target changes are dropped I think the rest of the > series is fine to go upstream now. Feel free to post a v8. FYI, I've made my latest code available in this 'dm-6.5-provision-support' branch (based on 'dm-6.5'): https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/log/?h=dm-6.5-provision-support It's what v8 should be plus the 2 dm-thin patches (that I don't think should go upstream yet, but are theoretically useful for Dave and Joe). The "dm thin: complete interface for REQ_OP_PROVISION support" commit establishes all the dm-thin interface I think is needed. The FIXME in process_provision_bio() (and the patch header) cautions against upper layers like XFS using this dm-thinp support quite yet. Otherwise we'll have the issue where dm-thinp's REQ_OP_PROVISION support initially doesn't provide the guarantee that XFS needs across snapshots (which is: snapshots inherit all previous REQ_OP_PROVISION). Mike