From: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: About using on-stack fsdata pointer for write_begin() and write_end() callbacks
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:57:06 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <561428e6-3f71-48cb-bd73-46cc21789f6f@gmx.com> (raw)
Hi,
Recently I'm working on migrating btrfs_buffered_write() to utilize
write_begin() and write_end() callbacks.
Currently only the following filesystems really utilizing that pointer:
- bcachefs
Which is a structure of 24 bytes without any extra pointer.
- f2fs (for compression)
Which is holding a pointer to an array of pages.
- ext4
Only utilize that pointer as a flag for ext4_da_write_begin()
- ocfs2
This a large structure holding a lot of things
- (Future) btrfs
Only holds a pointer and a bool.
(Also needs a way to pass ki_flags to support IOCB_NOWAIT though)
Thus I'm wondering should we make perform_generic_write() to accept a
*fsdata pointer, other than making write_begin() to allocate one.
So that we only need to allocate the memory (or use the on-stack one)
once per write, other than once per folio.
This will cause no change to f2fs/ext4, but should benefit
ocfs2/bcachefs and of-course btrfs.
Or is there some special corner case that relies on the current behavior?
Thanks,
Qu
next reply other threads:[~2024-11-11 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-11-11 4:27 Qu Wenruo [this message]
2024-11-11 5:52 ` About using on-stack fsdata pointer for write_begin() and write_end() callbacks Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-11 7:36 ` Qu Wenruo
2024-11-12 5:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-12 5:31 ` Qu Wenruo
2024-11-12 5:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-12 6:03 ` Qu Wenruo
2024-11-12 6:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-12 6:13 ` Qu Wenruo
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