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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lu Hongfei <luhongfei@vivo.com>,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] f2fs async buffered write patch
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:16:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZJmBmt3WmUpWR3+2@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <953510c3-4bcd-1426-3527-09d5cbdcf8cc@vivo.com>

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 03:31:57PM +0800, Yangtao Li wrote:
> +cc willy@infradead.org
> 
> 
> On 2023/6/20 4:43, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I came across this patch in a news posting:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs.git/commit/?h=dev&id=d618126911829523e35a61f4a5a4ad159b1b2c8d
> > 
> > which has me a bit worried. As far as I can tell, all that patch does is
> > set FMODE_BUF_WASYNC, and then just hope that the lower layers handle
> > the rest?
> > 
> > What happens if iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT is true, and now we do:
> > 
> > generic_perform_write(iocb, from)
> > 	...
> > 	->write_begin() <- does this block?
> 
> Most file systems have not been changed to the iomap method,

That's what needs to be fixed.

> and the generic_perform_write method is still used. So it seems
> 
>  reasonable to make IOCB_NOWAIT be handled correctly by the
> 
>  generic_perform_write function. This means that we need to modify

No.  Use the modern infrastructure.

>  several places mentioned by Jens in the generic_perform_write function,
> 
>  and need to pass AOP_FLAG_xxx or iocb into write_begin.

Definitely not.

> 
> I noticed that Matthew Wilcox removed the flags parameter in write_begin
> 
> in a previous commit, maybe we can add it back?

No.


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      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-26 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-19 20:43 [f2fs-dev] f2fs async buffered write patch Jens Axboe
2023-06-20  6:16 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2023-06-20 13:09   ` Jens Axboe
2023-06-26  7:31 ` Yangtao Li via Linux-f2fs-devel
2023-06-26 12:16   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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