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From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@umich.edu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-nfs <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] [RFC] 64bit copy_file_range system call
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:36:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170616173630.GE12030@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4ACE39C-B98F-4076-B9D1-9767CE76EFED@dilger.ca>

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:35:29PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 15, 2017, at 7:07 AM, Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@umich.edu> wrote:
> > Reason: it will not hurt any user but it will help for
> > server-to-server NFS copy because for each invocation of of
> > copy_file_range() it requires that the client sends COPY_NOTIFY, then
> > COPY and then a copy triggers a establishment of clientid/session
> > before the reading of the source file can happen. All that could be
> > saved by have a 64bit value.
> 
> What is the overhead of sending a couple of RPCs vs. copying 4GB of
> data on the server?

It makes a difference in the clone case, doesn't it?  (Though I'd think
best there would be a special "copy to end of file" value.)

--b.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-16 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-14 17:06 [PATCH 1/1] [RFC] 64bit copy_file_range system call Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-14 17:24 ` Anna Schumaker
2017-06-14 18:53   ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-14 19:32     ` Amir Goldstein
2017-06-14 20:08       ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-14 21:50     ` Randy Dunlap
2017-06-15 13:07       ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-15  3:59     ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-06-15 14:39       ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-15 20:53         ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-06-19 18:34           ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-19 19:39             ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-19 19:48               ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-20 12:38               ` Steve Dickson
2017-06-20 19:33               ` Chuck Lever
2017-06-20 19:37                 ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-24 11:29               ` Mkrtchyan, Tigran
2017-06-20 12:44           ` Steve Dickson
2017-06-15  8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-15 13:07   ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-15 18:35     ` Andreas Dilger
2017-06-15 19:11       ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-16 17:36       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2017-06-17 10:03         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-17 12:42           ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-17 15:09             ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-17 18:24               ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-06-24 13:23 ` Jeff Layton
2017-06-26 13:21   ` Anna Schumaker
2017-06-26 13:46     ` Jeff Layton
2017-06-26 14:46       ` Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-26 14:49         ` [PATCH 1/1] VFS permit cross device vfs_copy_file_range Olga Kornievskaia
2017-06-27 11:47           ` Jeff Layton
2017-06-27 16:12             ` Olga Kornievskaia
     [not found]       ` <5E53733A-8136-4FB5-A7E9-F4846BF98507@netapp.com>
2017-06-26 14:51         ` [PATCH 1/1] [RFC] 64bit copy_file_range system call Jeff Layton

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