From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] dax: fix dma vs truncate and remove 'page-less' support
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:31:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171020093148.GA20304@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171020074750.GA13568@lst.de>
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 09:47:50AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I'd like to brainstorm how we can do something better.
>
> How about:
>
> If we hit a page with an elevated refcount in truncate / hole puch
> etc for a DAX file system we do not free the blocks in the file system,
> but add it to the extent busy list. We mark the page as delayed
> free (e.g. page flag?) so that when it finally hits refcount zero we
> call back into the file system to remove it from the busy list.
Brainstorming some more:
Given that on a DAX file there shouldn't be any long-term page
references after we unmap it from the page table and don't allow
get_user_pages calls why not wait for the references for all
DAX pages to go away first? E.g. if we find a DAX page in
truncate_inode_pages_range that has an elevated refcount we set
a new flag to prevent new references from showing up, and then
simply wait for it to go away. Instead of a busy way we can
do this through a few hashed waitqueued in dev_pagemap. And in
fact put_zone_device_page already gets called when putting the
last page so we can handle the wakeup from there.
In fact if we can't find a page flag for the stop new callers
things we could probably come up with a way to do that through
dev_pagemap somehow, but I'm not sure how efficient that would
be.
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-20 2:38 [PATCH v3 00/13] dax: fix dma vs truncate and remove 'page-less' support Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported() Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] dax: require 'struct page' for filesystem dax Dan Williams
2017-10-20 7:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-20 15:23 ` Dan Williams
2017-10-20 16:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-20 22:29 ` Dan Williams
2017-10-21 3:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-10-21 4:16 ` Dan Williams
2017-10-21 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-23 5:18 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2017-10-23 8:55 ` Dan Williams
2017-10-23 10:44 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2017-10-23 11:20 ` Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] dax: stop using VM_MIXEDMAP for dax Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] dax: stop using VM_HUGEPAGE " Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush() Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] dax: store pfns in the radix Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] dax: warn if dma collides with truncate Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] tools/testing/nvdimm: add 'bio_delay' mechanism Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] IB/core: disable memory registration of fileystem-dax vmas Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] mm: disable get_user_pages_fast() for dax Dan Williams
2017-10-20 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] fs: use smp_load_acquire in break_{layout,lease} Dan Williams
2017-10-20 12:39 ` Jeffrey Layton
2017-10-20 2:40 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] dax: handle truncate of dma-busy pages Dan Williams
2017-10-20 13:05 ` Jeff Layton
2017-10-20 15:42 ` Dan Williams
2017-10-20 16:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-20 17:27 ` Dan Williams
2017-10-20 20:36 ` Brian Foster
2017-10-21 8:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-20 2:40 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] xfs: wire up FL_ALLOCATED support Dan Williams
2017-10-20 7:47 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] dax: fix dma vs truncate and remove 'page-less' support Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-20 9:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-10-26 10:58 ` Jan Kara
2017-10-26 23:51 ` Williams, Dan J
2017-10-27 6:48 ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-27 11:42 ` Dan Williams
2017-10-29 21:52 ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-27 6:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-29 23:46 ` Dan Williams
2017-10-30 2:00 ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-30 8:38 ` Jan Kara
2017-10-30 11:20 ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-30 17:51 ` Dan Williams
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