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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Bernd Schubert <bschubert@ddn.com>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, io-uring@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, dsingh@ddn.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: add FMODE_DIO_PARALLEL_WRITE flag
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:11:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZDjggMCGautPUDpW@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegt_ZCVodOhQCzF9OqKnCr65mKax0Gu4OTN8M51zP+8TcA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 09:40:29AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> fuse_direct_write_iter():
> 
> bool exclusive_lock =
>     !(ff->open_flags & FOPEN_PARALLEL_DIRECT_WRITES) ||
>     iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_APPEND ||
>     fuse_direct_write_extending_i_size(iocb, from);
> 
> If the write is size extending, then it will take the lock exclusive.
> OTOH, I guess that it would be unusual for lots of  size extending
> writes to be done in parallel.
> 
> What would be the effect of giving the  FMODE_DIO_PARALLEL_WRITE hint
> and then still serializing the writes?

I have no idea how this flags work, but XFS also takes i_rwsem
exclusively for appends, when the positions and size aren't aligned to
the block size, and a few other cases.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-14  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-07 17:20 [PATCHSET for-next 0/2] Flag file systems as supporting parallel dio writes Jens Axboe
2023-03-07 17:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs: add FMODE_DIO_PARALLEL_WRITE flag Jens Axboe
2023-04-12 13:40   ` Bernd Schubert
2023-04-12 13:43     ` Bernd Schubert
2023-04-13  7:40     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-04-13  9:25       ` Bernd Schubert
2023-04-14  5:11       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-04-14 15:36         ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-04-15 13:15           ` Jens Axboe
2023-04-18 12:42             ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-04-18 12:55               ` Bernd Schubert
2023-04-18 22:13                 ` Dave Chinner
2023-04-19  1:28                   ` Jens Axboe
2023-04-16  5:54           ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-04-19  1:29             ` Jens Axboe
2023-03-07 17:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] io_uring: avoid hashing O_DIRECT writes if the filesystem doesn't need it Jens Axboe
2023-03-15 17:40 ` [PATCHSET for-next 0/2] Flag file systems as supporting parallel dio writes Jens Axboe
2023-03-16  4:29   ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-03-17  2:53     ` Jens Axboe
2023-04-03 12:24 ` Christian Brauner

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