From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] nfs: page cache invalidation for dio
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:24:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122082414.GA12530@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140121142159.210ca0b8@tlielax.poochiereds.net>
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 02:21:59PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> In any case, this helps but it's a little odd. With this patch, you add
> an invalidate_inode_pages2 call prior to doing the DIO. But, you've
> also left in the call to nfs_zap_mapping in the completion codepath.
>
> So now, we shoot down the mapping prior to doing a DIO write, and then
> mark the mapping for invalidation again when the write completes. Was
> that intentional?
>
> It seems a little excessive and might hurt performance in some cases.
> OTOH, if you mix buffered and DIO you're asking for trouble anyway and
> this approach seems to give better cache coherency.
Thile follows the model implemented and documented in
generic_file_direct_write().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-14 16:50 [PATCH 0/7] direct I/O fixes Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-14 16:50 ` [PATCH 1/7] nfs: fix size updates for aio writes Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-14 16:50 ` [PATCH 2/7] nfs: defer inode_dio_done call until size update is done Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-14 16:50 ` [PATCH 3/7] nfs: increment i_dio_count for reads, too Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-14 16:50 ` [PATCH 4/7] nfs: merge nfs_direct_read into nfs_file_direct_read Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-14 16:50 ` [PATCH 5/7] nfs: merge nfs_direct_write into nfs_file_direct_write Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-14 16:50 ` [PATCH 6/7] nfs: take i_mutex during direct I/O reads Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-14 17:00 ` Chuck Lever
2013-11-15 14:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-14 20:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2013-11-15 14:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-15 15:23 ` Trond Myklebust
2013-11-15 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-15 15:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2013-11-15 15:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-15 16:00 ` Trond Myklebust
2013-11-14 16:50 ` [PATCH 7/7] nfs: page cache invalidation for dio Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-14 18:35 ` Jeff Layton
2013-11-15 14:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-15 14:52 ` Jeff Layton
2013-11-15 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-15 15:33 ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-21 19:21 ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-22 8:24 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-01-22 12:04 ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-24 15:50 ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-24 15:52 ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-24 17:11 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-01-24 17:29 ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-24 17:40 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-01-24 18:00 ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-24 18:46 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-01-24 21:21 ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-25 0:39 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-01-25 0:54 ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-25 1:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-01-25 1:11 ` Trond Myklebust
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