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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/4] NFSD: issue WRITEs using O_DIRECT even if IO is misaligned
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:06:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250731230633.89983-4-snitzer@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250731230633.89983-1-snitzer@kernel.org>

If NFSD_IO_DIRECT is used, split any misaligned WRITE into a start,
middle and end as needed. The large middle extent is DIO-aligned and
the start and/or end are misaligned. Buffered IO is used for the
misaligned extents and O_DIRECT is used for the middle DIO-aligned
extent.

The nfsd_analyze_write_dio trace event shows how NFSD splits a given
misaligned WRITE into a mix of misaligned extent(s) and a DIO-aligned
extent.

This combination of trace events is useful:

  echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/nfsd/nfsd_write_opened/enable
  echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/nfsd/nfsd_analyze_write_dio/enable
  echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/nfsd/nfsd_write_io_done/enable
  echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/xfs/xfs_file_direct_write/enable

Which for this dd command:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/share1/test bs=47008 count=2 oflag=direct

Results in:

  nfsd-55714   [043] ..... 79976.260851: nfsd_write_opened: xid=0x966c5d2d fh_hash=0x4d34e6c1 offset=0 len=47008
  nfsd-55714   [043] ..... 79976.260852: nfsd_analyze_write_dio: xid=0x966c5d2d fh_hash=0x4d34e6c1 offset=0 len=47008 start=0+0 middle=0+45056 end=45056+1952
  nfsd-55714   [043] ..... 79976.260857: xfs_file_direct_write: dev 259:12 ino 0x3e00008f disize 0x0 pos 0x0 bytecount 0xb000
  nfsd-55714   [043] ..... 79976.260965: nfsd_write_io_done: xid=0x966c5d2d fh_hash=0x4d34e6c1 offset=0 len=47008

  nfsd-55714   [043] ..... 79976.307762: nfsd_write_opened: xid=0x67e5ce6f fh_hash=0x4d34e6c1 offset=47008 len=47008
  nfsd-55714   [043] ..... 79976.307762: nfsd_analyze_write_dio: xid=0x67e5ce6f fh_hash=0x4d34e6c1 offset=47008 len=47008 start=47008+2144 middle=49152+40960 end=90112+3904
  nfsd-55714   [043] ..... 79976.307797: xfs_file_direct_write: dev 259:12 ino 0x3e00008f disize 0xc000 pos 0xc000 bytecount 0xa000
  nfsd-55714   [043] ..... 79976.307866: nfsd_write_io_done: xid=0x67e5ce6f fh_hash=0x4d34e6c1 offset=47008 len=47008

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 135 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 124 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index edac73349da0f..f0cfd7b457240 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -1314,6 +1314,113 @@ static int wait_for_concurrent_writes(struct file *file)
 	return err;
 }
 
+struct nfsd_write_dio
+{
+	loff_t middle_offset;	/* Offset for start of DIO-aligned middle */
+	loff_t end_offset;	/* Offset for start of DIO-aligned end */
+	ssize_t	start_len;	/* Length for misaligned first extent */
+	ssize_t	middle_len;	/* Length for DIO-aligned middle extent */
+	ssize_t	end_len;	/* Length for misaligned last extent */
+};
+
+static void init_nfsd_write_dio(struct nfsd_write_dio *write_dio)
+{
+	memset(write_dio, 0, sizeof(*write_dio));
+}
+
+static bool nfsd_analyze_write_dio(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
+				   struct nfsd_file *nf, loff_t offset,
+				   unsigned long len, struct nfsd_write_dio *write_dio)
+{
+	const u32 dio_blocksize = nf->nf_dio_offset_align;
+	loff_t orig_end, middle_end, start_end, start_offset = offset;
+	ssize_t start_len = len;
+	bool aligned = true;
+
+	if (WARN_ONCE(!nf->nf_dio_mem_align || !dio_blocksize,
+		      "%s: underlying filesystem has not provided DIO alignment info\n",
+		      __func__))
+		return false;
+
+	if (WARN_ONCE(dio_blocksize > PAGE_SIZE,
+		      "%s: underlying storage's dio_blocksize=%u > PAGE_SIZE=%lu\n",
+		      __func__, dio_blocksize, PAGE_SIZE))
+		return false;
+
+	if (unlikely(len < dio_blocksize)) {
+		aligned = false;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	if (((offset | len) & (dio_blocksize-1)) == 0) {
+		/* already DIO-aligned, no misaligned head or tail */
+		write_dio->middle_offset = offset;
+		write_dio->middle_len = len;
+		/* clear these for the benefit of trace_nfsd_analyze_write_dio */
+		start_offset = 0;
+		start_len = 0;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	start_end = round_up(offset, dio_blocksize);
+	start_len = start_end - offset;
+	orig_end = offset + len;
+	middle_end = round_down(orig_end, dio_blocksize);
+
+	write_dio->start_len = start_len;
+	write_dio->middle_offset = start_end;
+	write_dio->middle_len = middle_end - start_end;
+	write_dio->end_offset = middle_end;
+	write_dio->end_len = orig_end - middle_end;
+out:
+	trace_nfsd_analyze_write_dio(rqstp, fhp, offset, len, start_offset, start_len,
+				     write_dio->middle_offset, write_dio->middle_len,
+				     write_dio->end_offset, write_dio->end_len);
+	return aligned;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Setup as many as 3 iov_iter based on extents possibly described by @write_dio.
+ * @iterp: pointer to pointer to onstack array of 3 iov_iter structs from caller.
+ * @rq_bvec: backing bio_vec used to setup all 3 iov_iter permutations.
+ * @nvecs: number of segments in @rq_bvec
+ * @cnt: size of the request in bytes
+ * @write_dio: nfsd_write_dio struct that describes start, middle and end extents.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of iov_iter that were setup.
+ */
+static int nfsd_setup_write_iters(struct iov_iter **iterp, struct bio_vec *rq_bvec,
+				  unsigned int nvecs, unsigned long cnt,
+				  struct nfsd_write_dio *write_dio)
+{
+	int n_iters = 0;
+	struct iov_iter *iters = *iterp;
+
+	/* Setup misaligned start? */
+	if (write_dio->start_len) {
+		iov_iter_bvec(&iters[n_iters], ITER_SOURCE, rq_bvec, nvecs, cnt);
+		iters[n_iters].count = write_dio->start_len;
+		n_iters++;
+	}
+
+	/* Setup possibly DIO-aligned middle */
+	iov_iter_bvec(&iters[n_iters], ITER_SOURCE, rq_bvec, nvecs, cnt);
+	if (write_dio->start_len)
+		iov_iter_advance(&iters[n_iters], write_dio->start_len);
+	iters[n_iters].count -= write_dio->end_len;
+	n_iters++;
+
+	/* Setup misaligned end? */
+	if (write_dio->end_len) {
+		iov_iter_bvec(&iters[n_iters], ITER_SOURCE, rq_bvec, nvecs, cnt);
+		iov_iter_advance(&iters[n_iters],
+				 write_dio->start_len + write_dio->middle_len);
+		n_iters++;
+	}
+
+	return n_iters;
+}
+
 /**
  * nfsd_vfs_write - write data to an already-open file
  * @rqstp: RPC execution context
@@ -1348,9 +1455,11 @@ nfsd_vfs_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 	unsigned int		pflags = current->flags;
 	bool			restore_flags = false;
 	unsigned int		nvecs;
-	struct iov_iter		iter_stack[1];
+	struct iov_iter		iter_stack[3];
 	struct iov_iter		*iter = iter_stack;
 	unsigned int		n_iters = 0;
+	bool                    dio_aligned = false;
+	struct nfsd_write_dio	write_dio;
 
 	trace_nfsd_write_opened(rqstp, fhp, offset, *cnt);
 
@@ -1379,18 +1488,12 @@ nfsd_vfs_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 	if (stable && !fhp->fh_use_wgather)
 		kiocb.ki_flags |= IOCB_DSYNC;
 
-	nvecs = xdr_buf_to_bvec(rqstp->rq_bvec, rqstp->rq_maxpages, payload);
-	iov_iter_bvec(&iter[0], ITER_SOURCE, rqstp->rq_bvec, nvecs, *cnt);
-	n_iters++;
-
+	init_nfsd_write_dio(&write_dio);
 	switch (nfsd_io_cache_write) {
 	case NFSD_IO_DIRECT:
-		/* direct I/O must be aligned to device logical sector size */
-		if (nf->nf_dio_mem_align && nf->nf_dio_offset_align &&
-		    (((offset | *cnt) & (nf->nf_dio_offset_align-1)) == 0) &&
-		    iov_iter_is_aligned(&iter[0], nf->nf_dio_mem_align - 1,
-					nf->nf_dio_offset_align - 1))
-			kiocb.ki_flags = IOCB_DIRECT;
+		if (nfsd_analyze_write_dio(rqstp, fhp, nf, offset,
+					   *cnt, &write_dio))
+			dio_aligned = true;
 		break;
 	case NFSD_IO_DONTCACHE:
 		kiocb.ki_flags = IOCB_DONTCACHE;
@@ -1399,11 +1502,21 @@ nfsd_vfs_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 		break;
 	}
 
+	nvecs = xdr_buf_to_bvec(rqstp->rq_bvec, rqstp->rq_maxpages, payload);
+	n_iters = nfsd_setup_write_iters(&iter, rqstp->rq_bvec, nvecs, *cnt, &write_dio);
+
 	since = READ_ONCE(file->f_wb_err);
 	if (verf)
 		nfsd_copy_write_verifier(verf, nn);
 	*cnt = 0;
 	for (int i = 0; i < n_iters; i++) {
+		if (dio_aligned) {
+			if (iov_iter_is_aligned(&iter[i], nf->nf_dio_mem_align - 1,
+						nf->nf_dio_offset_align - 1))
+				kiocb.ki_flags |= IOCB_DIRECT;
+			else
+				kiocb.ki_flags &= ~IOCB_DIRECT;
+		}
 		host_err = vfs_iocb_iter_write(file, &kiocb, &iter[i]);
 		if (host_err < 0) {
 			commit_reset_write_verifier(nn, rqstp, host_err);
-- 
2.44.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-31 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-31 23:06 [PATCH v3 0/4] NFSD DIRECT: add handling for misaligned WRITEs Mike Snitzer
2025-07-31 23:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] NFSD: refactor nfsd_read_vector_dio to EVENT_CLASS useful for READ and WRITE Mike Snitzer
2025-07-31 23:06 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] NFSD: prepare nfsd_vfs_write() to use O_DIRECT on misaligned WRITEs Mike Snitzer
2025-08-01 20:52   ` Chuck Lever
2025-08-01 22:29     ` Mike Snitzer
2025-07-31 23:06 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2025-08-05 14:55   ` [PATCH v3 3/4] NFSD: issue WRITEs using O_DIRECT even if IO is misaligned Chuck Lever
2025-08-05 19:02     ` Mike Snitzer
2025-07-31 23:06 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] NFSD: handle unaligned DIO for NFS reexport Mike Snitzer

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