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From: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
To: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/9] xprtrdma: Introduce ro_unmap_sync method
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:43:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5654697E.1030809@talpey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565442F5.7080400@dev.mellanox.co.il>

On 11/24/2015 5:59 AM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> As I see it, if we don't wait for local-invalidate to complete before
> unmap and IO completion (and no one does)

For the record, that is false. Windows quite strictly performs these
steps, and deliver millions of real 4K IOPS over SMB Direct.

> Waiting for local invalidate to complete would be a really big
> sacrifice for our storage ULPs.

Not waiting would also be a sacrifice, by compromising data integrity.
It's a tough tradeoff, but if you choose to go that way it will be
critical to be honest about the consequences to the data.

Tom.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-24 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-23 22:13 [PATCH v1 0/9] NFS/RDMA client patches for 4.5 Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:13 ` [PATCH v1 1/9] xprtrdma: Add a safety margin for receive buffers Chuck Lever
2015-11-24  0:55   ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24  1:16     ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-24  1:22       ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24  1:44         ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14 ` [PATCH v1 2/9] xprtrdma: Move struct ib_send_wr off the stack Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14 ` [PATCH v1 3/9] xprtrdma: Introduce ro_unmap_sync method Chuck Lever
2015-11-24  6:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-24  7:28     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-11-24 10:59     ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-11-24 13:43       ` Tom Talpey [this message]
2015-11-24 14:40         ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-11-24 14:39       ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-24 14:44         ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-11-24 15:20           ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-24 18:57         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-11-23 22:14 ` [PATCH v1 4/9] xprtrdma: Add ro_unmap_sync method for FRWR Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14 ` [PATCH v1 5/9] xprtrdma: Add ro_unmap_sync method for FMR Chuck Lever
2015-11-24  0:57   ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24  6:52     ` Future of FMR support, was: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-24  7:12       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-12-01 15:33         ` Chuck Lever
2015-12-02 12:27           ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-24 12:36       ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24 21:54       ` santosh shilimkar
2015-11-25  9:00         ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-25 17:09           ` santosh shilimkar
2015-11-25 18:22             ` Or Gerlitz
2015-11-25 19:17               ` santosh shilimkar
2015-11-25 19:28             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-11-26 10:01               ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-11-23 22:14 ` [PATCH v1 6/9] xprtrdma: Add ro_unmap_sync method for all-physical registration Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14 ` [PATCH v1 7/9] SUNRPC: Introduct xprt_commit_rqst() Chuck Lever
2015-11-24 19:54   ` Anna Schumaker
2015-11-24 19:56     ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14 ` [PATCH v1 8/9] xprtrdma: Invalidate in the RPC reply handler Chuck Lever
2015-11-24  1:01   ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-23 22:15 ` [PATCH v1 9/9] xprtrdma: Revert commit e7104a2a9606 ('xprtrdma: Cap req_cqinit') Chuck Lever

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