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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
Cc: "linux-cachefs@redhat.com" <linux-cachefs@redhat.com>,
	"linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"daire.byrne@gmail.com" <daire.byrne@gmail.com>,
	"anna.schumaker@netapp.com" <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>,
	"benmaynard@google.com" <benmaynard@google.com>,
	"dhowells@redhat.com" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"dwysocha@redhat.com" <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] NFS: Add support for netfs in struct nfs_inode and Kconfig
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:53:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ywe3C/EvKFYEwKPy@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4cbbdef254e9e0e6feb41455d809aaf0c5abfdb.camel@hammerspace.com>

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 03:32:25PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> I'm not talking about the transition of dirty->clean. We already deal
> with that. I'm talking about supporting large folios on read-mainly
> workloads.
> 
> NFS can happily support 1MB sized folios, or even larger than that if
> there is a compelling reason to do so.
> 
> However, having to read in the entire folio contents if the user is
> just asking for a few bytes on a database-style random read workload
> can quickly get onerous.

Ah, we don't do that.  If the user is only asking for a few bytes and
there's no indication that it's part of a streaming read, we allocate &
fill a single page, just as before.  We adapt to the user's workload
and only allocate multi-page folios when there's evidence that it'll
be useful to do so.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-25 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-24  9:34 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Convert NFS to the new netfs API Dave Wysochanski
2022-08-24  9:34 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] NFS: Rename readpage_async_filler to nfs_pageio_add_page Dave Wysochanski
2022-08-24  9:35 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] NFS: Add support for netfs in struct nfs_inode and Kconfig Dave Wysochanski
2022-08-24 12:42   ` Trond Myklebust
2022-08-24 13:00     ` David Wysochanski
2022-08-24 13:05       ` Trond Myklebust
2022-08-24 14:12         ` David Howells
2022-08-24 16:27           ` Trond Myklebust
2022-08-24 16:53             ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-08-24 17:43               ` Trond Myklebust
2022-08-25 15:01                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-08-25 15:30                   ` David Howells
2022-08-25 15:32                   ` Trond Myklebust
2022-08-25 17:53                     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2022-08-25 15:20             ` David Howells
2022-08-24  9:35 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] NFS: Convert nfs_read_folio and nfs_readahead to netfs APIs Dave Wysochanski

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