From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A08EC4345F for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:50:27 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:List-Subscribe:List-Help :List-Post:List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=Fsqo+TcihzvYrlHKzsufMdVp0+RBP5LCcQAVZASLf7k=; b=XuxFLmbFp6bLSozO80KM2bOuGn KUKxVPJg/LctXFvUDbM/pE1xMU375EjguVTDY78Dnx/DuIKJBz+4ug6X5UbFu38mGXjVIPY82ZrEL vbzrHctidxH9NVaDK37N8+VdPZ8RheU7Spt91BtVbNofSnQHWhH7KL/gJyn2gZk+G1MBBRgCBS/Z/ ZBIgEoL55nyMo/Un6OF4xlJoy1r1rmKGEDeWNyfwu2n6zfYSM5cKkxZ38ZDtr41ryq0jE/mHOTUxJ KTxQCNBp4MOTeFySER7U/4qGam+85gWP7GMyMIqyr0HsJThjD9QALbLHMUwqdwmKLBKRyy//G/r6q FI2h+HTQ==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1rw6nv-00000006NVE-0XV4; Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:50:23 +0000 Received: from mcgrof by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1rw6no-00000006NUn-3vr6; Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:50:17 +0000 Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 13:50:16 -0700 From: Luis Chamberlain To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: John Garry , Pankaj Raghav , Daniel Gomez , Javier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gonz=E1lez?= , axboe@kernel.dk, kbusch@kernel.org, hch@lst.de, sagi@grimberg.me, jejb@linux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, djwong@kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, brauner@kernel.org, dchinner@redhat.com, jack@suse.cz, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, jbongio@google.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, ojaswin@linux.ibm.com, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org, nilay@linux.ibm.com, ritesh.list@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] block atomic writes Message-ID: References: <20240326133813.3224593-1-john.g.garry@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "Linux-nvme" Errors-To: linux-nvme-bounces+linux-nvme=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 05:05:20AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 10:50:47AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 11:06:00AM +0100, John Garry wrote: > > > On 04/04/2024 17:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > > > The thing is that there's no requirement for an interface as complex as > > > > > > the one you're proposing here. I've talked to a few database people > > > > > > and all they want is to increase the untorn write boundary from "one > > > > > > disc block" to one database block, typically 8kB or 16kB. > > > > > > > > > > > > So they would be quite happy with a much simpler interface where they > > > > > > set the inode block size at inode creation time, > > > > > We want to support untorn writes for bdev file operations - how can we set > > > > > the inode block size there? Currently it is based on logical block size. > > > > ioctl(BLKBSZSET), I guess? That currently limits to PAGE_SIZE, but I > > > > think we can remove that limitation with the bs>PS patches. > > > > I can say a bit more on this, as I explored that. Essentially Matthew, > > yes, I got that to work but it requires a set of different patches. We have > > what we tried and then based on feedback from Chinner we have a > > direction on what to try next. The last effort on that front was having the > > iomap aops for bdev be used and lifting the PAGE_SIZE limit up to the > > page cache limits. The crux on that front was that we end requiring > > disabling BUFFER_HEAD and that is pretty limitting, so my old > > implementation had dynamic aops so to let us use the buffer-head aops > > only when using filesystems which require it and use iomap aops > > otherwise. But as Chinner noted we learned through the DAX experience > > that's not a route we want to again try, so the real solution is to > > extend iomap bdev aops code with buffer-head compatibility. > > Have you tried just using the buffer_head code? I think you heard bad > advice at last LSFMM. Since then I've landed a bunch of patches which > remove PAGE_SIZE assumptions throughout the buffer_head code, and while > I haven't tried it, it might work. And it might be easier to make work > than adding more BH hacks to the iomap code. I have considered it but the issue is that *may work* isn't good enough and without a test plan for buffer-heads on a real filesystem this may never suffice. Addressing a buffere-head iomap compat for the block device cache is less error prone here for now. Luis