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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v2] Fix O_SYNC AIO DIO
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:53:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130830155301.GB13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376471456-11966-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:10:54AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hello,
> 
>   this is second iteration of patches to fix handling of O_SYNC AIO DIO.
> Since previous version I've addressed Dave's comments:
>  - slightly expanded changelog of the first patch
>  - workqueue is now created with parameters allowing paralelism
>  - workqueue name contains sb->s_id
>  - workqueue is created on demand (I decided to do this to reduce the overhead
>    in unnecessary cases)
> 
> The patchset survives xfstests run for ext4 & xfs so it should be sane. Since
> this touches several filesystems (although only ext4 & xfs are non-trivial),
> the question is who should carry these patches. Maybe Al? But since xfs and
> ext4 changes are non-trivial, I'd like to have a review from their
> developers...

Looks sane, except that I'd probably put destroying the queue after
evict_inodes(), next to ->put_super() call.

Said that, there's another interesting problem in the code affected by that
sucker: generic_file_aio_write() might very well sync the wrong range.
Consider O_APPEND case; __generic_file_aio_write() will call
generic_write_checks(), which will update its copy of pos, and proceed to
write starting from there.  All right and proper, but then we return into
generic_file_aio_write() and sync the range of the right length, starting
at the *original* value of pos...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-30 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-14  9:10 [PATCH 0/2 v2] Fix O_SYNC AIO DIO Jan Kara
2013-08-14  9:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] direct-io: Implement generic deferred AIO completions Jan Kara
2013-08-14  9:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] direct-io: Handle O_(D)SYNC AIO Jan Kara
2013-08-30 15:53 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-09-04 10:54   ` [PATCH 0/2 v2] Fix O_SYNC AIO DIO Jan Kara

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