From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: stop using ioends for direct write completions
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 22:10:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160128211056.GA27287@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160128205333.GF20038@birch.djwong.org>
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:53:33PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 05:16:56AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Any chance to get a review for this? It should really help
> > with sorting out the buffered I/O COW code.
>
> It looks reasonable to me. I separated the dio and buffered CoW remap paths a
> couple of weeks ago, because it seems that IO errors only get passed back as a
> return value from __blockdev_direct_IO, therefore the remapping has to be done
> from xfs_vm_do_dio anyway because we don't want to remap if the write fails.
> Just yesterday I removed the "is_cow" flag from the ioend, so now we're back to
> having a separate XFS_IO_COW ioend type.
For direct I/O we will need something like this to properly support AIO
writes.
> So... reflink doesn't need the patch but OTOH directio doesn't really need
> the overhead of allocating an ioend anyway. :)
Yep.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-28 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-14 10:10 stop using ioends for direct write completions Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-14 10:10 ` [PATCH] xfs: don't use " Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-28 13:16 ` stop using " Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-28 20:53 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-01-28 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-01-28 21:58 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-01-28 22:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-28 22:31 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-01-29 8:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-29 14:12 ` Brian Foster
2016-02-01 21:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-02-02 11:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-02 15:26 ` Brian Foster
2016-02-02 11:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-02 15:31 ` Brian Foster
2016-02-02 16:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-03 22:22 ` Dave Chinner
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