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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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  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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