Re: [PATCH RFC 00/10] RDMA/FS DAX truncate proposal

Ira Weiny
2019-06-13T23:58:50Z

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 08:45:30PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 02:13:21PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 08:27:55AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:25:55AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > > e.g. Process A has an exclusive layout lease on file F. It does an
> > > > IO to file F. The filesystem IO path checks that Process A owns the
> > > > lease on the file and so skips straight through layout breaking
> > > > because it owns the lease and is allowed to modify the layout. It
> > > > then takes the inode metadata locks to allocate new space and write
> > > > new data.
> > > >
> > > > Process B now tries to write to file F. The FS checks whether
> > > > Process B owns a layout lease on file F. It doesn't, so then it
> > > > tries to break the layout lease so the IO can proceed. The layout
> > > > breaking code sees that process A has an exclusive layout lease
> > > > granted, and so returns -ETXTBSY to process B - it is not allowed to
> > > > break the lease and so the IO fails with -ETXTBSY.
> > >
> > > This description doesn't match the behaviour that RDMA wants either.
> > > Even if Process A has a lease on the file, an IO from Process A which
> > > results in blocks being freed from the file is going to result in the
> > > RDMA device being able to write to blocks which are now freed (and
> > > potentially reallocated to another file).
> >
> > I don't understand why this would not work for RDMA? As long as the layout
> > does not change the page pins can remain in place.
>
> Because process A had a layout lease (and presumably a MR) and the
> layout was still modified in way that invalidates the RDMA MR.

Oh sorry I miss read the above... (got Process A and B mixed up...)

Right, but Process A still can't free those blocks because the gup pin exists
on them... So yea it can't _just_ be a layout lease which controls this on the
"file fd".

Ira