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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Raphael Carvalho <raphael.scarv@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>,
	andres@anarazel.de
Subject: Re: [RFC] xfs: reduce sub-block DIO serialisation
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:36:13 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210117213613.GC78941@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACz=WechdgSnVHQsg0LKjMiG8kHLujBshmc270yrdjxfpffmDQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 03:45:14PM -0300, Raphael Carvalho wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:46 AM Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > This is the XFS implementation on the sub-block DIO optimisations
> > for written extents that I've mentioned on #xfs and a couple of
> > times now on the XFS mailing list.
> >
> > It takes the approach of using the IOMAP_NOWAIT non-blocking
> > IO submission infrastructure to optimistically dispatch sub-block
> > DIO without exclusive locking. If the extent mapping callback
> > decides that it can't do the unaligned IO without extent
> > manipulation, sub-block zeroing, blocking or splitting the IO into
> > multiple parts, it aborts the IO with -EAGAIN. This allows the high
> > level filesystem code to then take exclusive locks and resubmit the
> > IO once it has guaranteed no other IO is in progress on the inode
> > (the current implementation).
> >
> 
> I like this optimistic approach very much. One question though: If
> application submits IO with RWF_NOWAIT, then this fallback step will be
> avoided and application will receive EAGAIN, right?

Yes, all the proposed patches do this correctly.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-17 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-12  1:07 [RFC] xfs: reduce sub-block DIO serialisation Dave Chinner
2021-01-12  1:07 ` [PATCH 1/6] iomap: convert iomap_dio_rw() to an args structure Dave Chinner
2021-01-12  1:22   ` Damien Le Moal
2021-01-12  1:40   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-01-12  1:53     ` Dave Chinner
2021-01-12 10:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-12  1:07 ` [PATCH 2/6] iomap: move DIO NOWAIT setup up into filesystems Dave Chinner
2021-01-12  1:07 ` [PATCH 3/6] xfs: factor out a xfs_ilock_iocb helper Dave Chinner
2021-01-12  1:07 ` [PATCH 4/6] xfs: make xfs_file_aio_write_checks IOCB_NOWAIT-aware Dave Chinner
2021-01-12  1:07 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfs: split unaligned DIO write code out Dave Chinner
2021-01-12 10:37   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-12  1:07 ` [PATCH 6/6] xfs: reduce exclusive locking on unaligned dio Dave Chinner
2021-01-12 10:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-12 17:01     ` Brian Foster
2021-01-12 17:10       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-12 22:06       ` Dave Chinner
2021-01-12  8:01 ` [RFC] xfs: reduce sub-block DIO serialisation Avi Kivity
2021-01-12 22:13   ` Dave Chinner
2021-01-13  8:00     ` Avi Kivity
2021-01-13 20:38       ` Dave Chinner
2021-01-14  6:48         ` Avi Kivity
2021-01-17 21:34           ` Dave Chinner
2021-01-18  7:41             ` Avi Kivity
     [not found] ` <CACz=WechdgSnVHQsg0LKjMiG8kHLujBshmc270yrdjxfpffmDQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-01-17 21:36   ` Dave Chinner [this message]

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