From: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <pankaj.raghav@linux.dev>
To: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 09/11] xfs: Implement RWF_NOSERIAL to parallelize RWF_WRITETHROUGH writes
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:33:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aoMMIfyEuuaDFpMh@quentin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <945bb8c88a121580cb07d0311c6742a2584ea6b2.1785908600.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
> }
>
> + /*
> + * Writethrough implies non-serial writes ie writes can go
> + * parallelly.
> + */
> + if (flags & RWF_WRITETHROUGH)
> + kiocb_flags |= IOCB_NOSERIAL;
> +
From a user perspective, shouldn't this be an explicit user flag instead
of implicitly enabling for all RWF_WRITETHROUGH?
Power users who would want performance over POSIX compliance can enable
this but it should not be the other way around IMO.
--
Pankaj
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-17 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-05 6:28 [RFC PATCH v3 00/11] Add buffered write-through support to iomap & xfs Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 01/11] fs: Add counter to track inflight writes that need stable pages Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 02/11] mm: Refactor folio_clear_dirty_for_io() Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 03/11] iomap: Add helper to revert iomap iter Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 04/11] iomap: Add initial support for buffered RWF_WRITETHROUGH Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-17 13:20 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 05/11] xfs: Add RWF_WRITETHROUGH support to xfs Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 06/11] iomap: Add aio support to RWF_WRITETHROUGH Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 07/11] iomap: Add DSYNC " Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-17 13:26 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 08/11] fs: Introduce RWF_NOSERIAL flag to indicate parallel reads/writes Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 09/11] xfs: Implement RWF_NOSERIAL to parallelize RWF_WRITETHROUGH writes Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-17 13:33 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) [this message]
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 10/11] iomap: Avoid folio dirtying in case of RWF_WRITETHROUGH Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05 6:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 11/11] iomap: Handle deadlock due to repeating folios in RWF_WRITETHROUGH Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-08-05 6:35 ` [RFC PATCH v3 00/11] Add buffered write-through support to iomap & xfs Ojaswin Mujoo
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