Re: io_pgetevents & aio fsync V2

Al Viro
2018-04-06T03:16:33Z

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:26:33AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this patch adds workqueue based fsync offload. Version of this
> patch have been floating around for a couple years, but we now
> have a user with seastar used by ScyllaDB (who sponsored this
> work) that really wants this in addition to the aio poll support.
> More details are in the patch itself.
>
> Because the iocb types have been defined sine day one (and probably
> were supported by RHEL3) libaio already supports these calls as-is.
>
> This also pulls in the aio cleanups and io_pgetevents support previously
> submitted and review as part of the aio poll series. The aio poll
> series will be resubmitted on top of this series

BTW, this is only tangentially related, but... does *anything* call
io_submit() for huge amounts of iocb? Check in do_io_submit() is
insane - "no more than MAX_LONG total of _pointers_". Compat variant
goes for "no more than a page worth of pointers" and there's
a hard limit in ioctx_alloc() - we can't ever get more than
8M slots in ring buffer...