Re: [PATCH RESEND V11 0/7] fuse: Add support for passthrough read/write

Alessio Balsini
2021-01-19T12:42:13Z

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:06:54PM +0800, Rokudo Yan wrote:
> on Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 5:27 PM Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is the 11th version of the series, rebased on top of v5.11-rc4.
> > Please find the changelog at the bottom of this cover letter.
> >
> > Add support for file system passthrough read/write of files when enabled
> > in userspace through the option FUSE_PASSTHROUGH.
> [...]
>
>
> Hi Allesio,
>
> Could you please add support for passthrough mmap too ?
> If the fuse file opened with passthrough actived, and then map (shared) to (another) process
> address space using mmap interface. As access the file with mmap will pass the vfs cache of fuse,
> but access the file with read/write will bypass the vfs cache of fuse, this may cause inconsistency.
> eg. the reader read the fuse file with mmap() and the writer modify the file with write(), the reader
> may not see the modification immediately since the writer bypass the vfs cache of fuse.
> Actually we have already meet an issue caused by the inconsistency after applying fuse passthrough
> scheme to our product.
>
> Thanks,
> yanwu.

Hi yanwu,

Thank you for your interest in this change.

FUSE passthrough for mmap is an extension that is already in my TODO
list, together with passthrough for directories.
For now I would prefer to keep this series minimal to make the review
process leaner and simpler.
I will start working on extending this series with new features and
addressing more corner cases as soon as these changes get merged, what
do you think?

Thanks,
Alessio