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From: Anna Fuchs <anna.fuchs@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org
Subject: [lustre-devel] Request arc buffer, zerocopy
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:54:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1560426887.3392.0@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> (raw)

Dear all,

in osd-zfs/osd_io.c:osd_bufs_get_write you can find a comment regarding 
zerocopy:

	/*
	 * currently only full blocks are subject to zerocopy approach:
	 * so that we're sure nobody is trying to update the same block
	 */

Whenever a block to be written is full, an arc buffer is requested, 
otherwise alloc_page.

I do not really understand the conclusion. Why and how do full blocks 
prevent updates?
And put it differently - why not to try zerocopy for not full blocks?
What could happen if I tried to request an arc buffer for e.g. a block 
with missing last page?

I would be greateful for details.
Best regards
Anna






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             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-13 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-13 11:54 Anna Fuchs [this message]
2019-06-13 17:26 ` [lustre-devel] Request arc buffer, zerocopy Andreas Dilger
2019-06-26 13:11 ` Anna Fuchs
2019-06-27 18:13   ` Matthew Ahrens
2019-06-28  9:50     ` Anna Fuchs
2019-07-05 18:15       ` Matthew Ahrens

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