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From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
	virtio-fs@redhat.com, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] virtiofs: Add DAX support
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:22:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxi_Xrf+iyP6KVugFgLOfzUvscMr0de0KxQo+jHNBCA9oA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200304165845.3081-1-vgoyal@redhat.com>

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 7:01 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This patch series adds DAX support to virtiofs filesystem. This allows
> bypassing guest page cache and allows mapping host page cache directly
> in guest address space.
>
> When a page of file is needed, guest sends a request to map that page
> (in host page cache) in qemu address space. Inside guest this is
> a physical memory range controlled by virtiofs device. And guest
> directly maps this physical address range using DAX and hence gets
> access to file data on host.
>
> This can speed up things considerably in many situations. Also this
> can result in substantial memory savings as file data does not have
> to be copied in guest and it is directly accessed from host page
> cache.
>
> Most of the changes are limited to fuse/virtiofs. There are couple
> of changes needed in generic dax infrastructure and couple of changes
> in virtio to be able to access shared memory region.
>
> These patches apply on top of 5.6-rc4 and are also available here.
>
> https://github.com/rhvgoyal/linux/commits/vivek-04-march-2020
>
> Any review or feedback is welcome.
>
[...]
>  drivers/dax/super.c                |    3 +-
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c       |   32 +
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c |  107 +++
>  fs/dax.c                           |   66 +-
>  fs/fuse/dir.c                      |    2 +
>  fs/fuse/file.c                     | 1162 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-

That's a big addition to already big file.c.
Maybe split dax specific code to dax.c?
Can be a post series cleanup too.

Thanks,
Amir.
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Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-04 16:58 [PATCH 00/20] virtiofs: Add DAX support Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 01/20] dax: Modify bdev_dax_pgoff() to handle NULL bdev Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 02/20] dax: Create a range version of dax_layout_busy_page() Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 15:19   ` Ira Weiny
2020-03-10 20:29     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 03/20] virtio: Add get_shm_region method Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 10:53   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 04/20] virtio: Implement get_shm_region for PCI transport Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 11:04   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-10 18:19     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-11 17:34       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-11 19:29         ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 11:12   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-03-10 18:47     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 21:27       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 05/20] virtio: Implement get_shm_region for MMIO transport Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 11:06   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 06/20] virtiofs: Provide a helper function for virtqueue initialization Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 14:10   ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 07/20] fuse: Get rid of no_mount_options Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 14:12   ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 08/20] fuse,virtiofs: Add a mount option to enable dax Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 14:16   ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 09/20] virtio_fs, dax: Set up virtio_fs dax_device Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 10/20] fuse,virtiofs: Keep a list of free dax memory ranges Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 19:29   ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 11/20] fuse: implement FUSE_INIT map_alignment field Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 19:31   ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 12/20] fuse: Introduce setupmapping/removemapping commands Vivek Goyal
2020-03-10 19:49   ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-10 20:33     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-11  7:03       ` Amir Goldstein
2020-03-11 14:19         ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-11 14:41           ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-11 15:12             ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 13/20] fuse, dax: Implement dax read/write operations Vivek Goyal
2020-03-12  9:43   ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-12 16:02     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-13 10:18       ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-13 13:41         ` Vivek Goyal
2020-04-04  0:25   ` Liu Bo
2020-04-14 12:54     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 14/20] fuse,dax: add DAX mmap support Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 15/20] fuse, dax: Take ->i_mmap_sem lock during dax page fault Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 16/20] fuse,virtiofs: Define dax address space operations Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 17/20] fuse,virtiofs: Maintain a list of busy elements Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 18/20] fuse: Release file in process context Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 19/20] fuse: Take inode lock for dax inode truncation Vivek Goyal
2020-03-04 16:58 ` [PATCH 20/20] fuse,virtiofs: Add logic to free up a memory range Vivek Goyal
2020-03-11  5:16   ` Liu Bo
2020-03-11 12:59     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-11 17:24       ` Liu Bo
2020-03-26  0:09   ` Liu Bo
2020-03-27 14:01     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-27 22:06       ` Liu Bo
2020-04-14 19:30         ` Vivek Goyal
2020-04-15 17:22           ` Liu Bo
2020-04-16 19:05             ` Vivek Goyal
2020-04-17 18:05               ` Liu Bo
2020-03-11  5:22 ` Amir Goldstein [this message]
2020-03-11 13:09   ` [PATCH 00/20] virtiofs: Add DAX support Vivek Goyal
2020-03-11 18:48   ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-11 19:32     ` Amir Goldstein
2020-03-11 19:39       ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-11 13:38 ` Patrick Ohly
2020-03-16 13:02   ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-17  8:28     ` Patrick Ohly

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