Re: [PATCH 07/19] pnfs: add flag to force read-modify-write in ->write_begin

From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/19] pnfs: add flag to force read-modify-write in ->write_begin
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 20:50:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHQdGtQcukSsVFxHwYyjeHk9RkwyT4+qR1buwydULgciAtrndA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1408637375-11343-8-git-send-email-hch@lst.de>

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> Like all block based filesystems, the pNFS block layout driver can't read
> or write at a byte granularity and thus has to perform read-modify-write
> cycles on writes smaller than this granularity.
>
> Add a flag so that the core NFS code always reads a whole page when
> starting a smaller write, so that we can do it in the place where the VFS
> expects it instead of doing in very deadlock prone way in the writeback
> handler.
>
> Note that in theory we could do less than page size reads here for disks
> that have a smaller sector size which are server by a server with a smaller
> pnfs block size.  But so far that doesn't seem like a worthwhile
> optimization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/file.c | 9 +++++++++
>  fs/nfs/pnfs.h | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
> index 524dd80..58566e9 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
>  #include "internal.h"
>  #include "iostat.h"
>  #include "fscache.h"
> +#include "pnfs.h"
>
>  #include "nfstrace.h"
>
> @@ -323,10 +324,18 @@ nfs_file_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
>  static int nfs_want_read_modify_write(struct file *file, struct page *page,
>                         loff_t pos, unsigned len)
>  {
> +       struct nfs_server *server = NFS_SERVER(file->f_mapping->host);
>         unsigned int pglen = nfs_page_length(page);
>         unsigned int offset = pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
>         unsigned int end = offset + len;
>
> +       if (server->pnfs_curr_ld &&
> +           (server->pnfs_curr_ld->flags & PNFS_READ_WHOLE_PAGE)) {
> +               if (!PageUptodate(page))
> +                       return 1;
> +               return 0;
> +       }
> +
>         if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_READ) &&      /* open for read? */
>             !PageUptodate(page) &&              /* Uptodate? */
>             !PagePrivate(page) &&               /* i/o request already? */
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/pnfs.h b/fs/nfs/pnfs.h
> index 16cd14f..302b279 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs.h
> +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs.h
> @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ enum layoutdriver_policy_flags {
>         /* Should the pNFS client commit and return the layout upon a setattr */
>         PNFS_LAYOUTRET_ON_SETATTR       = 1 << 0,
>         PNFS_LAYOUTRET_ON_ERROR         = 1 << 1,
> +       PNFS_READ_WHOLE_PAGE            = 1 << 2,
>  };
>
>  struct nfs4_deviceid_node;
>

This doesn't look as if it will compile without IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NFS_V4).

-- 
Trond Myklebust

Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData

trond.myklebust@primarydata.com