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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] fs: add a F_IOINFO fcntl
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 16:11:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170301151108.GG12248@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170228165139.GI5297@birch.djwong.org>

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 08:51:39AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hm... is fio_alignment is specified in units of bytes?

Yes.

> If so, then
> shouldn't this be a __u32 so that we can handle some weird future device
> that wants, say, 1MB alignment for its atomic IO?

That would be pretty useless.  Anything bigger than sector / block
size would not really be usable for typical applications.

> Though, now that I look at the XFS ioinfo patch, I guess fio_alignment
> is set only for O_DIRECT files?

Yes.

> So it's really the required alignment
> for directio operations.

For buffered I/O we can write at byte granularity and still use the
atomic commits, but for direct I/O we can only COW at block size
granularity.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-01 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-28 14:57 [RFC] failure atomic writes for file systems and block devices Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 01/12] uapi/fs: add O_ATOMIC to the open flags Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 02/12] iomap: pass IOMAP_* flags to actors Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 03/12] iomap: add a IOMAP_ATOMIC flag Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 04/12] fs: add a BH_Atomic flag Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 05/12] fs: add a F_IOINFO fcntl Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 16:51   ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-03-01 15:11     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 06/12] xfs: cleanup is_reflink checks Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 07/12] xfs: implement failure-atomic writes Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 23:09   ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-03-01 15:17     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 08/12] xfs: implement the F_IOINFO fcntl Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 09/12] block: advertize max atomic write limit Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 10/12] block_dev: set REQ_NOMERGE for O_ATOMIC writes Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 11/12] block_dev: implement the F_IOINFO fcntl Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 12/12] nvme: export the atomic write limit Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 20:48 ` [RFC] failure atomic writes for file systems and block devices Chris Mason
2017-02-28 20:48   ` Chris Mason
2017-03-01 15:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-28 23:22 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-03-01 15:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-01 11:21 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-01 15:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-01 15:07     ` Christoph Hellwig

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