From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: RFC: hold i_rwsem until aio completes
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 18:46:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200203174641.GA20035@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200118092838.GB9407@dread.disaster.area>
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 08:28:38PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> I think it's pretty gross, actually. It makes the same mistake made
> with locking in the old direct IO code - it encodes specific lock
> operations via flags into random locations in the DIO path. This is
> a very slippery slope, and IMO it is an layering violation to encode
> specific filesystem locking smeantics into a layer that is supposed
> to be generic and completely filesystem agnostic. i.e. this
> mechanism breaks if a filesystem moves to a different type of lock
> (e.g. range locks), and history teaches us that we'll end up making
> a horrible, unmaintainable mess to support different locking
> mechanisms and contexts.
>
> I think that we should be moving to a model where the filesystem
> provides an unlock method in the iomap operations structure, and if
> the method is present in iomap_dio_complete() it gets called for the
> filesystem to unlock the inode at the appropriate point. This also
> allows the filesystem to provide a different method for read or
> write unlock, depending on what type of lock it held at submission.
> This gets rid of the need for the iomap code to know what type of
> lock the caller holds, too.
I'd rather avoid yet another method. But I think with a little
tweaking we can move the unlock into the ->end_io method.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-03 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 16:12 RFC: hold i_rwsem until aio completes Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 01/12] mm: fix a comment in sys_swapon Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-10 23:29 ` Andrew Morton
2020-02-12 7:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 02/12] locking/rwsem: Exit early when held by an anonymous owner Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 18:17 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-14 18:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 18:33 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-14 18:55 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 03/12] xfs: fix IOCB_NOWAIT handling in xfs_file_dio_aio_read Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 04/12] gfs2: move setting current->backing_dev_info Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 05/12] gfs2: fix O_SYNC write handling Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-27 9:03 ` [Cluster-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-28 16:57 ` Bob Peterson
2020-02-06 15:31 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 06/12] iomap: pass a flags value to iomap_dio_rw Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 07/12] iomap: allow holding i_rwsem until aio completion Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 08/12] ext4: hold i_rwsem until AIO completes Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 21:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-15 6:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 09/12] gfs2: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 10/12] xfs: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 11/12] xfs: don't set IOMAP_DIO_SYNCHRONOUS for unaligned I/O Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 12/12] iomap: remove the inode_dio_begin/end calls Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 18:47 ` RFC: hold i_rwsem until aio completes Matthew Wilcox
2020-01-15 6:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 19:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-15 6:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 13:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-15 14:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-15 14:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-15 19:03 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-15 19:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-18 22:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-01-15 15:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 16:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-16 14:00 ` Jan Kara
2020-02-03 17:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-18 9:28 ` Dave Chinner
2020-02-03 17:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-02-03 23:02 ` Dave Chinner
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