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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] what to do with IOCB_DSYNC?
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 12:48:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <737a889f-93b9-039f-7708-c15a21fbca2a@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YoqDTV9sa4k9b9nb@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk>

On 5/22/22 12:39 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 12:29:16PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> It was sent out as a discussion point, it's not a submission and it's by
>> no means complete (as mentioned!). If you're working on this, I'd be
>> happy to drop it, it's not like I really enjoy the iov_iter code... And
>> it sounds like you are?
> 
> *snort*
> 
> Yes, I am working on it.  As for enjoying that thing...  I'm not fond of

OK great, I'll abandon this sandbox. Let me know when you have something
to test, and I can compare some numbers between non-iter, iter,
iter-with-ubuf.

> forests of macros, to put it mildly.  Even in the trimmed form it still
> stinks, and places like copy_page_to_iter for iovec are still fucking
> awful wrt misguided microoptimization attempts - mine, at that, so I've
> nobody else to curse ;-/

And it's not even clear which ones won't work with the generic variants,
and which ones are just an optimization. I suspect a lot of the icache
bloat from this just makes things worse...

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-22 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-21  0:46 [RFC] what to do with IOCB_DSYNC? Al Viro
2021-06-21 13:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-21 14:03   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-21 14:09     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-21 14:16       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-21 14:22         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-21 14:32           ` Al Viro
2021-06-21 14:35             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-21 15:22               ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-21 17:48               ` Al Viro
2022-05-21 19:03                 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-21 22:14                   ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-22  7:45                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-22 10:23                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-05-22 10:36                         ` Al Viro
2022-05-22 11:15                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-05-22 11:45                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-22 12:39                               ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-22 12:48                                 ` Al Viro
2022-05-22 13:02                                   ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-22 13:07                                     ` Al Viro
2022-05-22 13:09                                       ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-22 18:06                                         ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-22 18:25                                           ` Al Viro
2022-05-22 18:29                                             ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-22 18:39                                               ` Al Viro
2022-05-22 18:48                                                 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2022-05-22 19:04                                                   ` Al Viro
2022-05-22 20:03                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-23  0:42                                                       ` Al Viro
2022-05-23  1:22                                                         ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-23  1:28                                                           ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-23  1:50                                                             ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-23  2:43                                                               ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-23 14:22                                                                 ` Al Viro
2022-05-23 14:34                                                                   ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-23 14:47                                                                     ` Al Viro
2022-05-23 15:12                                                                       ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-23 15:44                                                                         ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-23 15:49                                                                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-05-23 15:55                                                                             ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-23 16:03                                                                               ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-26 14:46                                                                                 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-27 10:09                                                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2022-05-27 10:15                                                                                     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-27 14:45                                                                                       ` Samuel Neves
2022-05-27 10:25                                                                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2022-05-27 10:36                                                                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-05-28 20:54                                                                                         ` Sedat Dilek
2022-05-28 20:38                                                                                       ` Sedat Dilek
2022-05-28 20:39                                                                                         ` Sedat Dilek
2022-05-23 16:15                                                                         ` Al Viro
2022-05-25 14:34                                                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-05-26 23:19                                                     ` Al Viro
2022-05-27 14:51                                                       ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-22 12:21                             ` Al Viro
2022-05-22  7:43                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-22 12:41                   ` Al Viro
2022-05-22 12:51                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-21 14:22       ` Al Viro

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