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From: Daniel Phillips <daniel@phunq.net>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: David Lang <david@lang.hm>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	tux3@tux3.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [FYI] tux3: Core changes
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 01:08:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2233e75-a0bc-4732-9d6f-ad4d7cde0bae@phunq.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150526070910.GA3307@quack.suse.cz>

On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 12:09:10 AM PDT, Jan Kara wrote:
>   E.g. video drivers (or infiniband or direct IO for that matter) which
> have buffers in user memory (may be mmapped file), grab references to pages
> and hand out PFNs of those pages to the hardware to store data in them...
> If you fork a page after the driver has handed PFNs to the hardware, you've
> just lost all the writes hardware will do.

Hi Jan,

The page forked because somebody wrote to it with write(2) or mmap write at
the same time as a video driver (or infiniband or direct IO) was doing io 
to
it. Isn't the application trying hard to lose data in that case? It would 
not need page fork to lose data that way.

Regards,

Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-26  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 160+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-28 23:13 Tux3 Report: How fast can we fsync? Daniel Phillips
2015-04-29  2:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-29  6:01   ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-29  6:20     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-29  6:56       ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-29  6:33     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-29  7:23       ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-29 16:42         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-29 19:05           ` xfs: does mkfs.xfs require fancy switches to get decent performance? (was Tux3 Report: How fast can we fsync?) Mike Galbraith
2015-04-29 19:20             ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-04-29 21:12             ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-30  4:40               ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-30  0:20             ` Dave Chinner
2015-04-30  3:35               ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-30  9:00               ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-04-30 14:57                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-04-30 15:59                   ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-30 17:59                   ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-04-30 11:14               ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-30 12:07                 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-30 12:58                   ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-30 13:48                     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-30 14:07                       ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-30 14:28                         ` Howard Chu
2015-04-30 15:14                           ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-30 16:00                             ` Howard Chu
2015-04-30 18:22                             ` Christian Stroetmann
2015-05-11 22:12                             ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-11 23:17                               ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-12  2:34                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-12  5:38                                   ` Dave Chinner
2015-05-12  6:18                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-12 18:39                                       ` David Lang
2015-05-12 20:54                                         ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-12 21:30                                           ` David Lang
2015-05-12 22:27                                             ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-12 22:35                                               ` David Lang
2015-05-12 23:55                                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-13  1:26                                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-13 19:09                                                   ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-05-13 19:37                                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-13 20:02                                                       ` Jeremy Allison
2015-05-13 20:24                                                         ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-13 20:25                                                       ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-05-13 20:38                                                         ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-13 21:10                                                           ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-05-13  0:31                                             ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-12 21:30                                           ` Christian Stroetmann
2015-05-13  7:20                                           ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-13 13:47                                             ` Elifarley Callado Coelho Cruz
2015-05-12  9:03                                   ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-12 11:22                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-12 13:26                                       ` Howard Chu
2015-05-11 23:53                               ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-12  0:12                                 ` David Lang
2015-05-12  4:36                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-12 17:30                                     ` Christian Stroetmann
2015-05-13  7:25                                 ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-13 11:31                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-13 12:41                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-13 13:08                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-13 13:15                                       ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-30 14:33                         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-30 15:24                           ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-29 20:40           ` Tux3 Report: How fast can we fsync? Daniel Phillips
2015-04-29 22:06             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2015-04-30  3:57               ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-30  3:50             ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-30 10:59               ` Daniel Phillips
2015-04-30  1:46 ` Dave Chinner
2015-04-30 10:28   ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-01 15:38     ` Dave Chinner
2015-05-01 23:20       ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-02  1:07         ` David Lang
2015-05-02 10:26           ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-02 16:00             ` Christian Stroetmann
2015-05-02 16:30               ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-02 17:00                 ` Christian Stroetmann
2015-05-12 17:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-12 17:46 ` Tux3 Report: How fast can we fail? Daniel Phillips
2015-05-13 22:07   ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-26 10:03   ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-27  6:41     ` Mosis Tembo
2015-05-27 18:28       ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-27 21:39         ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-27 22:46           ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-28 12:55             ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-05-27  7:37     ` Mosis Tembo
2015-05-27 14:04       ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-05-27 15:21         ` Mosis Tembo
2015-05-27 15:37           ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-05-14  7:37 ` [WIP] tux3: Optimized fsync Daniel Phillips
2015-05-14  8:26 ` [FYI] tux3: Core changes Daniel Phillips
2015-05-14 12:59   ` Rik van Riel
2015-05-15  0:06     ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-15  3:06       ` Rik van Riel
2015-05-15  8:09         ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-15  9:54           ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-15 11:00             ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-16 22:38               ` David Lang
2015-05-18 12:57                 ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-15  9:38         ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-27  7:41           ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-27 18:09             ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-27 21:37               ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-27 22:33                 ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-15  8:05       ` Mel Gorman
2015-05-17 13:26     ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-05-18  2:20       ` Rik van Riel
2015-05-18  7:58         ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-05-19  4:46         ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-21 19:43     ` [WIP][PATCH] tux3: preliminatry nospace handling Daniel Phillips
2015-05-19 14:00   ` [FYI] tux3: Core changes Jan Kara
2015-05-19 19:18     ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-19 20:33       ` David Lang
2015-05-20 14:44         ` Jan Kara
2015-05-20 16:22           ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-20 18:01             ` David Lang
2015-05-20 19:53             ` Rik van Riel
2015-05-20 22:51               ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-21  3:24                 ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-21  3:51                   ` David Lang
2015-05-21 19:53                     ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-26  4:25                       ` Rik van Riel
2015-05-26  4:30                         ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-26  6:04                           ` David Lang
2015-05-26  6:11                             ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-26  6:13                               ` David Lang
2015-05-26  8:09                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-26 10:13                                   ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-26  7:09                               ` Jan Kara
2015-05-26  8:08                                 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2015-05-26  9:00                                   ` Jan Kara
2015-05-26 20:22                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-26 21:36                                       ` Rik van Riel
2015-05-26 21:49                                         ` Daniel Phillips
2015-05-27  8:41                                       ` Jan Kara
2015-06-21 15:36                                         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2015-06-23 16:12                                           ` Jan Kara
2015-07-05 12:54                                             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2015-07-09 16:05                                               ` Jan Kara
2015-07-31  4:44                                                 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2015-07-31 15:37                                                   ` Raymond Jennings
2015-07-31 17:27                                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2015-07-31 18:29                                                       ` David Lang
2015-07-31 18:43                                                         ` Daniel Phillips
2015-07-31 22:12                                                         ` Daniel Phillips
2015-07-31 22:27                                                           ` David Lang
2015-08-01  0:00                                                             ` Daniel Phillips
2015-08-01  0:16                                                               ` Daniel Phillips
2015-08-03 13:07                                                                 ` Jan Kara
2015-08-01 10:55                                                             ` Elifarley Callado Coelho Cruz
2015-08-18 16:39                                                       ` Rik van Riel
2015-08-03 13:42                                                   ` Jan Kara
2015-08-09 13:42                                                     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2015-08-10 12:45                                                       ` Jan Kara
2015-08-16 19:42                                                         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2015-05-26 10:22                                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-05-26 12:33                                     ` Jan Kara
2015-05-26 19:18                                     ` Daniel Phillips

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