From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: provide filemap_range_needs_writeback() helper
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:22:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210224172250.GD849@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210224164455.1096727-2-axboe@kernel.dk>
On Wed 24-02-21 09:44:53, Jens Axboe wrote:
> For O_DIRECT reads/writes, we check if we need to issue a call to
> filemap_write_and_wait_range() to issue and/or wait for writeback for any
> page in the given range. The existing mechanism just checks for a page in
> the range, which is suboptimal for IOCB_NOWAIT as we'll fallback to the
> slow path (and needing retry) if there's just a clean page cache page in
> the range.
>
> Provide filemap_range_needs_writeback() which tries a little harder to
> check if we actually need to issue and/or wait for writeback in the
> range.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Looks good to me. Feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Honza
> ---
> include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++
> mm/filemap.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index 6d8b1e7337e4..4925275e6365 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -2633,6 +2633,8 @@ static inline int filemap_fdatawait(struct address_space *mapping)
>
> extern bool filemap_range_has_page(struct address_space *, loff_t lstart,
> loff_t lend);
> +extern bool filemap_range_needs_writeback(struct address_space *,
> + loff_t lstart, loff_t lend);
> extern int filemap_write_and_wait_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> loff_t lstart, loff_t lend);
> extern int __filemap_fdatawrite_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 6ff2a3fb0dc7..13338f877677 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -635,6 +635,49 @@ static bool mapping_needs_writeback(struct address_space *mapping)
> return mapping->nrpages;
> }
>
> +/**
> + * filemap_range_needs_writeback - check if range potentially needs writeback
> + * @mapping: address space within which to check
> + * @start_byte: offset in bytes where the range starts
> + * @end_byte: offset in bytes where the range ends (inclusive)
> + *
> + * Find at least one page in the range supplied, usually used to check if
> + * direct writing in this range will trigger a writeback. Used by O_DIRECT
> + * read/write with IOCB_NOWAIT, to see if the caller needs to do
> + * filemap_write_and_wait_range() before proceeding.
> + *
> + * Return: %true if the caller should do filemap_write_and_wait_range() before
> + * doing O_DIRECT to a page in this range, %false otherwise.
> + */
> +bool filemap_range_needs_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
> + loff_t start_byte, loff_t end_byte)
> +{
> + XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, start_byte >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> + pgoff_t max = end_byte >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> + struct page *page;
> +
> + if (!mapping_needs_writeback(mapping))
> + return false;
> + if (!mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY) &&
> + !mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK))
> + return false;
> + if (end_byte < start_byte)
> + return false;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + xas_for_each(&xas, page, max) {
> + if (xas_retry(&xas, page))
> + continue;
> + if (xa_is_value(page))
> + continue;
> + if (PageDirty(page) || PageLocked(page) || PageWriteback(page))
> + break;
> + }
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> + return page != NULL;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(filemap_range_needs_writeback);
> +
> /**
> * filemap_write_and_wait_range - write out & wait on a file range
> * @mapping: the address_space for the pages
> --
> 2.30.0
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-24 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-24 16:44 [PATCHSET v3 0/3] Improve IOCB_NOWAIT O_DIRECT reads Jens Axboe
2021-02-24 16:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: provide filemap_range_needs_writeback() helper Jens Axboe
2021-02-24 16:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-24 16:53 ` Jens Axboe
2021-02-24 17:22 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2021-02-24 16:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: use filemap_range_needs_writeback() for O_DIRECT reads Jens Axboe
2021-02-24 16:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-24 17:23 ` Jan Kara
2021-02-24 16:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] iomap: " Jens Axboe
2021-02-24 17:25 ` Jan Kara
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-09 2:30 [PATCHSET v2 0/3] Improve IOCB_NOWAIT " Jens Axboe
2021-02-09 2:30 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: provide filemap_range_needs_writeback() helper Jens Axboe
2021-02-09 7:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 14:30 ` Jens Axboe
2021-02-08 22:18 [PATCHSET 0/3] Improve IOCB_NOWAIT O_DIRECT Jens Axboe
2021-02-08 22:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: provide filemap_range_needs_writeback() helper Jens Axboe
2021-02-08 23:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-08 23:21 ` Jens Axboe
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