From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v3 0/5] Support for RWF_UNCACHED
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:38:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9269b4e0-829c-8b95-61ff-f3922c6380f6@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191212022155.GQ32169@bombadil.infradead.org>
On 12/11/19 7:21 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 07:03:40PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Tested and cleaned a bit, and added truncate protection through
>> inode_dio_begin()/inode_dio_end().
>>
>> https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=buffered-uncached&id=6dac80bc340dabdcbfb4230b9331e52510acca87
>>
>> This is much faster than the previous page cache dance, and I _think_
>> we're ok as long as we block truncate and hole punching.
>
> What about races between UNCACHED and regular buffered IO? Seems like
> we might end up sending overlapping writes to the device?
The UNCACHED out-of-page-cache IO is just for reads, it's not writes. The
write part is still using the same approach as earlier, though now I bet
it looks kinda slow compared to the read side...
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-12 2:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-11 15:29 [PATCHSET v3 0/5] Support for RWF_UNCACHED Jens Axboe
2019-12-11 15:29 ` [PATCH 1/5] fs: add read support " Jens Axboe
2019-12-11 15:29 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: make generic_perform_write() take a struct kiocb Jens Axboe
2019-12-11 15:29 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: make buffered writes work with RWF_UNCACHED Jens Axboe
2019-12-11 15:29 ` [PATCH 4/5] iomap: pass in the write_begin/write_end flags to iomap_actor Jens Axboe
2019-12-11 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-11 15:29 ` [PATCH 5/5] iomap: support RWF_UNCACHED for buffered writes Jens Axboe
2019-12-11 17:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-12-11 18:05 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 22:34 ` Dave Chinner
2019-12-13 0:54 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-13 0:57 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-16 4:17 ` Dave Chinner
2019-12-17 14:31 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-18 0:49 ` Dave Chinner
2019-12-18 1:01 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-11 17:37 ` [PATCHSET v3 0/5] Support for RWF_UNCACHED Linus Torvalds
2019-12-11 17:56 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-11 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-11 19:34 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-11 20:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-11 20:08 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-11 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-11 23:41 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 1:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-12 1:11 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 1:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-12 1:29 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-12 1:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-12-12 2:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-12 17:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-12-12 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-12 20:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-12-12 1:41 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 1:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-12 1:09 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 2:03 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 2:10 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 2:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-12-12 2:38 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-12-12 22:18 ` Dave Chinner
2019-12-13 1:32 ` Chris Mason
2020-01-07 17:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-08 14:09 ` Chris Mason
2020-02-01 10:33 ` Andres Freund
2019-12-11 20:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-12-11 20:04 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 10:44 ` Martin Steigerwald
2019-12-12 15:16 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 21:45 ` Martin Steigerwald
2019-12-12 22:15 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-12 22:18 ` Linus Torvalds
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