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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-rdma <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Discuss least bad options for resolving longterm-GUP usage by RDMA
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:06:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190211180654.GB24692@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iHso+PqAm-4NfF0svoK4mELJMSWNp+vsG43UaW1S2eew@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 09:22:58AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:

> I honestly don't like the idea that random subsystems can pin down
> file blocks as a side effect of gup on the result of mmap. Recall that
> it's not just RDMA that wants this guarantee. It seems safer to have
> the file be in an explicit block-allocation-immutable-mode so that the
> fallocate man page can describe this error case. Otherwise how would
> you describe the scenarios under which FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE fails?

I rather liked CL's version of this - ftruncate/etc is simply racing
with a parallel pwrite - and it doesn't fail.

But it also doesnt' trucate/create a hole. Another thread wrote to it
right away and the 'hole' was essentially instantly reallocated. This
is an inherent, pre-existing, race in the ftrucate/etc APIs.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-11 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-05 17:50 [LSF/MM TOPIC] Discuss least bad options for resolving longterm-GUP usage by RDMA Ira Weiny
2019-02-05 18:01 ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-06 21:31   ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-06  9:50 ` Jan Kara
2019-02-06 17:31   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-06 17:52     ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 18:32       ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 18:35         ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 18:44           ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 18:52           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-06 19:45             ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 20:14               ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 21:04                 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 21:12                   ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 19:16         ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-06 19:40           ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 20:16             ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:20               ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 20:28                 ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:41                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 20:47                     ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:49                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 20:50                         ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:31                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-06 20:39                 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-06 20:54                 ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 16:48                   ` Jan Kara
2019-02-06 20:24             ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-06 21:03           ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-06 22:08             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-06 22:24               ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 22:44                 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 23:21                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-06 23:30                     ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 23:41                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07  0:22                         ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  5:33                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07  1:57                   ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07  2:48                     ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  2:42                   ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07  3:13                     ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07 17:23                       ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-07 16:25                   ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 16:55                     ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-07 17:35                       ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-07 18:17                         ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-08  4:43                       ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-08 11:10                         ` Jan Kara
2019-02-08 20:50                           ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 10:24                             ` Jan Kara
2019-02-11 17:22                               ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 18:06                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2019-02-11 18:15                                   ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 18:19                                   ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-11 18:26                                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 18:40                                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-11 19:58                                         ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 20:49                                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 21:02                                             ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 21:09                                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-12 16:34                                                 ` Jan Kara
2019-02-12 16:55                                                   ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-13 15:06                                                     ` Jan Kara
2019-02-12 16:36                                               ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-12 16:44                                                 ` Jan Kara
2019-02-11 21:08                                     ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-11 21:22                                     ` John Hubbard
2019-02-11 22:12                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 22:33                                         ` John Hubbard
2019-02-12 16:39                                           ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-13  2:58                                             ` John Hubbard
2019-02-12 16:28                                   ` Jan Kara
2019-02-14 20:26                                   ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-14 20:50                                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-14 21:39                                       ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-15  1:19                                         ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-15 15:42                                           ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-15 18:08                                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-15 18:31                                               ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-15 22:00                                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-15 23:38                                                   ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-16 22:42                                                     ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-17  2:54                                                     ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-12 16:07                                 ` Jan Kara
2019-02-12 21:53                                   ` Dan Williams
2019-02-08 21:20                           ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-08 15:33                         ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-07 17:24                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-07 17:26                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07  3:52                 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-07  5:23                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07  6:00                     ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07 17:17                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07 23:54                         ` Dan Williams
2019-02-08  1:44                           ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-08  5:19                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-08  7:20                             ` Dan Williams
2019-02-08 15:42                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07 15:04                     ` Chuck Lever
2019-02-07 15:28                       ` Tom Talpey
2019-02-07 15:37                         ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 15:41                           ` Tom Talpey
2019-02-07 15:56                             ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 16:57                         ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-07 21:31                           ` Tom Talpey
2019-02-07 16:54                     ` Ira Weiny

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