From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: "Andreas Grünbacher" <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>
Cc: cluster-devel <cluster-devel@redhat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v3 5/7] iomap: Support restarting direct I/O requests after user copy failures
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 20:08:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210726180847.GO20621@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHpGcMLtQ1=WOT1mTUS4=iWBwHLQ-EBzY=+XuSGJfu4gVPYTLw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon 26-07-21 19:45:22, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> schrieb am Mo., 26. Juli 2021, 19:21:
>
> > On Fri 23-07-21 22:58:38, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > In __iomap_dio_rw, when iomap_apply returns an -EFAULT error, complete
> > the
> > > request synchronously and reset the iterator to the start position. This
> > > allows callers to deal with the failure and retry the operation.
> > >
> > > In gfs2, we need to disable page faults while we're holding glocks to
> > prevent
> > > deadlocks. This patch is the minimum solution I could find to make
> > > iomap_dio_rw work with page faults disabled. It's still expensive
> > because any
> > > I/O that was carried out before hitting -EFAULT needs to be retried.
> > >
> > > A possible improvement would be to add an IOMAP_DIO_FAULT_RETRY or
> > similar flag
> > > that would allow iomap_dio_rw to return a short result when hitting
> > -EFAULT.
> > > Callers could then retry only the rest of the request after dealing with
> > the
> > > page fault.
> > >
> > > Asynchronous requests turn into synchronous requests up to the point of
> > the
> > > page fault in any case, but they could be retried asynchronously after
> > dealing
> > > with the page fault. To make that work, the completion notification
> > would have
> > > to include the bytes read or written before the page fault(s) as well,
> > and we'd
> > > need an additional iomap_dio_rw argument for that.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > > fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 9 +++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> > > index cc0b4bc8861b..b0a494211bb4 100644
> > > --- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> > > +++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> > > @@ -561,6 +561,15 @@ __iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter
> > *iter,
> > > ret = iomap_apply(inode, pos, count, iomap_flags, ops, dio,
> > > iomap_dio_actor);
> > > if (ret <= 0) {
> > > + if (ret == -EFAULT) {
> > > + /*
> > > + * To allow retrying the request, fail
> > > + * synchronously and reset the iterator.
> > > + */
> > > + wait_for_completion = true;
> > > + iov_iter_revert(dio->submit.iter,
> > dio->size);
> > > + }
> > > +
> >
> > Hum, OK, but this means that if userspace submits large enough write, GFS2
> > will livelock trying to complete it? While other filesystems can just
> > submit multiple smaller bios constructed in iomap_apply() (paging in
> > different parts of the buffer) and thus complete the write?
> >
>
> No. First, this affects reads but not writes. We cannot just blindly repeat
> writes; when a page fault occurs in the middle of a write, the result will
> be a short write. For reads, the plan is to ads a flag to allow
> iomap_dio_rw to return a partial result when a page fault occurs.
> (Currently, it fails the entire request.) Then we can handle the page fault
> and complete the rest of the request.
>
> The changes needed for that are simple on the iomap side, but we need to go
> through some gymnastics for handling the page fault without giving up the
> glock in the non-contended case. There will still be the potential for
> losing the lock and having to re-acquire it, in which case we'll actually
> have to repeat the entire read.
I've missed you've already sent out v4 (I'm catching up after vacation so
my mailbox is a bit of a mess). What's in there addresses my objection.
I'm sorry for the noise.
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-26 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-23 20:58 [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] gfs2: Fix mmap + page fault deadlocks Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-07-23 20:58 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v3 1/7] iov_iter: Introduce fault_in_iov_iter helper Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-07-23 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-24 7:51 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2021-07-24 1:52 ` Al Viro
2021-07-24 8:05 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2021-07-26 16:33 ` Jan Kara
2021-07-26 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-23 20:58 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v3 2/7] gfs2: Add wrapper for iomap_file_buffered_write Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-07-23 20:58 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v3 3/7] gfs2: Fix mmap + page fault deadlocks for buffered I/O Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-07-23 20:58 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v3 4/7] iomap: Fix iomap_dio_rw return value for user copies Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-07-23 20:58 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v3 5/7] iomap: Support restarting direct I/O requests after user copy failures Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-07-26 17:19 ` Jan Kara
2021-07-26 17:45 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2021-07-26 18:08 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2021-07-23 20:58 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v3 6/7] iov_iter: Introduce noio flag to disable page faults Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-07-23 20:58 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v3 7/7] gfs2: Fix mmap + page fault deadlocks for direct I/O Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-07-26 17:02 ` Jan Kara
2021-07-26 17:50 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2021-07-26 18:00 ` Jan Kara
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