linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 7/8] nowait aio: xfs

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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2017 07:40:58 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.de>
Cc:     jack@...e.com, hch@...radead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] nowait aio: xfs

> @@ -528,12 +528,17 @@ xfs_file_dio_aio_write(
>  	    ((iocb->ki_pos + count) & mp->m_blockmask)) {
>  		unaligned_io = 1;
>  		iolock = XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL;
> +		if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT)
> +			return -EAGAIN;

So all unaligned I/O will return -EAGAIN?  Why?  Also please explain
that reason in a comment right here.

> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
> index 1aa3abd..84f981a 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
> @@ -1020,6 +1020,11 @@ xfs_file_iomap_begin(
>  	if ((flags & IOMAP_REPORT) ||
>  	    (xfs_is_reflink_inode(ip) &&
>  	     (flags & IOMAP_WRITE) && (flags & IOMAP_DIRECT))) {
> +		/* Allocations due to reflinks */
> +		if ((flags & IOMAP_NOWAIT) && !(flags & IOMAP_REPORT)) {
> +			error = -EAGAIN;
> +			goto out_unlock;
> +		}

FYI, this code looks very different in current Linus' tree - I think
you're on some old kernel base.