linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/8] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

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Message-Id: <1173220101.6374.118.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:28:21 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, staubach@...hat.com,
	hugh@...itas.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 23:18 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > None what so ever, but I always think of msync as a rare function
> > > (infrequent when compared to (minor) faults overall). But I don't have
> > > numbers backing that up either.
> > > 
> > > Also, the radix tree scan you do isn't exactly cheap either. 
> > > 
> > > So what I was wondering is whether its worth optimizing this at the cost
> > > of another rmap walker. (one with very dubious semantics at that - it
> > > clears the pte dirty bit but doesn't particularly care about that nor
> > > does it respect the PG_dirty / PTE dirty relation)
> > 
> > What this functionality requires is that MS_ASYNC is a full barrier wrt.
> > dirtyness. That is, we want to call set_page_dirty_mappig() as soon as
> > we touch a page in a dirtying fashion after MS_{,A}SYNC gets called.
> > 
> > Hence we need the full page_mkclean() functionality, otherwise we don't
> > set AS_CMTIME again in time.
> 
> AS_CMTIME is only for the case, when the "file modified since the last
> msync" info is lost from the ptes, e.g. because of page reclaim.
> 
> So it doesn't matter if AS_CMTIME is not set, is_page_modified() will
> provide the necessary barrier.

The trouble is, we went from a pull to a push model, and now you're
adding pull code again.

We have PG_dirty correct at all times, I think its no less reasonable to
have AS_CMTIME correct in the same fashion.

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