linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] fuse writable mmap design

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Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:42:38 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] fuse writable mmap design


On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:37 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > I'm somewhat confused by the complexity. Currently we can already have a
> > lot of dirty pages from FUSE (up to the per BDI dirty limit - so
> > basically up to the total dirty limit).
> > 
> > How is having them dirty from mmap'ed writes different?
> 
> Nope, fuse never had dirty pages.  It does normal writes
> synchronously, just updating the cache.
> 
> The dirty accounting and then the per-bdi throttling basically made it
> possible _at_all_ to have a chance at a writepage implementation which
> is not deadlocky (so thanks for those ;).
> 
> But there's still the throttle_vm_writeout() thing, and the other
> places where the kernel is waiting for a write to complete, which just
> cannot be done within a constrained time if an unprivileged userspace
> process is involved.

Ah, ok, your initial story missed this part (not being intimately
familiar with FUSE made all that somewhat obscure).

The next point then, I'd expect your fuse_page_mkwrite() to push
writeout of your 32-odd mmap pages instead of poll.



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