Message-ID: <20130422163437.GA16238@tucsk.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:34:37 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	"Maxim V. Patlasov" <MPatlasov@...allels.com>
Cc:	dev@...allels.com, xemul@...allels.com,
	fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, bfoster@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] fuse: add support of async IO

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 07:20:41PM +0400, Maxim V. Patlasov wrote:
> The patch implements a framework to process an IO request asynchronously. The
> idea is to associate several fuse requests with a single kiocb by means of
> fuse_io_priv structure. The structure plays the same role for FUSE as 'struct
> dio' for direct-io.c.
> 
> The framework is supposed to be used like this:
>  - someone (who wants to process an IO asynchronously) allocates fuse_io_priv
>    and initializes it setting 'async' field to non-zero value.
>  - as soon as fuse request is filled, it can be submitted (in non-blocking way)
>    by fuse_async_req_send()
>  - when all submitted requests are ACKed by userspace, io->reqs drops to zero
>    triggering aio_complete()
> 
> In case of IO initiated by libaio, aio_complete() will finish processing the
> same way as in case of dio_complete() calling aio_complete(). But the
> framework may be also used for internal FUSE use when initial IO request
> was synchronous (from user perspective), but it's beneficial to process it
> asynchronously. Then the caller should wait on kiocb explicitly and
> aio_complete() will wake the caller up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@...allels.com>
> ---
>  fs/fuse/file.c   |   92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  fs/fuse/fuse_i.h |   17 ++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
> index 6685cb0..8dd931f 100644
> --- a/fs/fuse/file.c
> +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
> @@ -503,6 +503,98 @@ static void fuse_release_user_pages(struct fuse_req *req, int write)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * In case of short read, the caller sets 'pos' to the position of
> + * actual end of fuse request in IO request. Otherwise, if bytes_requested
> + * == bytes_transferred or rw == WRITE, the caller sets 'pos' to -1.
> + *
> + * An example:
> + * User requested DIO read of 64K. It was splitted into two 32K fuse requests,
> + * both submitted asynchronously. The first of them was ACKed by userspace as
> + * fully completed (req->out.args[0].size == 32K) resulting in pos == -1. The
> + * second request was ACKed as short, e.g. only 1K was read, resulting in
> + * pos == 33K.
> + *
> + * Thus, when all fuse requests are completed, the minimal non-negative 'pos'
> + * will be equal to the length of the longest contiguous fragment of
> + * transferred data starting from the beginning of IO request.
> + */
> +static void fuse_aio_complete(struct fuse_io_priv *io, int err, ssize_t pos)
> +{
> +	int left;
> +
> +	spin_lock(&io->lock);
> +	if (err)
> +		io->err = io->err ? : err;
> +	else if (pos >= 0 && (io->bytes < 0 || pos < io->bytes))
> +		io->bytes = pos;
> +
> +	left = --io->reqs;
> +	spin_unlock(&io->lock);
> +
> +	if (!left) {
> +		long res;
> +
> +		if (io->err)
> +			res = io->err;
> +		else if (io->bytes >= 0 && io->write)
> +			res = -EIO;
> +		else {
> +			res = io->bytes < 0 ? io->size : io->bytes;
> +
> +			if (!is_sync_kiocb(io->iocb)) {
> +				struct path *path = &io->iocb->ki_filp->f_path;
> +				struct inode *inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
> +				struct fuse_conn *fc = get_fuse_conn(inode);
> +				struct fuse_inode *fi = get_fuse_inode(inode);
> +
> +				spin_lock(&fc->lock);
> +				fi->attr_version = ++fc->attr_version;
> +				spin_unlock(&fc->lock);

Hmm, what is this?  Incrementing the attr version without setting any attributes
doesn't make sense.

Thanks,
Miklos


> +			}
> +		}
> +
> +		aio_complete(io->iocb, res, 0);
> +		kfree(io);
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +static void fuse_aio_complete_req(struct fuse_conn *fc, struct fuse_req *req)
> +{
> +	struct fuse_io_priv *io = req->io;
> +	ssize_t pos = -1;
> +
> +	fuse_release_user_pages(req, !io->write);
> +
> +	if (io->write) {
> +		if (req->misc.write.in.size != req->misc.write.out.size)
> +			pos = req->misc.write.in.offset - io->offset +
> +				req->misc.write.out.size;
> +	} else {
> +		if (req->misc.read.in.size != req->out.args[0].size)
> +			pos = req->misc.read.in.offset - io->offset +
> +				req->out.args[0].size;
> +	}
> +
> +	fuse_aio_complete(io, req->out.h.error, pos);
> +}
> +
> +static size_t fuse_async_req_send(struct fuse_conn *fc, struct fuse_req *req,
> +		size_t num_bytes, struct fuse_io_priv *io)
> +{
> +	spin_lock(&io->lock);
> +	io->size += num_bytes;
> +	io->reqs++;
> +	spin_unlock(&io->lock);
> +
> +	req->io = io;
> +	req->end = fuse_aio_complete_req;
> +
> +	fuse_request_send_background(fc, req);
> +
> +	return num_bytes;
> +}
> +
>  static size_t fuse_send_read(struct fuse_req *req, struct file *file,
>  			     loff_t pos, size_t count, fl_owner_t owner)
>  {
> diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
> index e4f70ea..e0a5b65 100644
> --- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
> +++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
> @@ -219,6 +219,20 @@ enum fuse_req_state {
>  	FUSE_REQ_FINISHED
>  };
>  
> +/** The request IO state (for asynchronous processing) */
> +struct fuse_io_priv {
> +	int async;
> +	spinlock_t lock;
> +	unsigned reqs;
> +	ssize_t bytes;
> +	size_t size;
> +	__u64 offset;
> +	bool write;
> +	int err;
> +	struct kiocb *iocb;
> +	struct file *file;
> +};
> +
>  /**
>   * A request to the client
>   */
> @@ -323,6 +337,9 @@ struct fuse_req {
>  	/** Inode used in the request or NULL */
>  	struct inode *inode;
>  
> +	/** AIO control block */
> +	struct fuse_io_priv *io;
> +
>  	/** Link on fi->writepages */
>  	struct list_head writepages_entry;
>  
> 
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