linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/4] fs: kiocb: introduce IOCB_DONT_DIRTY

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Date:	Thu,  7 May 2015 01:08:23 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Zach Brown <zab@...bo.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@...allels.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/4] fs: kiocb: introduce IOCB_DONT_DIRTY_PAGE flag for direct IO

When direct IO is submitted from kernel, it is often unnecessary
to dirty pages, for example of loop, dirtying pages have been
considered in the upper filesystem(over loop) side already, and
they don't need to be dirtied again.

So this patch introduces IOCB_DONT_DIRTY_PAGE flag for direct IO,
and other ITER_BVEC and ITER_KVEC cases might benefit from it too.

The patch is based on previous Dave's patch.

Cc: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
---
 fs/direct-io.c     | 10 +++++++---
 include/linux/fs.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index 745d234..bac0354 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ struct dio {
 	int page_errors;		/* errno from get_user_pages() */
 	int is_async;			/* is IO async ? */
 	bool defer_completion;		/* defer AIO completion to workqueue? */
+	bool should_dirty;		/* if pages should be dirtied */
 	int io_error;			/* IO error in completion path */
 	unsigned long refcount;		/* direct_io_worker() and bios */
 	struct bio *bio_list;		/* singly linked via bi_private */
@@ -393,7 +394,7 @@ static inline void dio_bio_submit(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio)
 	dio->refcount++;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dio->bio_lock, flags);
 
-	if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ)
+	if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ && dio->should_dirty)
 		bio_set_pages_dirty(bio);
 
 	if (sdio->submit_io)
@@ -464,13 +465,14 @@ static int dio_bio_complete(struct dio *dio, struct bio *bio)
 	if (!uptodate)
 		dio->io_error = -EIO;
 
-	if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ) {
+	if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ && dio->should_dirty) {
 		bio_check_pages_dirty(bio);	/* transfers ownership */
 	} else {
 		bio_for_each_segment_all(bvec, bio, i) {
 			struct page *page = bvec->bv_page;
 
-			if (dio->rw == READ && !PageCompound(page))
+			if (dio->rw == READ && !PageCompound(page) &&
+					dio->should_dirty)
 				set_page_dirty_lock(page);
 			page_cache_release(page);
 		}
@@ -1216,6 +1218,8 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
 
 	spin_lock_init(&dio->bio_lock);
 	dio->refcount = 1;
+	dio->should_dirty =
+		iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DONT_DIRTY_PAGE ? false : true;
 
 	sdio.iter = iter;
 	sdio.final_block_in_request =
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 35ec87e..e2a8baa 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ struct writeback_control;
 #define IOCB_EVENTFD		(1 << 0)
 #define IOCB_APPEND		(1 << 1)
 #define IOCB_DIRECT		(1 << 2)
+#define IOCB_DONT_DIRTY_PAGE	(1 << 3)
 
 struct kiocb {
 	struct file		*ki_filp;
-- 
1.9.1

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