linux-kernel - Re: bcachefs status update (it's done cooking; let's get this sucker merged)

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Message-ID: <20190619082141.GA32409@quack2.suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:21:41 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Zach Brown <zach.brown@...com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: bcachefs status update (it's done cooking; let's get this sucker
 merged)

On Thu 13-06-19 09:02:24, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:21:44PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > This would simplify things a lot and eliminate a really nasty corner case - page
> > faults trigger readahead. Even if the buffer and the direct IO don't overlap,
> > readahead can pull in pages that do overlap with the dio.
> 
> Page cache readahead needs to be moved under the filesystem IO
> locks. There was a recent thread about how readahead can race with
> hole punching and other fallocate() operations because page cache
> readahead bypasses the filesystem IO locks used to serialise page
> cache invalidation.
> 
> e.g. Readahead can be directed by userspace via fadvise, so we now
> have file->f_op->fadvise() so that filesystems can lock the inode
> before calling generic_fadvise() such that page cache instantiation
> and readahead dispatch can be serialised against page cache
> invalidation. I have a patch for XFS sitting around somewhere that
> implements the ->fadvise method.
> 
> I think there are some other patches floating around to address the
> other readahead mechanisms to only be done under filesytem IO locks,
> but I haven't had time to dig into it any further. Readahead from
> page faults most definitely needs to be under the MMAPLOCK at
> least so it serialises against fallocate()...

Yes, I have patch to make madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) go through ->fadvise() as
well. I'll post it soon since the rest of the series isn't really dependent
on it.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR