linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4] ceph: use 'copy-from2' operation in copy_file

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Date:   Thu, 9 Jan 2020 15:53:28 +0100
From:   Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
To:     Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.com>
Cc:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, Sage Weil <sage@...hat.com>,
        "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@...hat.com>,
        Gregory Farnum <gfarnum@...hat.com>,
        Ceph Development <ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4] ceph: use 'copy-from2' operation in copy_file_range

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 3:30 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:06:17AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 10:03 +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > > Instead of using the 'copy-from' operation, switch copy_file_range to the
> > > new 'copy-from2' operation, which allows to send the truncate_seq and
> > > truncate_size parameters.
> > >
> > > If an OSD does not support the 'copy-from2' operation it will return
> > > -EOPNOTSUPP.  In that case, the kernel client will stop trying to do
> > > remote object copies for this fs client and will always use the generic
> > > VFS copy_file_range.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.com>
> > > ---
> > > Hi Jeff,
> > >
> > > This is a follow-up to the discussion in [1].  Since PR [2] has been
> > > merged, it's now time to change the kernel client to use the new
> > > 'copy-from2'.  And that's what this patch does.
> > >
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191118120935.7013-1-lhenriques@suse.com/
> > > [2] https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/31728
> > >
> > >  fs/ceph/file.c                  | 13 ++++++++++++-
> > >  fs/ceph/super.c                 |  1 +
> > >  fs/ceph/super.h                 |  3 +++
> > >  include/linux/ceph/osd_client.h |  1 +
> > >  include/linux/ceph/rados.h      |  2 ++
> > >  net/ceph/osd_client.c           | 18 ++++++++++++------
> > >  6 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/ceph/file.c b/fs/ceph/file.c
> > > index 11929d2bb594..1e6cdf2dfe90 100644
> > > --- a/fs/ceph/file.c
> > > +++ b/fs/ceph/file.c
> > > @@ -1974,6 +1974,10 @@ static ssize_t __ceph_copy_file_range(struct file *src_file, loff_t src_off,
> > >     if (ceph_test_mount_opt(src_fsc, NOCOPYFROM))
> > >             return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > >
> > > +   /* Do the OSDs support the 'copy-from2' operation? */
> > > +   if (!src_fsc->have_copy_from2)
> > > +           return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > > +
> > >     /*
> > >      * Striped file layouts require that we copy partial objects, but the
> > >      * OSD copy-from operation only supports full-object copies.  Limit
> > > @@ -2101,8 +2105,15 @@ static ssize_t __ceph_copy_file_range(struct file *src_file, loff_t src_off,
> > >                     CEPH_OSD_OP_FLAG_FADVISE_NOCACHE,
> > >                     &dst_oid, &dst_oloc,
> > >                     CEPH_OSD_OP_FLAG_FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL |
> > > -                   CEPH_OSD_OP_FLAG_FADVISE_DONTNEED, 0);
> > > +                   CEPH_OSD_OP_FLAG_FADVISE_DONTNEED,
> > > +                   dst_ci->i_truncate_seq, dst_ci->i_truncate_size,
> > > +                   CEPH_OSD_COPY_FROM_FLAG_TRUNCATE_SEQ);
> > >             if (err) {
> > > +                   if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
> > > +                           src_fsc->have_copy_from2 = false;
> > > +                           pr_notice("OSDs don't support 'copy-from2'; "
> > > +                                     "disabling copy_file_range\n");
> > > +                   }
> > >                     dout("ceph_osdc_copy_from returned %d\n", err);
> > >                     if (!ret)
> > >                             ret = err;
> >
> > The patch itself looks fine to me. I'll not merge yet, since you sent it
> > as an RFC, but I don't have any objection to it at first glance.
>
> I was going to drop the RFC, but then at the last minute decided to leave.
>
> >                                                                    The
> > only other comment I'd make is that you should probably split this into
> > two patches -- one for the libceph changes and one for cephfs.
>
> Hmm... TBH I didn't thought about that, but since the libceph patch would
> be changing its API (ceph_osdc_copy_from would have 2 extra parameters), I
> don't think that's a good idea.  Bisection would be broken between these 2
> patches.

Yeah, no need to split.

Thanks,

                Ilya