linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 40/40] 9p: Use netfslib read/write

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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2024 12:08:18 +0000
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
    Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
    Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
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    Paulo Alcantara <pc@...guebit.com>,
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    Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...nel.org>,
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    Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 40/40] 9p: Use netfslib read/write_iter

Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org> wrote:

> I've also manually confirmed one of the big improvements I'd been asking
> for (that writes in cached modes, which used to be chunked to 4k, and
> are now properly aggregated, so e.g 'dd bs=1M count=1' will properly
> issue a minimal number of TWRITE calls capped by msize) -- this is
> great!

After the merge window, we can look at enabling multipage folios for 9p.

> I've noticed we don't cache xattrs are all,

I haven't given this any particular thought.  We could attach them to the
cachefile object as xattrs, but it means you have to do two xattr lookups in
the event of a cache miss.

At this point, I'm going to ask Christian to stack the extra patch on his
branch rather than folding it down and retagging.

> I've got a couple of questions below, but:

I'll address those separately.

> Tested-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
> Acked-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>

Thanks!

David