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From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] fs: add IOCB flags related to passing back dio completions
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 07:01:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>  /* can use bio alloc cache */
>  #define IOCB_ALLOC_CACHE	(1 << 21)
> +/*
> + * IOCB_DIO_DEFER can be set by the iocb owner, to indicate that the
> + * iocb completion can be passed back to the owner for execution from a safe
> + * context rather than needing to be punted through a workqueue. If this
> + * flag is set, the completion handling may set iocb->dio_complete to a
> + * handler, which the issuer will then call from task context to complete
> + * the processing of the iocb. iocb->private should then also be set to
> + * the argument being passed to this handler.

Can you add an explanation when it is safe/destirable to do the deferred
completion?  As of the last patch we seem to avoid anything that does
I/O or transaction commits, but we'd still allow blocking operations
like mutexes used in the zonefs completion handler.  We need to catch
this so future usuers know what to do.

Similarly on the iomap side I think we need clear documentation for
what context ->end_io can be called in now.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-20  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-19 19:54 [PATCHSET v3 0/6] Improve async iomap DIO performance Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] iomap: cleanup up iomap_dio_bio_end_io() Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:50   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:13     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 2/6] iomap: add IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:19     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 3/6] iomap: treat a write through cache the same as FUA Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:23     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] fs: add IOCB flags related to passing back dio completions Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  5:01   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-07-20 16:25     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 5/6] io_uring/rw: add write support for IOCB_DIO_DEFER Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] iomap: support IOCB_DIO_DEFER Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:27     ` Jens Axboe

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