From: "Andreas Grünbacher" <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>,
Dave Chinner <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
Linux FS-devel Mailing List <[email protected]>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>,
Linux-MM <[email protected]>,
Andrew Morton <[email protected]>,
Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/15] mm: allow read-ahead with IOCB_NOWAIT set
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 13:38:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHpGcMJsrQXX4OQe6MqjyTt8BOLZw-y1ixdk76p_DsZONyEJcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Am Mi., 24. Juni 2020 um 18:48 Uhr schrieb Jens Axboe <[email protected]>:
>
> On 6/24/20 10:41 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 09:35:19AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> On 6/24/20 9:00 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>> On 6/23/20 7:46 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >>>> I'd be quite happy to add a gfp_t to struct readahead_control.
> >>>> The other thing I've been looking into for other reasons is adding
> >>>> a memalloc_nowait_{save,restore}, which would avoid passing down
> >>>> the gfp_t.
> >>>
> >>> That was my first thought, having the memalloc_foo_save/restore for
> >>> this. I don't think adding a gfp_t to readahead_control is going
> >>> to be super useful, seems like the kind of thing that should be
> >>> non-blocking by default.
> >>
> >> We're already doing memalloc_nofs_save/restore in
> >> page_cache_readahead_unbounded(), so I think all we need is to just do a
> >> noio dance in generic_file_buffered_read() and that should be enough.
> >
> > I think we can still sleep though, right? I was thinking more
> > like this:
> >
> > http://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux.git/shortlog/refs/heads/memalloc
>
> Yeah, that's probably better. How do we want to handle this? I've already
> got the other bits queued up. I can either add them to the series, or
> pull a branch that'll go into Linus as well.
Also note my conflicting patch that introduces a IOCB_NOIO flag for
fixing a gfs2 regression:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/[email protected]/
Thanks,
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-07 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-18 14:43 Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 01/15] block: provide plug based way of signaling forced no-wait semantics Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 02/15] io_uring: always plug for any number of IOs Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 03/15] io_uring: catch -EIO from buffered issue request failure Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 04/15] io_uring: re-issue block requests that failed because of resources Jens Axboe
2020-06-19 14:12 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-19 14:22 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-19 14:30 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-19 14:36 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 05/15] mm: allow read-ahead with IOCB_NOWAIT set Jens Axboe
2020-06-24 1:02 ` Dave Chinner
2020-06-24 1:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-24 15:00 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-24 15:35 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-24 16:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-24 16:44 ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-07 11:38 ` Andreas Grünbacher [this message]
2020-07-07 14:31 ` Jens Axboe
2020-08-10 22:56 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-10 23:03 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-24 4:38 ` Dave Chinner
2020-06-24 15:01 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 06/15] mm: abstract out wake_page_match() from wake_page_function() Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 07/15] mm: add support for async page locking Jens Axboe
2020-07-07 11:32 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2020-07-07 14:32 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 08/15] mm: support async buffered reads in generic_file_buffered_read() Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 09/15] fs: add FMODE_BUF_RASYNC Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 10/15] block: flag block devices as supporting IOCB_WAITQ Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 11/15] xfs: flag files as supporting buffered async reads Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 12/15] btrfs: " Jens Axboe
2020-06-19 11:11 ` David Sterba
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 13/15] ext4: flag " Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 14/15] mm: add kiocb_wait_page_queue_init() helper Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:43 ` [PATCH 15/15] io_uring: support true async buffered reads, if file provides it Jens Axboe
2020-06-23 12:39 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-23 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-18 14:45 ` [PATCHSET v7 0/12] Add support for async buffered reads Jens Axboe
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