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From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>,
	Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>,
	Bernd Schubert <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: add FMODE_DIO_PARALLEL_WRITE flag
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:54:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230414153612.GB360881@frogsfrogsfrogs>

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 08:36:12AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> IIUC uring wants to avoid the situation where someone sends 300 writes
> to the same file, all of which end up in background workers, and all of
> which then contend on exclusive i_rwsem.  Hence it has some hashing
> scheme that executes io requests serially if they hash to the same value
> (which iirc is the inode number?) to prevent resource waste.
> 
> This flag turns off that hashing behavior on the assumption that each of
> those 300 writes won't serialize on the other 299 writes, hence it's ok
> to start up 300 workers.
> 
> (apologies for precoffee garbled response)

It might be useful if someone (Jens?) could clearly document the
assumptions for this flag.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-16  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-07 17:20 [PATCHSET for-next 0/2] Flag file systems as supporting parallel dio writes Jens Axboe
2023-03-07 17:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs: add FMODE_DIO_PARALLEL_WRITE flag Jens Axboe
2023-04-12 13:40   ` Bernd Schubert
2023-04-12 13:43     ` Bernd Schubert
2023-04-13  7:40     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-04-13  9:25       ` Bernd Schubert
2023-04-14  5:11       ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-04-14 15:36         ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-04-15 13:15           ` Jens Axboe
2023-04-18 12:42             ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-04-18 12:55               ` Bernd Schubert
2023-04-18 22:13                 ` Dave Chinner
2023-04-19  1:28                   ` Jens Axboe
2023-04-16  5:54           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-04-19  1:29             ` Jens Axboe
2023-03-07 17:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] io_uring: avoid hashing O_DIRECT writes if the filesystem doesn't need it Jens Axboe
2023-03-15 17:40 ` [PATCHSET for-next 0/2] Flag file systems as supporting parallel dio writes Jens Axboe
2023-03-16  4:29   ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-03-17  2:53     ` Jens Axboe
2023-04-03 12:24 ` Christian Brauner

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