Commit 0cefb29e authored Apr 16, 2015 by Dave Chinner Committed by Dave Chinner Apr 16, 2015

xfs: using generic_file_direct_write() is unnecessary



generic_file_direct_write() does all sorts of things to make DIO
work "sorta ok" with mixed buffered IO workloads. We already do
most of this work in xfs_file_aio_dio_write() because of the locking
requirements, so there's only a couple of things it does for us.

The first thing is that it does a page cache invalidation after the
->direct_IO callout. This can easily be added to the XFS code.

The second thing it does is that if data was written, it updates the
iov_iter structure to reflect the data written, and then does EOF
size updates if necessary. For XFS, these EOF size updates are now
not necessary, as we do them safely and race-free in IO completion
context. That leaves just the iov_iter update, and that's also moved
to the XFS code.

Therefore we don't need to call generic_file_direct_write() and in
doing so remove redundant buffered writeback and page cache
invalidation calls from the DIO submission path. We also remove a
racy EOF size update, and make the DIO submission code in XFS much
easier to follow. Wins all round, really.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

parent 40c63fbc

fs/xfs/xfs_file.c

+20 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -659,6 +659,8 @@ xfs_file_dio_aio_write(
		int iolock;
		size_t count = iov_iter_count(from);
		loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos;
		loff_t end;
		struct iov_iter data;
		struct xfs_buftarg *target = XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE(ip) ?
		mp->m_rtdev_targp : mp->m_ddev_targp;

		@@ -698,10 +700,11 @@ xfs_file_dio_aio_write(
		if (ret)
		goto out;
		iov_iter_truncate(from, count);
		end = pos + count - 1;

		if (mapping->nrpages) {
		ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(VFS_I(ip)->i_mapping,
		pos, pos + count - 1);
		pos, end);
		if (ret)
		goto out;
		/*
		@@ -711,7 +714,7 @@ xfs_file_dio_aio_write(
		*/
		ret = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(VFS_I(ip)->i_mapping,
		pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT,
		(pos + count - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
		end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
		WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
		ret = 0;
		}
		@@ -728,8 +731,22 @@ xfs_file_dio_aio_write(
		}

		trace_xfs_file_direct_write(ip, count, iocb->ki_pos, 0);
		ret = generic_file_direct_write(iocb, from, pos);

		data = *from;
		ret = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(WRITE, iocb, &data, pos);

		/* see generic_file_direct_write() for why this is necessary */
		if (mapping->nrpages) {
		invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
		pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT,
		end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
		}

		if (ret > 0) {
		pos += ret;
		iov_iter_advance(from, ret);
		iocb->ki_pos = pos;
		}
		out:
		xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, iolock);

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