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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 2/5] fs, xfs: introduce S_IOMAP_SEALED
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>> I'm still very unhappy about the get/set flag state. What is the
>> reason you can't use/extend leases? (take a look at the fcntl
>> man page and look for Leases). A variant of the concept is what
>> the pNFS block server uses.
>
> So I think leases could potentially be extended to replace the inode
> flag. A MAP_DIRECT operation would take out a lease that is broken by
> break_layouts(). However, like the pNFS case the lease break would
> need to held off while any DMA might be in-flight. We can use an
> elevated page count as that indication as ZONE_DEVICE pages only ever
> have an elevated page count in response to get_user_pages().
>
> However, I think the only practical difference is turning an immediate
> ETXTBSY response that S_IOMAP_SEALED provides into an indefinite
> blocking wait for break_layouts() to complete. Can pNFS run
> break_layouts() in bounded time?
>
> As far I can see a lease and S_IOMAP_SEALED have the same DMA
> cancelling problem, so a lease is not better in that regard. Absent an
> overlaying protocol like pNFS, I think S_IOMAP_SEALED is cleaner
> because it fails incompatible operations outright rather than stalls
> them in break_layouts(). Were their other benefits to a lease over an
> inode flag that you had in mind for this case where the protocol is
> userspace defined? Maybe I'm thinking too small on the ways a lease
> might be extended.

At a minimum I can at least use a new lease type as an indication of
when to bail out an block-map operation with ETXTBSY, and reuse the
lease security model. That way we at least start to converge the
in-kernel lease machinery for pinning blocks with this userspace
mechanism.

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