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SubjectRE: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Non-blockling buffered fs read (page cache only)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Dilger
> Sent: Monday, 15 September, 2014 4:34 PM
> To: Milosz Tanski
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Christoph Hellwig; linux-
> fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; linux-aio@kvack.org; Mel Gorman; Volker Lendecke;
> Tejun Heo; Jeff Moyer
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Non-blockling buffered fs read (page cache only)
>
> On Sep 15, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com> wrote:
>
> > This patcheset introduces an ability to perform a non-blocking read
> > from regular files in buffered IO mode. This works by only for those
> > filesystems that have data in the page cache.
> >
> > It does this by introducing new syscalls new syscalls readv2/writev2
> > and preadv2/pwritev2. These new syscalls behave like the network sendmsg,
> > recvmsg syscalls that accept an extra flag argument (O_NONBLOCK).
>
> It's too bad that we are introducing yet another new read/write
> syscall pair that only allow IO into discontiguous memory regions,
> but do not allow a single call to access discontiguous file regions
> (i.e. specify a separate file offset for each iov).
>
> Adding syscalls similar to preadv/pwritev() that could take a iovec
> that specified the file offset+length in addition to the memory address
> would allow efficient scatter-gather IO in a single syscall. While
> that is less critical for local filesystems with small syscall latency,
> it is more important for network filesystems, or in the case of
> NVRAM-backed filesystems.
>
> Cheers, Andreas

That sounds like the proposed WRITE SCATTERED/READ GATHERED
commands for SCSI (where are related to, but not necessarily
tied to, atomic writes). We discussed them a bit at
LSF-MM 2013 - see http://lwn.net/Articles/548116/.


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Rob Elliott HP Server Storage







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