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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] bio: Direct IO: convert to pin_user_pages_fast()
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On 8/24/20 7:07 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 02:54:28AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 09:20:54PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>>
>>> Direct IO behavior:
>>>
>>> ITER_IOVEC:
>>> pin_user_pages_fast();
>>> break;
>>>
>>> ITER_KVEC: // already elevated page refcount, leave alone
>>> ITER_BVEC: // already elevated page refcount, leave alone
>>> ITER_PIPE: // just, no :)
>>
>> Why? What's wrong with splice to O_DIRECT file?
>
> Sorry - s/to/from/, obviously.
>
> To spell it out: consider generic_file_splice_read() behaviour when
> the source had been opened with O_DIRECT; you will get a call of
> ->read_iter() into ITER_PIPE destination. And it bloody well
> will hit iov_iter_get_pages() on common filesystems, to pick the
> pages we want to read into.
>
> So... what's wrong with having that "pin" primitive making sure
> the pages are there and referenced by the pipe?
>

(our emails crossed) OK, yes, let me hook that up. I was just unaware
of that flow, I'll go off and figure it out.

Thanks for looking at this!

thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

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