On 2017/12/19 5:54, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:06:21 +0000 Changwei Ge <ge.chang...@h3c.com> wrote:
>
>> Before ocfs2 supporting allocating clusters while doing append-dio, all
>> append
>> dio will fall back to buffer io to allocate clusters firstly. Also, when it
>> steps on a file hole, it will fall back to buffer io, too. But for current
>> code, writing to file hole will leverage dio to allocate clusters. This is
>> not
>> right, since whether append-io is enabled tells the capability whether ocfs2
>> can
>> allocate space while doing dio.
>> So introduce file hole check function back into ocfs2.
>> Once ocfs2 is doing dio upon a file hole with append-dio disabled, it will
>> fall
>> back to buffer IO to allocate clusters.
>>
>
> hm, that's a bit hard to understand. Hopefully reviewers will know
> what's going on ;)
Hi Andrew,
Sorry for mess up the changelog.
I will enrich the changelog and elaborate my intention further in the next
version
of this patch.
>
>> --- a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
>> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
>> @@ -2414,6 +2414,44 @@ static int ocfs2_dio_end_io(struct kiocb *iocb,
>> return ret;
>> }
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Will look for holes and unwritten extents in the range starting at
>> + * pos for count bytes (inclusive).
>> + */
>> +static int ocfs2_check_range_for_holes(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos,
>> + size_t count)
>> +{
>> + int ret = 0;
>> + unsigned int extent_flags;
>> + u32 cpos, clusters, extent_len, phys_cpos;
>> + struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
>> +
>> + cpos = pos >> OCFS2_SB(sb)->s_clustersize_bits;
>> + clusters = ocfs2_clusters_for_bytes(sb, pos + count) - cpos;
>> +
>> + while (clusters) {
>> + ret = ocfs2_get_clusters(inode, cpos, &phys_cpos, &extent_len,
>> + &extent_flags);
>> + if (ret < 0) {
>> + mlog_errno(ret);
>> + goto out;
>> + }
>> +
>> + if (phys_cpos == 0 || (extent_flags & OCFS2_EXT_UNWRITTEN)) {
>> + ret = 1;
>> + break;
>> + }
>> +
>> + if (extent_len > clusters)
>> + extent_len = clusters;
>> +
>> + clusters -= extent_len;
>> + cpos += extent_len;
>> + }
>> +out:
>> + return ret;
>> +}
>
> A few thoughts:
>
> - a function which does "check_foo" isn't well named. Because the
> reader cannot determine whether the return value means "foo is true"
> or "foo is false".
Very true.
>
> So a better name for this function is ocfs2_range_has_holes(), so
> the reader immediately understand what its return value *means".
>
> Also a bool return value is more logical.
I prefer int value.
It's my fault here since I didn't check the return value for other exception
scenario.
>
> - Mixing "goto out" with "break" as above is a bit odd.
Agree.
>
> So...
>
>
> ---
> a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c~ocfs2-fall-back-to-buffer-io-when-append-dio-is-disabled-with-file-hole-existing-fix
> +++ a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
> @@ -2469,10 +2469,9 @@ static int ocfs2_dio_end_io(struct kiocb
> * Will look for holes and unwritten extents in the range starting at
> * pos for count bytes (inclusive).
> */
> -static int ocfs2_check_range_for_holes(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos,
> - size_t count)
> +static bool ocfs2_range_has_holes(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, size_t
> count)
> {
> - int ret = 0;
> + bool ret = false;
> unsigned int extent_flags;
> u32 cpos, clusters, extent_len, phys_cpos;
> struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
> @@ -2489,8 +2488,8 @@ static int ocfs2_check_range_for_holes(s
> }
>
> if (phys_cpos == 0 || (extent_flags & OCFS2_EXT_UNWRITTEN)) {
> - ret = 1;
> - break;
> + ret = true;
> + goto out;
> }
Ok, I will take this into account.
Thanks,
Changwei
>
> if (extent_len > clusters)
> _
>
>
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