On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, Yan, Zheng wrote:
> >> Short write happens when we fail to get 'Fb' cap for all pages. Why
> >> shouldn't
> >> we fall back to sync write, I think some user programs assume short write
> >> never happen unless ENOSPC. If generic_file_aio_write return and its return
> >> value shows there was a short write, I think the dirty pages have already
> >> been
> >> flushed to OSD because ceph_get_caps waits revoking 'Fb' cap to completed.
> >> So I think fall back to sync write is safe.
> >
> > Oh right, I see.
> >
> > Thinking about it more, this whole thing makes me nervous. If we go down
> > this road, at the very least we need to make sure we loop back to the
> > buffered path if the ceph_get_caps() in ceph_aio_write() races and gets
> > BUFFER|LAZYIO after all.
>
> But multiple pages write is not atomic even for local filesystem, At least
> for write through syscall and read through memory map.
Right.
In that case:
?
diff --git a/fs/ceph/file.c b/fs/ceph/file.c
index 266f6e0..311e463 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/file.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/file.c
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ static ssize_t ceph_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const
struct iovec *iov,
&ceph_sb_to_client(inode->i_sb)->client->osdc;
loff_t endoff = pos + iov->iov_len;
int got = 0;
- int ret, err, written;
+ int ret, err, written, want_buffered;
if (ceph_snap(inode) != CEPH_NOSNAP)
return -EROFS;
@@ -724,9 +724,17 @@ retry_snap:
return -ENOSPC;
__ceph_do_pending_vmtruncate(inode);
+ /*
+ * try to do a buffered write. if we don't have sufficient
+ * caps, we'll get -EAGAIN from generic_file_aio_write, or a
+ * short write if we only get caps for some pages.
+ */
+buffered_write:
if (!(iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) &&
!(inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_SYNCHRONOUS) &&
!(fi->flags & CEPH_F_SYNC)) {
+ want_buffered = 1;
+
ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
if (ret >= 0)
written = ret;
@@ -740,6 +748,8 @@ retry_snap:
}
if ((ret < 0 && ret != -EAGAIN) || pos + written >= endoff)
goto out;
+ } else {
+ want_buffered = 0;
}
dout("aio_write %p %llx.%llx %llu~%u getting caps. i_size %llu\n",
@@ -747,12 +757,20 @@ retry_snap:
(unsigned)iov->iov_len - written, inode->i_size);
ret = ceph_get_caps(ci, CEPH_CAP_FILE_WR, 0, &got, endoff);
if (ret < 0)
- goto out_put;
+ goto out;
+ if (want_buffered &&
+ (got & (CEPH_CAP_FILE_BUFFER|CEPH_CAP_FILE_LAZYIO))) {
+ dout("aio_write %p %llx.%llx %llu~%u got caps refs on %s, "
+ "dropping and retrying buffered write\n",
+ inode, ceph_vinop(inode), pos + written,
+ (unsigned)iov->iov_len - written, ceph_cap_string(got));
+ ceph_put_cap_refs(ci, got);
+ goto buffered_write;
+ }
dout("aio_write %p %llx.%llx %llu~%u got cap refs on %s\n",
inode, ceph_vinop(inode), pos + written,
(unsigned)iov->iov_len - written, ceph_cap_string(got));
-
ret = ceph_sync_write(file, iov->iov_base + written,
iov->iov_len - written, &iocb->ki_pos);
if (ret >= 0) {
@@ -763,8 +781,6 @@ retry_snap:
if (dirty)
__mark_inode_dirty(inode, dirty);
}
-
-out_put:
dout("aio_write %p %llx.%llx %llu~%u dropping cap refs on %s\n",
inode, ceph_vinop(inode), pos + written,
(unsigned)iov->iov_len - written, ceph_cap_string(got));
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