[XFS] Delay direct I/O completion to a workqueue This is nessecary
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:22:52 +0000 (08:22 +1000)
committerNathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:22:52 +0000 (08:22 +1000)
because aio+dio completions may happen from irq context but we need
process context for converting unwritten extents.  We also queue regular
direct I/O completions to workqueue for regularity, there's only one
queue_work call per syscall.

SGI-PV: 934766
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:196857a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c

index ed98c7a..2add9a8 100644 (file)
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ xfs_destroy_ioend(
 
 /*
  * Issue transactions to convert a buffer range from unwritten
- * to written extents (buffered IO).
+ * to written extents.
  */
 STATIC void
 xfs_end_bio_unwritten(
@@ -191,29 +191,6 @@ linvfs_unwritten_done(
        end_buffer_async_write(bh, uptodate);
 }
 
-/*
- * Issue transactions to convert a buffer range from unwritten
- * to written extents (direct IO).
- */
-STATIC void
-linvfs_unwritten_convert_direct(
-       struct kiocb    *iocb,
-       loff_t          offset,
-       ssize_t         size,
-       void            *private)
-{
-       struct inode    *inode = iocb->ki_filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
-       ASSERT(!private || inode == (struct inode *)private);
-
-       /* private indicates an unwritten extent lay beneath this IO */
-       if (private && size > 0) {
-               vnode_t *vp = LINVFS_GET_VP(inode);
-               int     error;
-
-               VOP_BMAP(vp, offset, size, BMAPI_UNWRITTEN, NULL, NULL, error);
-       }
-}
-
 STATIC int
 xfs_map_blocks(
        struct inode            *inode,
@@ -1045,6 +1022,44 @@ linvfs_get_blocks_direct(
                                        create, 1, BMAPI_WRITE|BMAPI_DIRECT);
 }
 
+STATIC void
+linvfs_end_io_direct(
+       struct kiocb    *iocb,
+       loff_t          offset,
+       ssize_t         size,
+       void            *private)
+{
+       xfs_ioend_t     *ioend = iocb->private;
+
+       /*
+        * Non-NULL private data means we need to issue a transaction to
+        * convert a range from unwritten to written extents.  This needs
+        * to happen from process contect but aio+dio I/O completion
+        * happens from irq context so we need to defer it to a workqueue.
+        * This is not nessecary for synchronous direct I/O, but we do
+        * it anyway to keep the code uniform and simpler.
+        *
+        * The core direct I/O code might be changed to always call the
+        * completion handler in the future, in which case all this can
+        * go away.
+        */
+       if (private && size > 0) {
+               ioend->io_offset = offset;
+               ioend->io_size = size;
+               xfs_finish_ioend(ioend);
+       } else {
+               ASSERT(size >= 0);
+               xfs_destroy_ioend(ioend);
+       }
+
+       /*
+        * blockdev_direct_IO can return an error even afer the I/O
+        * completion handler was called.  Thus we need to protect
+        * against double-freeing.
+        */
+       iocb->private = NULL;
+}
+
 STATIC ssize_t
 linvfs_direct_IO(
        int                     rw,
@@ -1059,16 +1074,23 @@ linvfs_direct_IO(
        xfs_iomap_t     iomap;
        int             maps = 1;
        int             error;
+       ssize_t         ret;
 
        VOP_BMAP(vp, offset, 0, BMAPI_DEVICE, &iomap, &maps, error);
        if (error)
                return -error;
 
-       return blockdev_direct_IO_own_locking(rw, iocb, inode,
+       iocb->private = xfs_alloc_ioend(inode);
+
+       ret = blockdev_direct_IO_own_locking(rw, iocb, inode,
                iomap.iomap_target->pbr_bdev,
                iov, offset, nr_segs,
                linvfs_get_blocks_direct,
-               linvfs_unwritten_convert_direct);
+               linvfs_end_io_direct);
+
+       if (unlikely(ret <= 0 && iocb->private))
+               xfs_destroy_ioend(iocb->private);
+       return ret;
 }
 
 
index acab58c..3b5fabe 100644 (file)
@@ -660,9 +660,6 @@ xfs_write(
                        (xip->i_d.di_flags & XFS_DIFLAG_REALTIME) ?
                                mp->m_rtdev_targp : mp->m_ddev_targp;
 
-               if (ioflags & IO_ISAIO)
-                       return XFS_ERROR(-ENOSYS);
-
                if ((pos & target->pbr_smask) || (count & target->pbr_smask))
                        return XFS_ERROR(-EINVAL);