On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 3:57 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/2/22 8:48 AM, Filipe Manana wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 12:01 AM Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> For NOWAIT IOCB's we'll need a way to tell search to not wait on locks
> >> or anything. Accomplish this by adding a path->nowait flag that will
> >> use trylocks and skip reading of metadata, returning -EWOULDBLOCK in
> >> either of these cases. For now we only need this for reads, so only the
> >> read side is handled. Add an ASSERT() to catch anybody trying to use
> >> this for writes so they know they'll have to implement the write side.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >> fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 1 +
> >> fs/btrfs/locking.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> fs/btrfs/locking.h | 1 +
> >> 4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
> >> index ebfa35fe1c38..052c768b2297 100644
> >> --- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
> >> +++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
> >> @@ -1447,6 +1447,11 @@ read_block_for_search(struct btrfs_root *root, struct btrfs_path *p,
> >> return 0;
> >> }
> >>
> >> + if (p->nowait) {
> >> + free_extent_buffer(tmp);
> >> + return -EWOULDBLOCK;
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> if (unlock_up)
> >> btrfs_unlock_up_safe(p, level + 1);
> >>
> >> @@ -1467,6 +1472,8 @@ read_block_for_search(struct btrfs_root *root, struct btrfs_path *p,
> >> ret = -EAGAIN;
> >>
> >> goto out;
> >> + } else if (p->nowait) {
> >> + return -EWOULDBLOCK;
> >> }
> >>
> >> if (unlock_up) {
> >> @@ -1634,7 +1641,13 @@ static struct extent_buffer *btrfs_search_slot_get_root(struct btrfs_root *root,
> >> * We don't know the level of the root node until we actually
> >> * have it read locked
> >> */
> >> - b = btrfs_read_lock_root_node(root);
> >> + if (p->nowait) {
> >> + b = btrfs_try_read_lock_root_node(root);
> >> + if (IS_ERR(b))
> >> + return b;
> >> + } else {
> >> + b = btrfs_read_lock_root_node(root);
> >> + }
> >> level = btrfs_header_level(b);
> >> if (level > write_lock_level)
> >> goto out;
> >> @@ -1910,6 +1923,13 @@ int btrfs_search_slot(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, struct btrfs_root *root,
> >> WARN_ON(p->nodes[0] != NULL);
> >> BUG_ON(!cow && ins_len);
> >>
> >> + /*
> >> + * For now only allow nowait for read only operations. There's no
> >> + * strict reason why we can't, we just only need it for reads so I'm
> >> + * only implementing it for reads right now.
> >> + */
> >> + ASSERT(!p->nowait || !cow);
> >> +
> >> if (ins_len < 0) {
> >> lowest_unlock = 2;
> >>
> >> @@ -1936,7 +1956,12 @@ int btrfs_search_slot(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, struct btrfs_root *root,
> >>
> >> if (p->need_commit_sem) {
> >> ASSERT(p->search_commit_root);
> >> - down_read(&fs_info->commit_root_sem);
> >> + if (p->nowait) {
> >> + if (!down_read_trylock(&fs_info->commit_root_sem))
> >> + return -EAGAIN;
> >
> > Why EAGAIN here and everywhere else EWOULDBLOCK? See below.
>
> Is EWOULDBLOCK ever different from EAGAIN? But it should be used
> consistently, EAGAIN would be the return of choice for that.
Oh right, EWOULDBLOCK is defined as EAGAIN, same values.
It would be best to use the same everywhere, avoiding confusion...
>
> --
> Jens Axboe
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Filipe David Manana,
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”
