Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:40:23AM -0500, Milosz Tanski wrote:
>> This patcheset introduces an ability to perform a non-blocking read from
>> regular files in buffered IO mode. This works by only for those filesystems
>> that have data in the page cache.
>>
>> It does this by introducing new syscalls new syscalls preadv2/pwritev2. These
>> new syscalls behave like the network sendmsg, recvmsg syscalls that accept an
>> extra flag argument (RWF_NONBLOCK).
>>
>> It's a very common patern today (samba, libuv, etc..) use a large threadpool to
>> perform buffered IO operations. They submit the work form another thread
>> that performs network IO and epoll or other threads that perform CPU work. This
>> leads to increased latency for processing, esp. in the case of data that's
>> already cached in the page cache.
>>
>> With the new interface the applications will now be able to fetch the data in
>> their network / cpu bound thread(s) and only defer to a threadpool if it's not
>> there. In our own application (VLDB) we've observed a decrease in latency for
>> "fast" request by avoiding unnecessary queuing and having to swap out current
>> tasks in IO bound work threads.
>
> Can you write a test (or set of) for fstests that exercises this new
> functionality? I'm not worried about performance, just
> correctness....
On the subject of testing, I added support to trinity (attached,
untested). That did raise one question. Do we expect applications to
#include <linux/fs.h> to get the RWF_NONBLOCK definition?
Cheers,
Jeff
diff --git a/include/syscalls-i386.h b/include/syscalls-i386.h
index 767be6e..3125064 100644
--- a/include/syscalls-i386.h
+++ b/include/syscalls-i386.h
@@ -365,4 +365,6 @@ struct syscalltable syscalls_i386[] = {
{ .entry = &syscall_getrandom },
{ .entry = &syscall_memfd_create },
{ .entry = &syscall_bpf },
+ { .entry = &syscall_preadv2 },
+ { .entry = &syscall_pwritev2 },
};
diff --git a/include/syscalls-x86_64.h b/include/syscalls-x86_64.h
index cb609ad..8d32571 100644
--- a/include/syscalls-x86_64.h
+++ b/include/syscalls-x86_64.h
@@ -329,4 +329,6 @@ struct syscalltable syscalls_x86_64[] = {
{ .entry = &syscall_memfd_create },
{ .entry = &syscall_kexec_file_load },
{ .entry = &syscall_bpf },
+ { .entry = &syscall_preadv2 },
+ { .entry = &syscall_pwritev2 },
};
diff --git a/syscalls/read.c b/syscalls/read.c
index e0948a2..adbf146 100644
--- a/syscalls/read.c
+++ b/syscalls/read.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
#include "arch.h"
#include "maps.h"
#include "random.h"
@@ -94,3 +95,29 @@ struct syscallentry syscall_preadv = {
.arg5name = "pos_h",
.flags = NEED_ALARM,
};
+
+/*
+ * SYSCALL_DEFINE6(preadv2, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
+ unsigned long, vlen, unsigned long, pos_l, unsigned long, pos_h,
+ int, flags)
+ */
+
+struct syscallentry syscall_preadv2 = {
+ .name = "preadv2",
+ .num_args = 5,
+ .arg1name = "fd",
+ .arg1type = ARG_FD,
+ .arg2name = "vec",
+ .arg2type = ARG_IOVEC,
+ .arg3name = "vlen",
+ .arg3type = ARG_IOVECLEN,
+ .arg4name = "pos_l",
+ .arg5name = "pos_h",
+ .arg6name = "flags",
+ .arg6type = ARG_OP,
+ .arg6list = {
+ .num = 1,
+ .values = { RWF_NONBLOCK, },
+ },
+ .flags = NEED_ALARM,
+};
diff --git a/syscalls/syscalls.h b/syscalls/syscalls.h
index 5a7748b..04400dd 100644
--- a/syscalls/syscalls.h
+++ b/syscalls/syscalls.h
@@ -375,5 +375,7 @@ extern struct syscallentry syscall_seccomp;
extern struct syscallentry syscall_memfd_create;
extern struct syscallentry syscall_kexec_file_load;
extern struct syscallentry syscall_bpf;
+extern struct syscallentry syscall_preadv2;
+extern struct syscallentry syscall_pwritev2;
unsigned int random_fcntl_setfl_flags(void);
diff --git a/syscalls/write.c b/syscalls/write.c
index f37e760..4218ccc 100644
--- a/syscalls/write.c
+++ b/syscalls/write.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
* SYSCALL_DEFINE3(write, unsigned int, fd, const char __user *, buf, size_t, count)
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
#include "arch.h" // page_size
#include "maps.h"
#include "random.h"
@@ -95,3 +96,30 @@ struct syscallentry syscall_pwritev = {
.arg5name = "pos_h",
.flags = NEED_ALARM,
};
+
+
+/*
+ * SYSCALL_DEFINE6(pwritev2, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
+ unsigned long, vlen, unsigned long, pos_l, unsigned long, pos_h,
+ int, flags)
+ */
+
+struct syscallentry syscall_pwritev2 = {
+ .name = "pwritev2",
+ .num_args = 6,
+ .arg1name = "fd",
+ .arg1type = ARG_FD,
+ .arg2name = "vec",
+ .arg2type = ARG_IOVEC,
+ .arg3name = "vlen",
+ .arg3type = ARG_IOVECLEN,
+ .arg4name = "pos_l",
+ .arg5name = "pos_h",
+ .arg6name = "flags",
+ .arg6type = ARG_OP,
+ .arg6list = {
+ .num = 1,
+ .values = { RWF_NONBLOCK, },
+ },
+ .flags = NEED_ALARM,
+};
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