Re: vfs/xfs: directio updates to ease COW handling V2

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"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:43:02PM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> Hi, Christoph,
>> 
>> Can you explain a bit what you mean by easing COW handling?  Whenever I
>> see COW referenced near DIO, my mind always turns to g_u_p vs. fork.
>
> Just to clarify, I'm talking about copy on write for disk blocks, not for
> memory pages.
>
> Basically, XFS implements (disk block) copy on write for (perfectly block
> aligned) directio writes by allocating a set of replacement blocks, mapping the
> dio writes to the new blocks, and playing a punch/remap trick to map the new
> blocks into the file at the appropriate offset.
>
> If the write fails then we don't want do the remap, so the dio_complete handler
> has to know whether or not the IO succeeded, hence the new parameter.
> Furthermore, if the write succeeds but the remap fails, we also want to be able
> to report that to userspace, hence the change of return value from void to int.
>
> (If the dio write isn't block aligned, we fall back to the page cache.)
>
> Hope that helps,

Eric said the magic word: reflink.  I think I've got it now.

Thanks!
Jeff
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