Re: [RFC] extending splice for copy offloading

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On 09/30/2013 06:31 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
Here's an example "cp" app using direct splice (and without fallback to
non-splice, which is obviously required unless the kernel is known to support
direct splice).

Untested, but trivial enough...

The important part is, I think, that the app must not assume that the kernel can
complete the request in one go.

Thanks,
Miklos

----
#define _GNU_SOURCE

#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <err.h>

#ifndef SPLICE_F_DIRECT
#define SPLICE_F_DIRECT        (0x10)  /* neither splice fd is a pipe */
#endif

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	struct stat stbuf;
	int in_fd;
	int out_fd;
	int res;
	off_t off;

off_t off = 0;


	if (argc != 3)
		errx(1, "usage: %s from to", argv[0]);

	in_fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
	if (in_fd == -1)
		err(1, "opening %s", argv[1]);

	res = fstat(in_fd, &stbuf);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "fstat");

	out_fd = open(argv[2], O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, stbuf.st_mode);
	if (out_fd == -1)
		err(1, "opening %s", argv[2]);

	do {
		off_t in_off = off, out_off = off;
		ssize_t rres;

		rres = splice(in_fd, &in_off, out_fd, &out_off, SSIZE_MAX,
			     SPLICE_F_DIRECT);
		if (rres == -1)
			err(1, "splice");
		if (rres == 0)
			break;

		off += rres;
	} while (off < stbuf.st_size);

	res = close(in_fd);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "close");

	res = fsync(out_fd);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "fsync");

	res = close(out_fd);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "close");

	return 0;
}


It would be nice if there would be way if the file system would get a hint that the target file is supposed to be copy of another file. That way distributed file systems could also create the target-file with the correct meta-information (same storage targets as in-file has). Well, if we cannot agree on that, file system with a custom protocol at least can detect from 0 to SSIZE_MAX and then reset metadata. I'm not sure if this would work for pNFS, though.


Bernd



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