Re: [PATCH 0/2] RFC: Fix nfs_generic_pgio page vector issues

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This survived a full day of running trinity on one system and a full day of various iozone / fio on another.

It’s good to go from my perspective.

-dros


On Aug 14, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Weston Andros Adamson <dros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patchset fixes a few issues with the creation of nfs_pageio_descriptor
> page vectors, which are passed to nfs_pgio_header structures.
> 
> These were first found by Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx> by running
> trinity, but I've since received a report of a real world usecase that
> hit a related issue: kvm with cache=none.
> 
> There are two problems that are closely related and seem to only be triggered
> by direct i/o writev()/readv() calls.
> 
> The fixes are:
>  - do not coalesce pages unless they are contiguous in file position *and*
>    within / betwen pages.
> 
>  - do not allow duplicated pages in the pagevector
> 
> 
> I'm still testing these, but I thought I'd share what I have with the list.
> 
> -dros
> 
> Weston Andros Adamson (2):
>  nfs: disallow duplicate pages in pgio page vectors
>  nfs: can_coalesce_requests must enforce contiguity
> 
> fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.5.2 (Apple Git-48)
> 

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