Re: [PATCH] nfs: add support for splice writes

From: Suresh Jayaraman
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 02:42:34 EST


Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Suresh Jayaraman (sjayaraman@xxxxxxx) wrote:
>> This patch attempts to add splice writes support. In essence, it just
>> calls generic_file_splice_write() after doing a little sanity check.
>> This would allow LTTng users that are using NFS to store trace data.
>> There could be more applications that could be benefitted too.
>>
>> I have tested this using the Jens' test program and have found no
>> real issues. The test program is inlined below:
>>
>
> There is just a small checkpatch nit that I'll fix directly in place in
> the LTTng tree.
>
> WARNING: %Ld/%Lu are not-standard C, use %lld/%llu
> #93: FILE: fs/nfs/file.c:564:
> + dprintk("NFS splice_write(%s/%s, %lu@%Lu)\n",
>
> total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 42 lines checked
>

Yes, I noticed it. There are quite a few places in nfs code where we
happened to use that (that doesn't imply that it shouldn't be fixed), so
I thought it's OK.

> That's great ! I'll pull it in the LTTng tree so my users can try it.
> They currently cannot write LTTng traces to NFS mounts anyway.

Yes, please report the test results. Would appreciate it very much.


Thanks,

>>
>> diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
>> index 90f292b..13d6a00 100644
>> --- a/fs/nfs/file.c
>> +++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
>> @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ static ssize_t nfs_file_splice_read(struct file *filp, loff_t *ppos,
>> size_t count, unsigned int flags);
>> static ssize_t nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
>> unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
>> +static ssize_t nfs_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
>> + struct file *filp, loff_t *ppos,
>> + size_t count, unsigned int flags);
>> static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
>> unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
>> static int nfs_file_flush(struct file *, fl_owner_t id);
>> @@ -76,6 +79,7 @@ const struct file_operations nfs_file_operations = {
>> .lock = nfs_lock,
>> .flock = nfs_flock,
>> .splice_read = nfs_file_splice_read,
>> + .splice_write = nfs_file_splice_write,
>> .check_flags = nfs_check_flags,
>> .setlease = nfs_setlease,
>> };
>> @@ -550,6 +554,26 @@ out_swapfile:
>> goto out;
>> }
>>
>> +static ssize_t nfs_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
>> + struct file *filp, loff_t *ppos,
>> + size_t count, unsigned int flags)
>> +{
>> + struct dentry *dentry = filp->f_path.dentry;
>> + struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
>> +
>> + dprintk("NFS splice_write(%s/%s, %lu@%Lu)\n",
>> + dentry->d_parent->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.name,
>> + (unsigned long) count, (unsigned long long) *ppos);
>> +
>> + if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode)) {
>> + printk(KERN_INFO "NFS: attempt to write to active swap"
>> + "file!\n");
>> + return -EBUSY;
>> + }
>> +
>> + return generic_file_splice_write(pipe, filp, ppos, count, flags);
>> +}
>> +
>> static int do_getlk(struct file *filp, int cmd, struct file_lock *fl)
>> {
>> struct inode *inode = filp->f_mapping->host;
>>
>


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Suresh Jayaraman
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