From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:26:12 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [patch v3] splice: fix race with page invalidation Message-ID: <20080731102612.GA29766@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20080731001131.GA30900@shareable.org> <20080731004214.GA32207@shareable.org> <20080731061201.GA7156@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080731061201.GA7156@shareable.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Linus Torvalds , Miklos Szeredi , jens.axboe@oracle.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:12:01AM +0100, Jamie Lokier (jamie@shareable.org) wrote: > The obvious mechanism for completion notifications is the AIO event > interface. I.e. aio_sendfile that reports completion when it's safe > to modify data it was using. aio_splice would be logical for similar > reasons. Note it doesn't mean when the data has reached a particular > place, it means when the pages it's holding are released. Pity AIO > still sucks ;-) It is not that simple: page can be held in hardware or tcp queues for a long time, and the only possible way to know, that system finished with it, is receiving ack from the remote side. There is a project to implement such a callback at skb destruction time (it is freed after ack from the other peer), but do we really need it? System which does care about transmit will implement own ack mechanism, so page can be unlocked at higher layer. Actually page can be locked during transfer and unlocked after rpc reply received, so underlying page invalidation will be postponed and will not affect sendfile/splice. > Btw, Windows had this since forever, it's called overlapped > TransmitFile with an I/O completion event. Don't know if it's any > good though ;-) There was a linux aio_sendfile() too. Google still knows about its numbers, graphs and so on... :) -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org