[RFC PATCH v1 7/8] nfs: allow LOCALIO for P2PDMA pages only as aligned direct I/O
From: Pranjal Shrivastava
Date: Tue Oct 06 2026 - 19:33:45 EST
LOCALIO hands READs and WRITEs to the local filesystem, which can take
P2PDMA pages only if its disk can DMA to them. Use LOCALIO for such I/O
only if the filesystem's block device supports P2PDMA. Otherwise send a
regular READ or WRITE RPC, as if LOCALIO were off.
When the I/O is not a single DIO-aligned segment, LOCALIO falls back to
buffered I/O, which copies the payload through the page cache via CPU
accesses. Fail such I/O with -EINVAL instead.
Signed-off-by: Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/internal.h | 8 ++++++++
fs/nfs/localio.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 3 +++
3 files changed, 51 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h
index d6ea41a3f9b4..9338b5e0896a 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h
@@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ extern struct nfsd_file *nfs_local_open_fh(struct nfs_client *,
struct nfs_fh *,
struct nfs_file_localio *,
const fmode_t);
+struct nfsd_file *nfs_local_p2pdma_check(struct nfsd_file *localio);
extern int nfs_local_doio(struct nfs_client *,
struct nfsd_file *,
struct nfs_pgio_header *,
@@ -495,6 +496,13 @@ nfs_local_open_fh(struct nfs_client *clp, const struct cred *cred,
{
return NULL;
}
+
+static inline struct nfsd_file *
+nfs_local_p2pdma_check(struct nfsd_file *localio)
+{
+ return NULL;
+}
+
static inline int nfs_local_doio(struct nfs_client *clp,
struct nfsd_file *localio,
struct nfs_pgio_header *hdr,
diff --git a/fs/nfs/localio.c b/fs/nfs/localio.c
index f42b6112a613..6c8f2d393c35 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/localio.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/localio.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/nfs_common.h>
#include <linux/nfslocalio.h>
#include <linux/bvec.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/nfs.h>
#include <linux/nfs_fs.h>
@@ -290,6 +291,22 @@ nfs_local_open_fh(struct nfs_client *clp, const struct cred *cred,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_local_open_fh);
+/*
+ * LOCALIO moves P2PDMA pages only by DMA to and from the local disk.
+ * If that disk cannot do P2PDMA, put @localio and return NULL so the
+ * I/O is sent as a regular RPC instead.
+ */
+struct nfsd_file *nfs_local_p2pdma_check(struct nfsd_file *localio)
+{
+ struct file *file = nfs_to->nfsd_file_file(localio);
+ struct block_device *bdev = file_inode(file)->i_sb->s_bdev;
+
+ if (bdev && blk_queue_pci_p2pdma(bdev_get_queue(bdev)))
+ return localio;
+ nfs_local_file_put(localio);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Ensure all page cache allocations are done from GFP_NOFS context to
* prevent direct reclaim recursion back into NFS via nfs_writepages.
@@ -511,6 +528,17 @@ nfs_local_iters_init(struct nfs_local_kiocb *iocb, int rw)
iov_iter_bvec(&iocb->iters[0], rw, iocb->bvec, v, len);
}
+/*
+ * P2PDMA payloads move only by DMA, never through the page cache, so the
+ * whole I/O must be a single DIO-aligned segment.
+ */
+static bool nfs_local_p2pdma_misaligned(struct nfs_local_kiocb *iocb)
+{
+ return iocb->hdr->args.p2pdma &&
+ (atomic_read(&iocb->n_iters) != 1 ||
+ !iocb->iter_is_dio_aligned[0]);
+}
+
static void
nfs_local_hdr_release(struct nfs_pgio_header *hdr,
const struct rpc_call_ops *call_ops)
@@ -732,6 +760,12 @@ static void nfs_local_do_read(struct nfs_local_kiocb *iocb,
nfs_local_pgio_init(hdr, call_ops);
hdr->res.eof = false;
+ if (nfs_local_p2pdma_misaligned(iocb)) {
+ nfs_local_pgio_done(iocb, -EINVAL);
+ nfs_local_pgio_release(iocb);
+ return;
+ }
+
INIT_WORK(&iocb->work, nfs_local_call_read);
if (nfs_local_defer_io())
queue_work(nfslocaliod_workqueue, &iocb->work);
@@ -953,6 +987,12 @@ static void nfs_local_do_write(struct nfs_local_kiocb *iocb,
nfs_set_local_verifier(hdr->inode, hdr->res.verf, hdr->args.stable);
+ if (nfs_local_p2pdma_misaligned(iocb)) {
+ nfs_local_pgio_done(iocb, -EINVAL);
+ nfs_local_pgio_release(iocb);
+ return;
+ }
+
INIT_WORK(&iocb->work, nfs_local_call_write);
if (nfs_local_defer_io())
queue_work(nfslocaliod_workqueue, &iocb->work);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index ec535ed3051d..2d1d07c460fd 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -1023,6 +1023,9 @@ static int nfs_generic_pg_pgios(struct nfs_pageio_descriptor *desc)
&hdr->args.context->nfl,
hdr->args.context->mode);
+ if (localio && hdr->args.p2pdma)
+ localio = nfs_local_p2pdma_check(localio);
+
if (NFS_SERVER(hdr->inode)->nfs_client->cl_minorversion)
task_flags = RPC_TASK_MOVEABLE;
ret = nfs_initiate_pgio(NFS_CLIENT(hdr->inode),
--
2.56.0.rc1.315.gc6ed9934b7-goog