Re: [PATCH 0/3] iopmem : A block device for PCIe memory

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Oct 27 2016 - 09:50:58 EST


On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 01:22:49PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> Christoph, did you manage to leap to the future and solve the
> RDMA persistency hole? :)
>
> e.g. what happens with O_DSYNC in this model? Or you did
> a message exchange for commits?

Yes, pNFS calls this the layoutcommit. That being said once we get a RDMA
commit or flush operation we could easily make the layoutcommit optional
for some operations. There already is a precedence for the in the
flexfiles layout specification.