On Nov 16 2016, Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/16/2016 11:19 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:Not sure I understand. What is it that's blocking? It can't be the
Hi Maxim,I think that's exhaustive list, but I can miss something.
On Nov 15 2016, Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/15/2016 08:18 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:Ah, that makes sense. Are these two cases meant as examples, or is that
Could someone explain to me the meaning of the max_background andfuse uses max_background for cases where the total number of
congestion_threshold settings of the fuse module?
At first I assumed that max_background specifies the maximum number of
pending requests (i.e., requests that have been send to userspace but
for which no reply was received yet). But looking at fs/fuse/dev.c, it
looks as if not every request is included in this number.
simultaneous requests of given type is not limited by some other
natural means. AFAIU, these cases are: 1) async processing of direct
IO; 2) read-ahead. As an example of "natural" limitation: when
userspace process blocks on a sync direct IO read/write, the number of
requests fuse consumed is limited by the number of such processes
(actually their threads). In contrast, if userspace requests 1GB
direct IO read/write, it would be unreasonable to issue 1GB/128K==8192
fuse requests simultaneously. That's where max_background steps in.
an exhaustive list? Because I would have thought that other cases should
be writing of cached data (when writeback caching is enabled), and
asynchronous I/O from userspace...?
As for writing of cached data, that definitely doesn't go through
background requests. Here we rely on flusher: fuse will allocate as
many requests as the flusher wants to writeback.
Buffered AIO READs actually block in submit_io until fully
processed. So it's just another example of "natural" limitation I told
above.
userspace process, because then it wouldn't be asynchronous I/O...
I see. But why isn't that also done for regular (non-direct) IO?Also, I am not sure what you mean with async processing of directThat's a nice optimization we implemented a few years ago: having
I/O. Shouldn't direct I/O always go directly to the file-system? If so,
how can it be processed asynchronously?
incoming sync direct IO request of 1MB size, kernel fuse splits it
into eight 128K requests and starts processing them in async manner,
waiting for the completion of all of them before completing that
incoming 1MB requests.
Thanks,
-Nikolaus