Re: [RFC PATCH] ceph: initialize superblock s_time_gran to 1

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Thu Jun 27 2019 - 10:41:12 EST


On Thu, 2019-06-27 at 14:51 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Having granularity set to 1us results in having inode timestamps with a
> accurancy different from the fuse client (i.e. atime, ctime and mtime will
> always end with '000'). This patch normalizes this behaviour and sets the
> granularity to 1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ceph/super.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Hi!
>
> As far as I could see there are no other side-effects of changing
> s_time_gran but I'm really not sure why it was initially set to 1000 in
> the first place so I may be missing something.
>
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/super.c b/fs/ceph/super.c
> index d57fa60dcd43..35dd75bc9cd0 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/super.c
> @@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ static int ceph_set_super(struct super_block *s, void *data)
> s->s_d_op = &ceph_dentry_ops;
> s->s_export_op = &ceph_export_ops;
>
> - s->s_time_gran = 1000; /* 1000 ns == 1 us */
> + s->s_time_gran = 1;
>
> ret = set_anon_super(s, NULL); /* what is that second arg for? */
> if (ret != 0)


Looks like it was set that way since the client code was originally
merged. Was this an earlier limitation of ceph that is no longer
applicable?

In any case, I see no need at all to keep this at 1000, so:

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>