Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: allocate blocks for pinned file

[Chao Yu]

On 2019/6/28 10:15, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 06/28, Chao Yu wrote:
>> Hi Jaegeuk,
>>
>> On 2019/6/28 1:05, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>>> This patch allows fallocate to allocate physical blocks for pinned file.
>>
>> Quoted from manual of fallocate(2):
>> "
>> Any subregion within the range specified by offset and len that did not contain
>> data before the  call  will  be  initialized  to zero.
>>
>> If  the  FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE  flag  is specified in mode .... Preallocating
>> zeroed blocks beyond the end of the file in this manner is useful for optimizing
>> append workloads.
>> "
>>
>> As quoted description, our change may break the rule of fallocate(, mode = 0),
>> because with after this change, we can't guarantee that preallocated physical
>> block contains zeroed data
>>
>> Should we introduce an additional ioctl for this case? Or maybe add one more
>> flag in fallocate() for unzeroed block preallocation, not sure.
> 
> I thought like that, but this is a very corner case for the pinned file only in
> f2fs. And, the pinned file is also indeed used by this purpose.

Okay, I think we need to find one place to document such behavior that is not
matching regular poxis fallocate's sematic, user should be noticed about it.

Thanks,

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  fs/f2fs/file.c | 7 ++++++-
>>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
>>> index e7c368db8185..cdfd4338682d 100644
>>> --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
>>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
>>> @@ -1528,7 +1528,12 @@ static int expand_inode_data(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
>>>  	if (off_end)
>>>  		map.m_len++;
>>>  
>>> -	err = f2fs_map_blocks(inode, &map, 1, F2FS_GET_BLOCK_PRE_AIO);
>>> +	if (f2fs_is_pinned_file(inode))
>>> +		map.m_seg_type = CURSEG_COLD_DATA;
>>> +
>>> +	err = f2fs_map_blocks(inode, &map, 1, (f2fs_is_pinned_file(inode) ?
>>> +						F2FS_GET_BLOCK_PRE_DIO :
>>> +						F2FS_GET_BLOCK_PRE_AIO));
>>>  	if (err) {
>>>  		pgoff_t last_off;
>>>  
>>>
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