[RFC PATCH 0/3] 9p: Further netfslib-related changes

[David Howells]

Hi Eric, Dominique,

Here are some netfslib-related changes we might want to consider applying
to 9p:

 (1) Enable large folio support for 9p.  This is handled entirely by
     netfslib and is already supported in afs.  I wonder if we should limit
     the maximum folio size to 1MiB to match the maximum I/O size in the 9p
     protocol.

 (2) Make better use of netfslib's writethrough caching support by not
     disabling caching for O_DSYNC.  netfs_perform_write() will set up
     and dispatch write requests as it copies data into the pagecache.

 (3) Always update netfs_inode::remote_size to reflect what we think the
     server's idea of the file size is.  This is separate from
     inode::i_size which is our idea of what it should be if all of our
     outstanding dirty data is committed.

The patches can also be found here:

	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=netfs-9p

Thanks,
David

David Howells (2):
  9p: Make better use of netfslib's writethrough caching
  9p: Always update remote_i_size in stat2inode

Dominique Martinet (1):
  9p: Enable large folio support

 fs/9p/fid.h            | 3 +--
 fs/9p/vfs_inode.c      | 1 +
 fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c | 6 +++---
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)