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[v2,09/25] fs: Add a filesystem flag for large pages

Message ID 20200212041845.25879-10-willy@infradead.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Large pages in the page cache | expand

Commit Message

Matthew Wilcox Feb. 12, 2020, 4:18 a.m. UTC 
From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>

The page cache needs to know whether the filesystem supports pages >
PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
---
 include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig Feb. 12, 2020, 7:43 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:18:29PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
> 
> The page cache needs to know whether the filesystem supports pages >
> PAGE_SIZE.

Does it make sense to set this flag on the file_system_type, which
is rather broad scope, or a specific superblock or even inode?

For some file systems we might require on-disk flags that aren't set
for all instances.
Matthew Wilcox Feb. 12, 2020, 2:59 p.m. UTC | #2 
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:43:18PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:18:29PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
> > 
> > The page cache needs to know whether the filesystem supports pages >
> > PAGE_SIZE.
> 
> Does it make sense to set this flag on the file_system_type, which
> is rather broad scope, or a specific superblock or even inode?
> 
> For some file systems we might require on-disk flags that aren't set
> for all instances.

I don't see why we'd need on-disk flags or need to control this on a
per-inode or per-sb basis.  My intent for this flag is to represent
whether the filesystem understands large pages; how the file is cached
should make no difference to the on-disk layout.
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diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index d4e2d2964346..24e720723afb 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2235,6 +2235,7 @@  struct file_system_type {
 #define FS_HAS_SUBTYPE		4
 #define FS_USERNS_MOUNT		8	/* Can be mounted by userns root */
 #define FS_DISALLOW_NOTIFY_PERM	16	/* Disable fanotify permission events */
+#define FS_LARGE_PAGES		8192	/* Remove once all fs converted */
 #define FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE	32768	/* FS will handle d_move() during rename() internally. */
 	int (*init_fs_context)(struct fs_context *);
 	const struct fs_parameter_spec *parameters;