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[096/104] virtiofsd: Reset O_DIRECT flag during file open

Message ID 20191212163904.159893-97-dgilbert@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series virtiofs daemon [all] | expand

Commit Message

Dr. David Alan Gilbert Dec. 12, 2019, 4:38 p.m. UTC
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

If an application wants to do direct IO and opens a file with O_DIRECT
in guest, that does not necessarily mean that we need to bypass page
cache on host as well. So reset this flag on host.

If somebody needs to bypass page cache on host as well (and it is safe to
do so), we can add a knob in daemon later to control this behavior.

I check virtio-9p and they do reset O_DIRECT flag.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
---
 tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

Comments

Daniel P. Berrangé Jan. 7, 2020, 12:17 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 04:38:56PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> 
> If an application wants to do direct IO and opens a file with O_DIRECT
> in guest, that does not necessarily mean that we need to bypass page
> cache on host as well. So reset this flag on host.
> 
> If somebody needs to bypass page cache on host as well (and it is safe to
> do so), we can add a knob in daemon later to control this behavior.
> 
> I check virtio-9p and they do reset O_DIRECT flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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Patch

diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
index cf6b548eee..6b3d396b6f 100644
--- a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
+++ b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
@@ -1705,6 +1705,13 @@  static void lo_create(fuse_req_t req, fuse_ino_t parent, const char *name,
         goto out;
     }
 
+    /*
+     * O_DIRECT in guest should not necessarily mean bypassing page
+     * cache on host as well. If somebody needs that behavior, it
+     * probably should be a configuration knob in daemon.
+     */
+    fi->flags &= ~O_DIRECT;
+
     fd = openat(parent_inode->fd, name, (fi->flags | O_CREAT) & ~O_NOFOLLOW,
                 mode);
     err = fd == -1 ? errno : 0;
@@ -1934,6 +1941,13 @@  static void lo_open(fuse_req_t req, fuse_ino_t ino, struct fuse_file_info *fi)
         fi->flags &= ~O_APPEND;
     }
 
+    /*
+     * O_DIRECT in guest should not necessarily mean bypassing page
+     * cache on host as well. If somebody needs that behavior, it
+     * probably should be a configuration knob in daemon.
+     */
+    fi->flags &= ~O_DIRECT;
+
     sprintf(buf, "%i", lo_fd(req, ino));
     fd = openat(lo->proc_self_fd, buf, fi->flags & ~O_NOFOLLOW);
     if (fd == -1) {