NFS: Do not serialise O_DIRECT reads and writes

Allow dio requests to be scheduled in parallel, but ensuring that they
do not conflict with buffered I/O.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>

1 files changed, 147 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/io.c b/fs/nfs/io.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1fc5d1ce327e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/nfs/io.c
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 Trond Myklebust
+ *
+ * I/O and data path helper functionality.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/nfs_fs.h>
+
+#include "internal.h"
+
+/* Call with exclusively locked inode->i_rwsem */
+static void nfs_block_o_direct(struct nfs_inode *nfsi, struct inode *inode)
+{
+	if (test_bit(NFS_INO_ODIRECT, &nfsi->flags)) {
+		clear_bit(NFS_INO_ODIRECT, &nfsi->flags);
+		inode_dio_wait(inode);
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * nfs_start_io_read - declare the file is being used for buffered reads
+ * @inode - file inode
+ *
+ * Declare that a buffered read operation is about to start, and ensure
+ * that we block all direct I/O.
+ * On exit, the function ensures that the NFS_INO_ODIRECT flag is unset,
+ * and holds a shared lock on inode->i_rwsem to ensure that the flag
+ * cannot be changed.
+ * In practice, this means that buffered read operations are allowed to
+ * execute in parallel, thanks to the shared lock, whereas direct I/O
+ * operations need to wait to grab an exclusive lock in order to set
+ * NFS_INO_ODIRECT.
+ * Note that buffered writes and truncates both take a write lock on
+ * inode->i_rwsem, meaning that those are serialised w.r.t. the reads.
+ */
+void
+nfs_start_io_read(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
+	/* Be an optimist! */
+	down_read(&inode->i_rwsem);
+	if (test_bit(NFS_INO_ODIRECT, &nfsi->flags) == 0)
+		return;
+	up_read(&inode->i_rwsem);
+	/* Slow path.... */
+	down_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
+	nfs_block_o_direct(nfsi, inode);
+	downgrade_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
+}
+
+/**
+ * nfs_end_io_read - declare that the buffered read operation is done
+ * @inode - file inode
+ *
+ * Declare that a buffered read operation is done, and release the shared
+ * lock on inode->i_rwsem.
+ */
+void
+nfs_end_io_read(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	up_read(&inode->i_rwsem);
+}
+
+/**
+ * nfs_start_io_write - declare the file is being used for buffered writes
+ * @inode - file inode
+ *
+ * Declare that a buffered read operation is about to start, and ensure
+ * that we block all direct I/O.
+ */
+void
+nfs_start_io_write(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	down_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
+	nfs_block_o_direct(NFS_I(inode), inode);
+}
+
+/**
+ * nfs_end_io_write - declare that the buffered write operation is done
+ * @inode - file inode
+ *
+ * Declare that a buffered write operation is done, and release the
+ * lock on inode->i_rwsem.
+ */
+void
+nfs_end_io_write(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	up_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
+}
+
+/* Call with exclusively locked inode->i_rwsem */
+static void nfs_block_buffered(struct nfs_inode *nfsi, struct inode *inode)
+{
+	if (!test_bit(NFS_INO_ODIRECT, &nfsi->flags)) {
+		set_bit(NFS_INO_ODIRECT, &nfsi->flags);
+		nfs_wb_all(inode);
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * nfs_end_io_direct - declare the file is being used for direct i/o
+ * @inode - file inode
+ *
+ * Declare that a direct I/O operation is about to start, and ensure
+ * that we block all buffered I/O.
+ * On exit, the function ensures that the NFS_INO_ODIRECT flag is set,
+ * and holds a shared lock on inode->i_rwsem to ensure that the flag
+ * cannot be changed.
+ * In practice, this means that direct I/O operations are allowed to
+ * execute in parallel, thanks to the shared lock, whereas buffered I/O
+ * operations need to wait to grab an exclusive lock in order to clear
+ * NFS_INO_ODIRECT.
+ * Note that buffered writes and truncates both take a write lock on
+ * inode->i_rwsem, meaning that those are serialised w.r.t. O_DIRECT.
+ */
+void
+nfs_start_io_direct(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
+	/* Be an optimist! */
+	down_read(&inode->i_rwsem);
+	if (test_bit(NFS_INO_ODIRECT, &nfsi->flags) != 0)
+		return;
+	up_read(&inode->i_rwsem);
+	/* Slow path.... */
+	down_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
+	nfs_block_buffered(nfsi, inode);
+	downgrade_write(&inode->i_rwsem);
+}
+
+/**
+ * nfs_end_io_direct - declare that the direct i/o operation is done
+ * @inode - file inode
+ *
+ * Declare that a direct I/O operation is done, and release the shared
+ * lock on inode->i_rwsem.
+ */
+void
+nfs_end_io_direct(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	up_read(&inode->i_rwsem);
+}