Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] virtiofs,fuse: support per-file DAX

On 7/21/21 10:42 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 08:48:57AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
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So is "dax=inode" enough for your needs? What's your requirement,
can you give little bit of more details.

In our use case, the backend fs is something like SquashFS on host. The
content of the file on host is downloaded *as needed*. When the file is
not completely ready (completely downloaded), the guest will follow the
normal IO routine, i.e., by FUSE_READ/FUSE_WRITE request. While the file
is completely ready, per-file DAX is enabled for this file. IOW the FUSE
server need to dynamically decide if per-file DAX shall be enabled,
depending on if the file is completely downloaded.

So you don't want to enable DAX yet because guest might fault on
a section of file which has not been downloaded yet?

I am wondering if somehow user fault handling can help with this.
If we could handle faults for this file in user space, then you
should be able to download that particular page[s] and resolve
the fault?

Stefan mentioned that can't we block when fuse mmap request comes
in and download corresponding section of file. Or do whatever you
are doing in FUSE_READ. 

IOW, even if you enable dax in your use case on all files,
FUSE_SETUPMAPPING request will give you control to make sure 
file section being mmaped has been downloaded.

Sorry for the late reply. I missed this mail as it is classified into
the mailing list folder.

The idea you mentioned may works. Anyway, the implementation details of
the FUSE server is not strongly binding to the FUSE protocol changes in
kernel. The protocol only requires that FUSE client shall be able to
store FS_DAX_FL attr persistently in *some way*. The changes in kernel
shall be general, no matter whether the FUSE server is FS_DAX_FL attr
based or something else.


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Thanks,
Jeffle
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