re-enable IOCB_NOWAIT writes to files v3
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Tue Dec 16 22:09:33 PST 2025
Hi all,
commit 66fa3cedf16a ("fs: Add async write file modification handling.")
effectively disabled IOCB_NOWAIT writes as timestamp updates currently
always require blocking, and the modern timestamp resolution means we
always update timestamps. This leads to a lot of context switches from
applications using io_uring to submit file writes, making it often worse
than using the legacy aio code that is not using IOCB_NOWAIT.
This series allows non-blocking updates for lazytime if the file system
supports it, and adds that support for XFS.
Changes since v2:
- drop patches merged upstream
- adjust for the inode state accesors
- keep a check in __writeback_single_inode instead of exercising
potentially undefined behavior
- more spelling fixes
Changes since v1:
- more regular numbering of the S_* flags
- fix XFS to actually not block
- don't ignore the generic_update_time return value in
file_update_time_flags
- fix the sync_lazytime return value
- fix an out of data comment in btrfs
- fix a race that would update i_version before returning -EAGAIN in XFS
Diffstat:
Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 2
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 6 ++
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 11 +++-
fs/fat/misc.c | 3 +
fs/fs-writeback.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++---
fs/gfs2/inode.c | 6 +-
fs/inode.c | 89 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
fs/internal.h | 3 -
fs/nfs/inode.c | 4 -
fs/orangefs/inode.c | 8 ++-
fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 3 +
fs/sync.c | 4 -
fs/ubifs/file.c | 11 ++--
fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 35 ++++++++++++-
fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 29 -----------
include/linux/fs.h | 19 ++++---
include/trace/events/writeback.h | 6 --
17 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
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