On 08/18/2017 07:43 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 06:23:18PM +0200, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: >> On 08/18/2017 01:39 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: >> [...] >>> This is happening because the app (the guest OS in this case, we saw this a >>> lot >>> with windows guests) is changing the pages while they are in flight. We >>> calculate the checksum of the page before it's written, so if it changes >>> while >>> in flight we'll end up with a csum mismatch. >>> >>> To fix this change kvm to not use O_DIRECT or set NODATASUM on your qcow2 >>> image. >>> You'll have to re-create the image because NODATASUM won't apply to the >>> already >>> invalid checksums. Thanks, >> >> Hi Josef, >> >> could you elaborate: do you are saying that using O_DIRECT is incompatible >> with DATASUM ? >> > > No, I'm saying using O_DIRECT with applications that don't protect in-flight > memory are incompatible with DATASUM.
This is what I call an 'incompatibility'. Even is a "corner" case, it is still an incompatibility. And to be honest, it is still difficult to say that a "VM" is a "corner" case. > We have no way of making sure nobody > touches the page while we're writing it out, so after we calculate the > checksum > any changes to the page are going to cause a checksum mismatch. O_DIRECT are > user space pages, there's nothing we can do to stop user space from doing > stupid > things. I understand the technical difficulties; however I can't agree about "user space [...] doing *stupid* things". If it is not explicitly forbidden, it is legal; not "stupid" How the application know that the page aren't in-flight anymore ? It is sufficient to wait the end of the write() syscall ? Or it has to wait the end of a fsync() ? > The options I looked into before were things like detecting the page had > changed > since we calculated the checksum, and re-submitting the write. This punishes > applications that do the right thing (databases for example) by forcing us to > calculate checksums twice. There are other "cases" where it is possible to have the same problem ? It is the same for mmap() ? > > This is a shit situation because users aren't going to understand this > limitation, and it bites them in the ass with all these weird errors. I think > maybe we need to go back to the double-checksum thing by default, and have a > flag or something for users to set if they know their application behaves > properly. Or... disable checksum for the "O_DIRECT" writings... If you can't trust the checksums at 100%, these don't make sense. > > Josef > -- gpg @keyserver.linux.it: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijackATinwind.it> Key fingerprint BBF5 1610 0B64 DAC6 5F7D 17B2 0EDA 9B37 8B82 E0B5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
