On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 01:40:14AM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 03:34:49PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:24 PM, "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.w...@oracle.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 01:51:22PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I'm interested in discussing how to pass protection information to and
> > >> from
> > >> userspace. Maybe Martin could be enlisted for the discussion.
> > >>
> > >> I read that some work has already been done in this area but have not
> > >> been able
> > >> to locate it. It looks like the bio-integrity code already makes it
> > >> possible
> > >> to generate the t10-dif crc in the filesystem. It would be good to be
> > >> able to
> > >> get the guard and application tags back out to backup applications such
> > >> as
> > >> xfsdump. Enabling other applications to generate their own tags in
> > >> userspace
> > >> is also interesting.
> > >
> > > This one's been on my list for a couple of years (and companies) too. A
> > > few
> > > years ago Joel Becker had support for it in his sys_dio proposal (that
> > > hasn't
> > > gone anywhere), and more recently I've theorized that we could add a magic
> > > fcntl/ioctl to make the kernel recognize, say, the first iovec of a
> > > O_DIRECT
> > > *{read,write}v call as the PI buffer, which I think is similar to how DIX
> > > gets
> > > PI data to a disk. But it's not like I have any code to show for it.
> > >
> > > I /think/ it's fairly straightforward to change the directio submit code
> > > to
> > > find the userspace PI buffer and amend the block integrity code to attach
> > > our
> > > own PI buffer. You'd still have to let the block layer set the sector #
> > > field,
> > > but afaik that won't affect the crc or the app tag.
> > >
> > > I hear that the NFS guys want to propose some sort of protocol for
> > > transmitting
> > > PI data (across NFS), but I haven't seen anything concrete yet.
> >
> > I'm writing a requirements document for the NFS protocol which I can
> > discuss at LSF. The use cases for NFS for now would be virtual disk
> > devices (hypervisors) or direct NFS access to storage from user space.
> >
> > Like everyone else we are waiting for a magical VFS and user space API to
> > appear that can pass PI to and from storage.
>
> I'm happy to chat about it. Unfortunately, like Darrick says, sys_dio()
> coding hasn't happened. I do think we're better off with some kind of
> explicit API than some magic state on the file. I mean, even something
> like:
>
> ssize_t write_with_pi(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count,
> const void *pi, size_t pi_count);
>
> It's not as nice as a non-historical API (eg sys_dio), but it also
> probably plays nicer with buffered I/O.
I also pondered simply adding a new io_prep_* function + IO_CMD_ code to libaio
and all the other plumbing necessary to make that happen...
void io_prep_preadv_pi(struct iocb *iocb, int fd, const struct iovec *iov,
int iovcnt, long long offset, const void *pi,
size_t pi_count);
--D
>
> Joel
>
> >
> > > Well, I hope I'll scrape together the time to hack together a PoC before
> > > LSF...
> > > on the other hand, I ran the discussion about PI userland interfaces at
> > > LPC2011
> > > and (shamefully) haven't done anything yet.
> > >
> > > <end rambling>
> > >
> > > --D
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Ben
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