ceph: add new "nopagecache" option
CephFS is a bit unlike most other filesystems in that it only conditionally does buffered I/O based on the caps that it gets from the MDS. In most cases, unless there is contended access for an inode the MDS does give Fbc caps to the client, so the unbuffered codepaths are only infrequently traveled and are difficult to test. At one time, the "-o sync" mount option would give you this behavior, but that was removed in commit 7ab9b380 ("ceph: Don't use ceph-sync-mode for synchronous-fs."). Add a new mount option to tell the client to ignore Fbc caps when doing I/O, and to use the synchronous codepaths exclusively, even on non-O_DIRECT file descriptors. We already have an ioctl that forces this behavior on a per-file basis, so we can just always set the CEPH_F_SYNC flag in the file description on such mounts. Additionally, this patch also changes the client to not request Fbc when doing direct I/O. We aren't using the cache with O_DIRECT so we don't have any need for those caps. Signed-off-by:Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Greg Farnum <gfarnum@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Venky Shankar <vshankar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment