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2007-07-10pipe: add documentation and commentsJens Axboe1-1/+76
As per Andrew Mortons request, here's a set of documentation for the generic pipe_buf_operations hooks, the pipe, and pipe_buffer structures. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm()Jens Axboe1-4/+5
The name 'pin' was badly chosen, it doesn't pin a pipe buffer in the most commonly used sense in the kernel. So change the name to 'confirm', after debating this issue with Hugh Dickins a bit. A good return from ->confirm() means that the buffer is really there, and that the contents are good. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10pipe: allow passing around of ops private pointerJens Axboe1-0/+1
relay needs this for proper consumption handling, and the network receive support needs it as well to lookup the sk_buff on pipe release. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10splice: divorce the splice structure/function definitions from the pipe headerJens Axboe1-41/+0
We need to move even more stuff into the header so that folks can use the splice_to_pipe() implementation instead of open-coding a lot of pipe knowledge (see relay implementation), so move to our own header file finally. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10splice: add void cookie to the actor dataJens Axboe1-0/+1
We need that for passing driver private info. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10vmsplice: add vmsplice-to-user supportJens Axboe1-1/+7
A bit of a cheat, it actually just copies the data to userspace. But this makes the interface nice and symmetric and enables people to build on splice, with room for future improvement in performance. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10splice: abstract out actor dataJens Axboe1-4/+6
For direct splicing (or private splicing), the output may not be a file. So abstract out the handling into a specified actor function and put the data in the splice_desc structure earlier, so we can build on top of that. This is the first step in better splice handling for drivers, and also for implementing vmsplice _to_ user memory. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-06-08pipe: move pipe_inode_info structure decleration up before it's usedJens Axboe1-15/+15
There's really no reason it's below the first use of the pointer type, and it'll fail compilation for the network addition (for good reason). So move it up a bit. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-03-27Export __splice_from_pipe()Mark Fasheh1-0/+4
Ocfs2 wants to implement it's own splice write actor so that it can better manage cluster / page locks. This lets us re-use the rest of splice write while only providing our own code where it's actually important. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-13[PATCH] reorder struct pipe_buf_operationsEric Dumazet1-1/+1
Fields of struct pipe_buf_operations have not a precise layout (ie not optimized to fit cache lines nor reduce cache line ping pongs) The bufs[] array is *large* and is placed near the beginning of the structure, so all following fields have a large offset. This is unfortunate because many archs have smaller instructions when using small offsets relative to a base register. On x86 for example, 7 bits offsets have smaller instruction lengths. Moving bufs[] at the end of pipe_buf_operations permits all fields to have small offsets, and reduce text size, and icache pressure. # size vmlinux.pre vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 3268989 664356 492196 4425541 438745 vmlinux.pre 3268765 664356 492196 4425317 438665 vmlinux So this patch reduces text size by 224 bytes on my x86_64 machine. Similar results on ia32. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] constify pipe_buf_operationsEric Dumazet1-2/+1
- pipe/splice should use const pipe_buf_operations and file_operations - struct pipe_inode_info has an unused field "start" : get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-04[PATCH] splice: LRU fixupsJens Axboe1-2/+3
Nick says that the current construct isn't safe. This goes back to the original, but sets PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU on user pages as well as they all seem to be on the LRU in the first place. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-02[PATCH] vmsplice: restrict stealing a little moreJens Axboe1-0/+1
Apply the same rules as the anon pipe pages, only allow stealing if no one else is using the page. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-02[PATCH] splice: fix page LRU accountingJens Axboe1-3/+2
Currently we rely on the PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU flag being set correctly to know whether we need to fiddle with page LRU state after stealing it, however for some origins we just don't know if the page is on the LRU list or not. So remove PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU and do this check/add manually in pipe_to_file() instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01[PATCH] vmsplice: allow user to pass in gift pagesJens Axboe1-0/+2
If SPLICE_F_GIFT is set, the user is basically giving this pages away to the kernel. That means we can steal them for eg page cache uses instead of copying it. The data must be properly page aligned and also a multiple of the page size in length. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01[PATCH] pipe: enable atomic copying of pipe data to/from user spaceJens Axboe1-5/+6
The pipe ->map() method uses kmap() to virtually map the pages, which is both slow and has known scalability issues on SMP. This patch enables atomic copying of pipe pages, by pre-faulting data and using kmap_atomic() instead. lmbench bw_pipe and lat_pipe measurements agree this is a Good Thing. Here are results from that on a UP machine with highmem (1.5GiB of RAM), running first a UP kernel, SMP kernel, and SMP kernel patched. Vanilla-UP: Pipe bandwidth: 1622.28 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1610.59 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1608.30 MB/sec Pipe latency: 7.3275 microseconds Pipe latency: 7.2995 microseconds Pipe latency: 7.3097 microseconds Vanilla-SMP: Pipe bandwidth: 1382.19 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1317.27 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1355.61 MB/sec Pipe latency: 9.6402 microseconds Pipe latency: 9.6696 microseconds Pipe latency: 9.6153 microseconds Patched-SMP: Pipe bandwidth: 1578.70 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1579.95 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1578.63 MB/sec Pipe latency: 9.1654 microseconds Pipe latency: 9.2266 microseconds Pipe latency: 9.1527 microseconds Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01[PATCH] pipe: introduce ->pin() buffer operationJens Axboe1-1/+20
The ->map() function is really expensive on highmem machines right now, since it has to use the slower kmap() instead of kmap_atomic(). Splice rarely needs to access the virtual address of a page, so it's a waste of time doing it. Introduce ->pin() to take over the responsibility of making sure the page data is valid. ->map() is then reduced to just kmap(). That way we can also share a most of the pipe buffer ops between pipe.c and splice.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01[PATCH] splice: fix bugs in pipe_to_file()Jens Axboe1-2/+1
Found by Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, fixed by me. - Only allow full pages to go to the page cache. - Check page != buf->page instead of using PIPE_BUF_FLAG_STOLEN. - Remember to clear 'stolen' if add_to_page_cache() fails. And as a cleanup on that: - Make the bottom fall-through logic a little less convoluted. Also make the steal path hold an extra reference to the page, so we don't have to differentiate between stolen and non-stolen at the end. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-26[PATCH] splice: rearrange moving to/from pipe helpersJens Axboe1-0/+17
We need these for people writing their own ->splice_read/write hooks. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11[PATCH] splice: add support for sys_tee()Jens Axboe1-0/+1
Basically an in-kernel implementation of tee, which uses splice and the pipe buffers as an intelligent way to pass data around by reference. Where the user space tee consumes the input and produces a stdout and file output, this syscall merely duplicates the data inside a pipe to another pipe. No data is copied, the output just grabs a reference to the input pipe data. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11[PATCH] get rid of the PIPE_*() macrosIngo Molnar1-10/+0
get rid of the PIPE_*() macros. Scripted transformation. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11[PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing supportJens Axboe1-0/+1
It's more efficient for sendfile() emulation. Basically we cache an internal private pipe and just use that as the intermediate area for pages. Direct splicing is not available from sys_splice(), it is only meant to be used for sendfile() emulation. Additional patch from Ingo Molnar to avoid the PIPE_BUFFERS loop at exit for the normal fast path. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-10[PATCH] introduce a "kernel-internal pipe object" abstractionIngo Molnar1-3/+4
separate out the 'internal pipe object' abstraction, and make it usable to splice. This cleans up and fixes several aspects of the internal splice APIs and the pipe code: - pipes: the allocation and freeing of pipe_inode_info is now more symmetric and more streamlined with existing kernel practices. - splice: small micro-optimization: less pointer dereferencing in splice methods Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Update XFS for the ->splice_read/->splice_write changes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-03[PATCH] splice: fix page stealing LRU handling.Jens Axboe1-0/+4
Originally from Nick Piggin, just adapted to the newer branch. You can't check PageLRU without holding zone->lru_lock. The page release code can get away with it only because the page refcount is 0 at that point. Also, you can't reliably remove pages from the LRU unless the refcount is 0. Ever. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-03[PATCH] splice: add a SPLICE_F_MORE flagJens Axboe1-0/+1
This lets userspace indicate whether more data will be coming in a subsequent splice call. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-03[PATCH] splice: improve writeback and clean up page stealingJens Axboe1-1/+0
By cleaning up the writeback logic (killing write_one_page() and the manual set_page_dirty()), we can get rid of ->stolen inside the pipe_buffer and just keep it local in pipe_to_file(). This also adds dirty page balancing logic and O_SYNC handling. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-02splice: add SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flagLinus Torvalds1-0/+3
It doesn't make the splice itself necessarily nonblocking (because the actual file descriptors that are spliced from/to may block unless they have the O_NONBLOCK flag set), but it makes the splice pipe operations nonblocking. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] splice: add support for SPLICE_F_MOVE flagJens Axboe1-0/+8
This enables the caller to migrate pages from one address space page cache to another. In buzz word marketing, you can do zero-copy file copies! Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_semJes Sorensen1-1/+1
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2005-09-08[PATCH] remove pipe definitionsZhigang Huo1-3/+0
These no longer have any users. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+59
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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