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Jeffle Xu 93a497b9ad fuse: enable per inode DAX
DAX may be limited in some specific situation. When the number of usable
DAX windows is under watermark, the recalim routine will be triggered to
reclaim some DAX windows. It may have a negative impact on the
performance, since some processes may need to wait for DAX windows to be
recalimed and reused then. To mitigate the performance degradation, the
overall DAX window need to be expanded larger.

However, simply expanding the DAX window may not be a good deal in some
scenario. To maintain one DAX window chunk (i.e., 2MB in size), 32KB
(512 * 64 bytes) memory footprint will be consumed for page descriptors
inside guest, which is greater than the memory footprint if it uses
guest page cache when DAX disabled. Thus it'd better disable DAX for
those files smaller than 32KB, to reduce the demand for DAX window and
thus avoid the unworthy memory overhead.

Per inode DAX feature is introduced to address this issue, by offering a
finer grained control for dax to users, trying to achieve a balance
between performance and memory overhead.

The FUSE_ATTR_DAX flag in FUSE_LOOKUP reply is used to indicate whether
DAX should be enabled or not for corresponding file. Currently the state
whether DAX is enabled or not for the file is initialized only when
inode is instantiated.

Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
History 2021-12-14 11:09:37 +01:00
arch parisc architecture build-, trace-, backtrace- and page table fixes 2021-11-14 11:53:59 -08:00
block blk-mq: fix filesystem I/O request allocation 2021-11-12 09:31:13 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Update to zstd-1.4.10 2021-11-13 15:32:30 -08:00
Documentation
drivers arch/sh updates for 5.16 2021-11-14 11:37:49 -08:00
fs
include fuse: support per inode DAX in fuse protocol 2021-12-14 11:09:36 +01:00
init
ipc ipc/ipc_sysctl.c: remove fallback for !CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL 2021-11-09 10:02:53 -08:00
kernel A single fix for POSIX CPU timers to address a problem where POSIX CPU 2021-11-14 10:43:38 -08:00
lib Update to zstd-1.4.10 2021-11-13 15:32:30 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm Revert "mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens" 2021-11-13 12:03:03 -08:00
net One notable change here is that async creates and unlinks introduced 2021-11-13 11:31:07 -08:00
samples Add gitignore file for samples/fanotify/ subdirectory 2021-11-07 11:19:24 -08:00
scripts coccinelle patches for 5.16-rc1 2021-11-13 10:45:17 -08:00
security net,lsm,selinux: revert the security_sctp_assoc_established() hook 2021-11-12 12:07:02 -05:00
sound sound fixes for 5.16-rc1 2021-11-12 12:17:30 -08:00
tools A single fix for static calls to make the trampoline patching more robust 2021-11-14 10:30:17 -08:00
usr initramfs: Check timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2021-10-24 13:48:40 +09:00
virt
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-11-09 10:11:53 -08:00
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Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
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Makefile Linux 5.16-rc1 2021-11-14 13:56:52 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.