From 244adf6426ee31a83f397b700d964cff12a247d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:23:17 -0500 Subject: ext4: make dioread_nolock the default This fixes the direct I/O versus writeback race which can reveal stale data, and it improves the tail latency of commits on slow devices. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200125022254.1101588-1-tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- fs/ext4/super.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4') diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index ecf36a23e0c4..c6fe742db798 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -1592,6 +1592,7 @@ static const match_table_t tokens = { {Opt_auto_da_alloc, "auto_da_alloc"}, {Opt_noauto_da_alloc, "noauto_da_alloc"}, {Opt_dioread_nolock, "dioread_nolock"}, + {Opt_dioread_lock, "nodioread_nolock"}, {Opt_dioread_lock, "dioread_lock"}, {Opt_discard, "discard"}, {Opt_nodiscard, "nodiscard"}, @@ -3764,6 +3765,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) set_opt(sb, NO_UID32); /* xattr user namespace & acls are now defaulted on */ set_opt(sb, XATTR_USER); + set_opt(sb, DIOREAD_NOLOCK); #ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL set_opt(sb, POSIX_ACL); #endif @@ -3931,9 +3933,8 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) #endif if (test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_DATA) { - printk_once(KERN_WARNING "EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting " - "with data=journal disables delayed " - "allocation and O_DIRECT support!\n"); + printk_once(KERN_WARNING "EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with data=journal disables delayed allocation, dioread_nolock, and O_DIRECT support!\n"); + clear_opt(sb, DIOREAD_NOLOCK); if (test_opt2(sb, EXPLICIT_DELALLOC)) { ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "can't mount with " "both data=journal and delalloc"); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b