[Virtio-fs] [PATCH RESEND][RFC] virtiofsd: do not fall back to buffer io when cache=auto/always

[Vivek Goyal]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 02:49:54PM +0800, piaojun wrote:
> When O_DIRECT flags is set by Guest, virtiofsd will open file with
> O_DIRECT, but unset 'fi->direct_io' which makes Guest go buffer io path.

Where is virtiofsd unset fi->direct_io flag? All I can see is that it
sets this flag if cache=none?

Thanks
Vivek

> That causes inconsistency between Guest and Host.
> 
> The cache option in virtiofsd should not affect the file io mode, so
> set 'fi->direct_io' according to 'fi->flags'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jun Piao <piaojun at huawei.com>
> ---
>  contrib/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/contrib/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c b/contrib/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> index ca11764..a9c98d0 100644
> --- a/contrib/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> +++ b/contrib/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> @@ -1774,8 +1774,10 @@ static void lo_create(fuse_req_t req, fuse_ino_t parent, const char *name,
>  		fi->fh = fh;
>  		err = lo_do_lookup(req, parent, name, &e);
>  	}
> -	if (lo->cache == CACHE_NONE)
> +	if (fi->flags & O_DIRECT)
>  		fi->direct_io = 1;
> +	if (lo->cache == CACHE_NONE)
> +		fi->keep_cache = 0;
>  	else if (lo->cache == CACHE_ALWAYS)
>  		fi->keep_cache = 1;
> 
> @@ -1982,8 +1984,11 @@ static void lo_open(fuse_req_t req, fuse_ino_t ino, struct fuse_file_info *fi)
>  	}
> 
>  	fi->fh = fh;
> -	if (lo->cache == CACHE_NONE)
> +
> +	if (fi->flags & O_DIRECT)
>  		fi->direct_io = 1;
> +	if (lo->cache == CACHE_NONE)
> +		fi->keep_cache = 0;
>  	else if (lo->cache == CACHE_ALWAYS)
>  		fi->keep_cache = 1;
>  	fuse_reply_open(req, fi);
> -- 
> 
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