[Virtio-fs] data integrity in dax mode

Liu Bo bo.liu at linux.alibaba.com
Tue Jul 2 05:59:38 UTC 2019


Hi,

I have a concern about data integrity in dax mode.

For now virtio_fs_copy_from_iter() (i.e. the write direction) only
does copy_from_iter(), which doesn't enforce a clean_cache_range or
CLWB.  And even worse, virtio-fs doesn't have a dax_writepages like,
which can calls dax_writeback_mapping_range().

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did virtio-fs solve it in some way?

thanks,
-liubo




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