Merge tag 'for-5.20/io_uring-buffered-writes-2022-07-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull io_uring buffered writes support from Jens Axboe:
"This contains support for buffered writes, specifically for XFS. btrfs
is in progress, will be coming in the next release.
io_uring does support buffered writes on any file type, but since the
buffered write path just always -EAGAIN (or -EOPNOTSUPP) any attempt
to do so if IOCB_NOWAIT is set, any buffered write will effectively be
handled by io-wq offload. This isn't very efficient, and we even have
specific code in io-wq to serialize buffered writes to the same inode
to avoid further inefficiencies with thread offload.
This is particularly sad since most buffered writes don't block, they
simply copy data to a page and dirty it. With this pull request, we
can handle buffered writes a lot more effiently.
If balance_dirty_pages() needs to block, we back off on writes as
indicated.
This improves buffered write support by 2-3x.
Jan Kara helped with the mm bits for this, and Stefan handled the
fs/iomap/xfs/io_uring parts of it"
* tag 'for-5.20/io_uring-buffered-writes-2022-07-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
mm: honor FGP_NOWAIT for page cache page allocation
xfs: Add async buffered write support
xfs: Specify lockmode when calling xfs_ilock_for_iomap()
io_uring: Add tracepoint for short writes
io_uring: fix issue with io_write() not always undoing sb_start_write()
io_uring: Add support for async buffered writes
fs: Add async write file modification handling.
fs: Split off inode_needs_update_time and __file_update_time
fs: add __remove_file_privs() with flags parameter
fs: add a FMODE_BUF_WASYNC flags for f_mode
iomap: Return -EAGAIN from iomap_write_iter()
iomap: Add async buffered write support
iomap: Add flags parameter to iomap_page_create()
mm: Add balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags() function
mm: Move updates of dirty_exceeded into one place
mm: Move starting of background writeback into the main balancing loop