fs: add atomic write unit max opt to statx

XFS will be able to support large atomic writes (atomic write > 1x block)
in future. This will be achieved by using different operating methods,
depending on the size of the write.

Specifically a new method of operation based in FS atomic extent remapping
will be supported in addition to the current HW offload-based method.

The FS method will generally be appreciably slower performing than the
HW-offload method. However the FS method will be typically able to
contribute to achieving a larger atomic write unit max limit.

XFS will support a hybrid mode, where HW offload method will be used when
possible, i.e. HW offload is used when the length of the write is
supported, and for other times FS-based atomic writes will be used.

As such, there is an atomic write length at which the user may experience
appreciably slower performance.

Advertise this limit in a new statx field, stx_atomic_write_unit_max_opt.

When zero, it means that there is no such performance boundary.

Masks STATX{_ATTR}_WRITE_ATOMIC can be used to get this new field. This is
ok for older kernels which don't support this new field, as they would
report 0 in this field (from zeroing in cp_statx()) already. Furthermore
those older kernels don't support large atomic writes - apart from block
fops, but there would be consistent performance there for atomic writes
in range [unit min, unit max].

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
index f78ee3670dd5..1686861aae20 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
@@ -182,8 +182,12 @@ struct statx {
 	/* File offset alignment for direct I/O reads */
 	__u32	stx_dio_read_offset_align;
 
-	/* 0xb8 */
-	__u64	__spare3[9];	/* Spare space for future expansion */
+	/* Optimised max atomic write unit in bytes */
+	__u32	stx_atomic_write_unit_max_opt;
+	__u32	__spare2[1];
+
+	/* 0xc0 */
+	__u64	__spare3[8];	/* Spare space for future expansion */
 
 	/* 0x100 */
 };