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ocfs2: fix sparse file & data ordering issue in direct io
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There are mainly three issues in the direct io code path after commit
24c40b3 ("ocfs2: implement ocfs2_direct_IO_write"):

  * Does not support sparse file.
  * Does not support data ordering.  eg: when write to a file hole, it
    will alloc extent first.  If system crashed before io finished, data
    will corrupt.
  * Potential risk when doing aio+dio.  The -EIOCBQUEUED return value is
    likely to be ignored by ocfs2_direct_IO_write().

To resolve above problems, re-design direct io code with following ideas:
  * Use buffer io to fill in holes.  And this will make better
    performance also.
  * Clear unwritten after direct write finished.  So we can make sure
    meta data changes after data write to disk.  (Unwritten extent is
    invisible to user, from user's view, meta data is not changed when
    allocate an unwritten extent.)
  * Clear ocfs2_direct_IO_write().  Do all ending work in end_io.

This patch has passed fs,dio,ltp-aiodio.part1,ltp-aiodio.part2,ltp-aiodio.part4
test cases of ltp.

For performance improvement, see following test result:
ocfs2 cluster size 1MB, ocfs2 volume is mounted on /mnt/.
The original way:
  + rm /mnt/test.img -f
  + dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test.img bs=4K count=1048576 oflag=direct
  1048576+0 records in
  1048576+0 records out
  4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 1707.83 s, 2.5 MB/s
  + rm /mnt/test.img -f
  + dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test.img bs=256K count=16384 oflag=direct
  16384+0 records in
  16384+0 records out
  4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 582.705 s, 7.4 MB/s

After this patch:
  + rm /mnt/test.img -f
  + dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test.img bs=4K count=1048576 oflag=direct
  1048576+0 records in
  1048576+0 records out
  4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 64.6412 s, 66.4 MB/s
  + rm /mnt/test.img -f
  + dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test.img bs=256K count=16384 oflag=direct
  16384+0 records in
  16384+0 records out
  4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 34.7611 s, 124 MB/s

Signed-off-by: Ryan Ding <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Junxiao Bi <[email protected]>
Cc: Joseph Qi <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Ryan Ding authored and torvalds committed Mar 25, 2016
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