fuse: add FOPEN_NOFLUSH

Add flag returned by FUSE_OPEN and FUSE_CREATE requests to avoid flushing
data cache on close.

Different filesystems implement ->flush() is different ways:
 - Most disk filesystems do not implement ->flush() at all
 - Some network filesystem (e.g. nfs) flush local write cache of
   FMODE_WRITE file and send a "flush" command to server
 - Some network filesystem (e.g. cifs) flush local write cache of
   FMODE_WRITE file without sending an additional command to server

FUSE flushes local write cache of ANY file, even non FMODE_WRITE
and sends a "flush" command to server (if server implements it).

The FUSE implementation of ->flush() seems over agressive and
arbitrary and does not make a lot of sense when writeback caching is
disabled.

Instead of deciding on another arbitrary implementation that makes
sense, leave the choice of per-file flush behavior in the hands of
the server.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAJfpegspE8e6aKd47uZtSYX8Y-1e1FWS0VL0DH2Skb9gQP5RJQ@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
index 26730e6..b7f1a16 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/fuse/file.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
@@ -476,6 +476,9 @@ static int fuse_flush(struct file *file, fl_owner_t id)
        if (fuse_is_bad(inode))
                return -EIO;
 
+       if (ff->open_flags & FOPEN_NOFLUSH && !fm->fc->writeback_cache)
+               return 0;
+
        err = write_inode_now(inode, 1);
        if (err)
                return err;

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h b/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
index 36ed092..a1dc3ee 100644 (file)
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
@@ -184,6 +184,9 @@
  *
  *  7.34
  *  - add FUSE_SYNCFS
+ *
+ *  7.35
+ *  - add FOPEN_NOFLUSH
  */
 
 #ifndef _LINUX_FUSE_H
@@ -219,7 +222,7 @@
 #define FUSE_KERNEL_VERSION 7
 
 /** Minor version number of this interface */
-#define FUSE_KERNEL_MINOR_VERSION 34
+#define FUSE_KERNEL_MINOR_VERSION 35
 
 /** The node ID of the root inode */
 #define FUSE_ROOT_ID 1
@@ -290,12 +293,14 @@ struct fuse_file_lock {
  * FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE: the file is not seekable
  * FOPEN_CACHE_DIR: allow caching this directory
  * FOPEN_STREAM: the file is stream-like (no file position at all)
+ * FOPEN_NOFLUSH: don't flush data cache on close (unless FUSE_WRITEBACK_CACHE)
  */
 #define FOPEN_DIRECT_IO                (1 << 0)
 #define FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE       (1 << 1)
 #define FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE      (1 << 2)
 #define FOPEN_CACHE_DIR                (1 << 3)
 #define FOPEN_STREAM           (1 << 4)
+#define FOPEN_NOFLUSH          (1 << 5)
 
 /**
  * INIT request/reply flags