netfs: Optimise away reads above the point at which there can be no data

Track the file position above which the server is not expected to have any
data (the "zero point") and preemptively assume that we can satisfy
requests by filling them with zeroes locally rather than attempting to
download them if they're over that line - even if we've written data back
to the server.  Assume that any data that was written back above that
position is held in the local cache.  Note that we have to split requests
that straddle the line.

Make use of this to optimise away some reads from the server.  We need to
set the zero point in the following circumstances:

 (1) When we see an extant remote inode and have no cache for it, we set
     the zero_point to i_size.

 (2) On local inode creation, we set zero_point to 0.

 (3) On local truncation down, we reduce zero_point to the new i_size if
     the new i_size is lower.

 (4) On local truncation up, we don't change zero_point.

 (5) On local modification, we don't change zero_point.

 (6) On remote invalidation, we set zero_point to the new i_size.

 (7) If stored data is discarded from the pagecache or culled from fscache,
     we must set zero_point above that if the data also got written to the
     server.

 (8) If dirty data is written back to the server, but not fscache, we must
     set zero_point above that.

 (9) If a direct I/O write is made, set zero_point above that.

Assuming the above, any read from the server at or above the zero_point
position will return all zeroes.

The zero_point value can be stored in the cache, provided the above rules
are applied to it by any code that culls part of the local cache.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/fs/afs/dynroot.c b/fs/afs/dynroot.c
index 1f656005018e..9c517269ff95 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dynroot.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dynroot.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ struct inode *afs_iget_pseudo_dir(struct super_block *sb, bool root)
 	/* there shouldn't be an existing inode */
 	BUG_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_NEW));
 
-	netfs_inode_init(&vnode->netfs, NULL);
+	netfs_inode_init(&vnode->netfs, NULL, false);
 	inode->i_size		= 0;
 	inode->i_mode		= S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO;
 	if (root) {
diff --git a/fs/afs/inode.c b/fs/afs/inode.c
index 37485ae31471..381521e9e118 100644
--- a/fs/afs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/afs/inode.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static noinline void dump_vnode(struct afs_vnode *vnode, struct afs_vnode *paren
  */
 static void afs_set_netfs_context(struct afs_vnode *vnode)
 {
-	netfs_inode_init(&vnode->netfs, &afs_req_ops);
+	netfs_inode_init(&vnode->netfs, &afs_req_ops, true);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ static void afs_apply_status(struct afs_operation *op,
 	struct inode *inode = &vnode->netfs.inode;
 	struct timespec64 t;
 	umode_t mode;
+	bool unexpected_jump = false;
 	bool data_changed = false;
 	bool change_size = vp->set_size;
 
@@ -231,6 +232,7 @@ static void afs_apply_status(struct afs_operation *op,
 		}
 		change_size = true;
 		data_changed = true;
+		unexpected_jump = true;
 	} else if (vnode->status.type == AFS_FTYPE_DIR) {
 		/* Expected directory change is handled elsewhere so
 		 * that we can locally edit the directory and save on a
@@ -252,6 +254,8 @@ static void afs_apply_status(struct afs_operation *op,
 		vnode->netfs.remote_i_size = status->size;
 		if (change_size || status->size > i_size_read(inode)) {
 			afs_set_i_size(vnode, status->size);
+			if (unexpected_jump)
+				vnode->netfs.zero_point = status->size;
 			inode_set_ctime_to_ts(inode, t);
 			inode_set_atime_to_ts(inode, t);
 		}
@@ -865,17 +869,17 @@ static void afs_setattr_success(struct afs_operation *op)
 static void afs_setattr_edit_file(struct afs_operation *op)
 {
 	struct afs_vnode_param *vp = &op->file[0];
-	struct inode *inode = &vp->vnode->netfs.inode;
+	struct afs_vnode *vnode = vp->vnode;
 
 	if (op->setattr.attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
 		loff_t size = op->setattr.attr->ia_size;
 		loff_t i_size = op->setattr.old_i_size;
 
-		if (size < i_size)
-			truncate_pagecache(inode, size);
-		if (size != i_size)
-			fscache_resize_cookie(afs_vnode_cache(vp->vnode),
-					      vp->scb.status.size);
+		if (size != i_size) {
+			truncate_setsize(&vnode->netfs.inode, size);
+			netfs_resize_file(&vnode->netfs, size, true);
+			fscache_resize_cookie(afs_vnode_cache(vnode), size);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
@@ -943,11 +947,11 @@ int afs_setattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
 		 */
 		if (!(attr->ia_valid & (supported & ~ATTR_SIZE & ~ATTR_MTIME)) &&
 		    attr->ia_size < i_size &&
-		    attr->ia_size > vnode->status.size) {
-			truncate_pagecache(inode, attr->ia_size);
+		    attr->ia_size > vnode->netfs.remote_i_size) {
+			truncate_setsize(inode, attr->ia_size);
+			netfs_resize_file(&vnode->netfs, size, false);
 			fscache_resize_cookie(afs_vnode_cache(vnode),
 					      attr->ia_size);
-			i_size_write(inode, attr->ia_size);
 			ret = 0;
 			goto out_unlock;
 		}