Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: introduce ST_HUGE flag and set it to tmpfs and hugetlbfs

[Yang Shi]

On 4/19/18 1:28 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:18:25AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> > Yes, thanks for the suggestion. I did think about it before I went with the
> > new flag. Not like hugetlb, THP will *not* guarantee huge page is used all
> > the time, it may fallback to regular 4K page or may get split. I'm not sure
> > how the applications use f_bsize field, it might break existing applications
> > and the value might be abused by applications to have counter optimization.
> > So, IMHO, a new flag may sound safer.
> But st_blksize isn't the block size, that is why I suggested it.  It is
> the preferred I/O size, and various file systems can report way
> larger values than the block size already.

Thanks. If it is safe to applications, It definitely can return huge 
page size via st_blksize.

Is it safe to return huge page size via statfs->f_bsize? It sounds it 
has not to be the physical block size too. The man page says it is 
"Optimal transfer block size".

Yang