fuse: fence cached reads against NOTIFY invalidate with a percpu gate#189
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A FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_INODE is a coherency event: once the server signals a remote modify, no local read may return a page it has superseded. The invalidate ran unserialized against cache-serving reads, so a buffered read could hand back a stale folio it still held a reference to. Convert the per-inode wb_inval_rwsem to a percpu_rw_semaphore and take its read side around the cache-serving read as well as the existing buffered write. The read side is per-CPU, so it scales on a shared file; the NOTIFY takes the write side blocking, giving the invalidate priority -- it parks new readers, drains in-flight ones, then drops the cache. Every gated invalidate now runs under the write side, not just the storm-latching one. The gate is allocated only for writeback+dlm regular files and is NULL elsewhere (best-effort invalidate, as before). The blocking write side may run on the notify-delivering server thread, so it is safe only under a server that services request replies on other threads; redfs' dlm server provides that contract. Signed-off-by: Horst Birthelmer <hbirthelmer@ddn.com>
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A FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_INODE is a coherency event: once the server signals a remote modify, no local read may return a page it has superseded. The invalidate ran unserialized against cache-serving reads, so a buffered read could hand back a stale folio it still held a reference to.
Convert the per-inode wb_inval_rwsem to a percpu_rw_semaphore and take its read side around the cache-serving read as well as the existing buffered write. The read side is per-CPU, so it scales on a shared file; the NOTIFY takes the write side blocking, giving the invalidate priority -- it parks new readers, drains in-flight ones, then drops the cache. Every gated invalidate now runs under the write side, not just the storm-latching one.
The gate is allocated only for writeback+dlm regular files and is NULL elsewhere (best-effort invalidate, as before). The blocking write side may run on the notify-delivering server thread, so it is safe only under a server that services request replies on other threads; redfs' dlm server provides that contract.