起因
之前写过一篇通过inotify来实现高性能的文件队列的文章,对inotify触发的点有些疑问,到底是底层文件发生变化后才trigger event还是在write complete后才触发的event。有必要搞清楚这个问题。
分析
查看vfs write相关源码https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/read_write.c
static ssize_t __vfs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *p,
size_t count, loff_t *pos)
{
if (file->f_op->write)
return file->f_op->write(file, p, count, pos);
else if (file->f_op->write_iter)
return new_sync_write(file, p, count, pos);
else
return -EINVAL;
}
ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *file, const void *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
{
mm_segment_t old_fs;
const char __user *p;
ssize_t ret;
if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_CAN_WRITE))
return -EINVAL;
old_fs = get_fs();
set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
p = (__force const char __user *)buf;
if (count > MAX_RW_COUNT)
count =