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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Always reset btree cursor after an insert
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:35:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080619083544.GA19606@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4859F9EB.5050505@sgi.com>

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:17:15PM +1000, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> After a btree insert operation a cursor can be invalid due to block
> splits and a maybe a new root block.  We reset the cursor in
> xfs_bmbt_insert() in the cases where we think we need to but it
> isn't enough as we still see assertions.  Just do what we do elsewhere
> and reset the cursor unconditionally.  Version 2 adds
> XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO checks throughout xfs_bmap.c and removes the
> fix to revalidate the original cursor in xfs_bmbt_insert().

Can you commit the XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO checks as a separate patch
before the cursor reset?  ACK from me for those hunks.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-19  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-19  6:17 [PATCH V2] Always reset btree cursor after an insert Lachlan McIlroy
2008-06-19  8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-06-20  1:42   ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-06-20  3:37     ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-20  7:35       ` Lachlan McIlroy

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