From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n0IHVuvG012999 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:31:57 -0600 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E8B0D1818296 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:31:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id fm10eEVCUeayQ45z for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:31:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:31:44 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: spurious -ENOSPC on XFS Message-ID: <20090118173144.GA1999@infradead.org> References: <20090113214949.GN8071@disturbed> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:28:58PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > The result must not depend on magic timer values. If it does, you end up > with undebbugable nondeterministic failures. > > Why don't you change that 500ms wait to "wait until the flush finishes"? > That would be correct. Yes, this probably would better. Could I motivate you to come up with a patch for that? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934464AbZARRcO (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:32:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764991AbZARRb5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:31:57 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:52686 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758483AbZARRb5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:31:57 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:31:44 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Dave Chinner , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: spurious -ENOSPC on XFS Message-ID: <20090118173144.GA1999@infradead.org> References: <20090113214949.GN8071@disturbed> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:28:58PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > The result must not depend on magic timer values. If it does, you end up > with undebbugable nondeterministic failures. > > Why don't you change that 500ms wait to "wait until the flush finishes"? > That would be correct. Yes, this probably would better. Could I motivate you to come up with a patch for that?