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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] xfs: remove MS_ACTIVE guard from inode reclaim work
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:30:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120312133040.GF25944@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331095828-28742-10-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 03:50:27PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> We need to be able to queue inode reclaim work during the mount
> process as quotacheck can cause large amounts of inodes to be read
> and we need to clean them up periodically as the shrinkers can not
> run until after the mount process has completed.
> 
> The reclaim work is currently protected from running during the
> unmount process by a check against MS_ACTIVE. Unfortunately, this
> also means that the relcaim work cannot run during mount.  The
> unmount process should stop the reclaim cleanly before freeing
> anything that the reclaim work depends on, so there is no need to
> have this guard in place.
> 
> Also, the inode reclaim work is demand driven, so ther eis no need
> to start it immediately during mount. It will be started the moment
> an inode is queued for reclaim, so qutoacheck will trigger it just
> fine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-07  4:50 [PATCH 0/10] xfs: various fixes v2 Dave Chinner
2012-03-07  4:50 ` [PATCH 01/10] xfs: clean up minor sparse warnings Dave Chinner
2012-03-08 21:34   ` Ben Myers
2012-03-09  0:30     ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-07  4:50 ` [PATCH 02/10] xfs: Fix open flag handling in open_by_handle code Dave Chinner
2012-03-12 13:27   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-13 21:15   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-07  4:50 ` [PATCH 03/10] xfs: fallback to vmalloc for large buffers in xfs_attrmulti_attr_get Dave Chinner
2012-03-12 13:27   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-14 18:04   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-07  4:50 ` [PATCH 04/10] xfs: fallback to vmalloc for large buffers in xfs_getbmap Dave Chinner
2012-03-12 13:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-14 18:12   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-07  4:50 ` [PATCH 05/10] xfs: introduce an allocation workqueue Dave Chinner
2012-03-12 16:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-19 16:47   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-19 22:20     ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-20 16:34       ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-20 22:45         ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-07  4:50 ` [PATCH 06/10] xfs: remove remaining scraps of struct xfs_iomap Dave Chinner
2012-03-15 16:48   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-07  4:50 ` [PATCH 07/10] xfs: fix inode lookup race Dave Chinner
2012-03-07  4:50 ` [PATCH 08/10] xfs: initialise xfssync work before running quotachecks Dave Chinner
2012-03-12 13:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-16 17:07   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-07  4:50 ` [PATCH 09/10] xfs: remove MS_ACTIVE guard from inode reclaim work Dave Chinner
2012-03-12 13:30   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-03-07  4:50 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfs: don't cache inodes read through bulkstat Dave Chinner
2012-03-12 13:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-14 20:44   ` Ben Myers
2012-03-15 18:14   ` Ben Myers
2012-03-15 22:05     ` Dave Chinner

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