From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] xfs: check for buffer errors before waiting
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:07:04 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120329220704.GB18323@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F74D89B.1060008@sgi.com>
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 04:48:11PM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> On 03/29/12 16:10, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 02:04:09PM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> >If the previous user of the buffer got an error, it is not
> >guaranteed to be cleared because the buffer is not re-initialised.
> >i.e. it's an uncached buffer that we control completely and reuse
> >from IO to IO with just a reset of the bno and length. If b_error is
> >non zero here, then the IO can fail because nothing else clears the
> >error in the dispatch path....
>
> Thank-you for the explanation.
>
> FYI: I am having problems with the patches applying. This patch
> complained at hunk at offset 623. Maybe I am using too new of kernel
> source.
That's because they are based on top of a current TOT mainline and
Christoph's dio ilock and xfsbufd removal changes.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-29 12:23 [PATCH 0/8] xfs: clean up unit usage in xfs_buf V2 Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 1/8] xfs: check for buffer errors before waiting Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:04 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 21:10 ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 21:48 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 22:07 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-03-29 19:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-29 21:17 ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 2/8] xfs: fix incorrect b_offset initialisation Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-29 20:43 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 3/8] xfs: use kmem_zone_zalloc for buffers Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-29 20:45 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 4/8] xfs: clean up buffer get/read call API Dave Chinner
2012-03-30 19:12 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 5/8] xfs: kill b_file_offset Dave Chinner
2012-03-30 19:12 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 6/8] xfs: use blocks for counting length of buffers Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-30 19:13 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 7/8] xfs: use blocks for storing the desired IO size Dave Chinner
2012-03-30 19:13 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 8/8] xfs: kill xfs_buf_btoc Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-30 19:13 ` Mark Tinguely
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