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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Do we need a way to force xfsaild to run?
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 10:16:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170519001634.GR17542@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170518142159.gkr6be4dralc6xiq@eorzea.usersys.redhat.com>

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 04:21:59PM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is something I was thinking while working on that buffer retry stuff.
> 
> Currently, we have no way to force xfsaild to run, and I was wondering if
> somebody has any opinion if it would be useful to create a new xfsctl, to start
> xfsaild for debugging purposes, using xfs_io to trigger it.

THere's lots of ways to trigger it to run. You can do it on demand
via a freeze or remount-ro or by filling up the log, or get it to
run every second automatically iso there's no wait time at all by
turning /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfssyncd_centiseconds down to the minimum.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-19  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-18 14:21 Do we need a way to force xfsaild to run? Carlos Maiolino
2017-05-18 14:32 ` Shan Hai
2017-05-18 15:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-05-19  0:16 ` Dave Chinner [this message]

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