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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>,
	"stable [v4.9]" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix incorrect log_flushed on fsync
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 12:43:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170901104309.GA25726@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQ4uxhgp82Oz-fTFNwRy3Yr-9xqVpwEFYQ82QqX7mze2sK0xQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 01:37:28PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Well since the bug was demonstrated using crash simulator,
> I have no idea how often one would run into this with actual power
> failure, but does it really matter how often, if we *know* that it can
> happen?

No, the issue is real.  I wonder how much of an issue the additional
flushes are in practice.

> I am working on a variant of the flushseq you suggested using
> log->l_last_sync_lsn that may be simple enough and not as painful
> as turning off optimization for WANT_SYNC log buffer.

Ok, I'll take a look once you post it.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-01 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-30 13:38 [PATCH] xfs: fix incorrect log_flushed on fsync Amir Goldstein
2017-08-30 13:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 14:12   ` Amir Goldstein
2017-08-30 14:21     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 17:01 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-08-31 13:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-31 14:37   ` Amir Goldstein
2017-08-31 16:39     ` Brian Foster
2017-08-31 19:20       ` Amir Goldstein
2017-08-31 20:10         ` Brian Foster
2017-09-01  7:58           ` Amir Goldstein
2017-09-01 10:46             ` Brian Foster
2017-09-01  9:52         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-01 10:37           ` Amir Goldstein
2017-09-01 10:43             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-09-01  9:47     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-15 12:40 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-09-18 17:11   ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-09-18 18:00     ` Amir Goldstein
2017-09-18 18:35       ` Greg KH
2017-09-18 19:29         ` Amir Goldstein
2017-09-19  6:32           ` Greg KH
2018-06-09  4:44             ` Amir Goldstein
2018-06-09  7:13               ` Greg KH
2017-09-18 21:24       ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-19  5:31         ` Amir Goldstein
2017-09-19  5:45           ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-09-20  0:40           ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-20  1:08             ` Vijay Chidambaram
2017-09-20  8:59             ` Eryu Guan

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