[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 0/3] ocfs2: Resolve the problem of truncate log flush.

[Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>]

Hi Joel,

On 09/16/2010 02:41 PM, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 02:19:51PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
>> 0002-0003 are a little complicate here.
>> So in general, even we have freed the clusters to the global
>> bitmap(by the above flush), we can't use them because they haven't
>> been committed to the disk(check the comments above
>> ocfs2_test_bg_bit_allocatable for details). So we have to tell jbd2
>> to flush immediately.
>
> Mark,
> 	Didn't we do something to allow our allocation to re-use these
> clusters?  Or was that for "thought to be allocated but never actually
> used" clusters?
At least from my test, we don't re-use them. If yes, my first patch 
should resolve the problem and no need for 0002 and 0003.
>
>> 0002 reverts some change in commit c271c5c so that now even in local
>> mode we can force jbd2 to flush immediately.
>> 0003 add the 'checkpoint' to ocfs2_truncate_log_needs_flush, so that
>> the callers know that we need to checkpoint after the flush.
>>
>> Actually 0003 can work without 0002 since in cluster env,
>> ocfs2_start_checkpoint will work and 0002 is just used for a local
>> mode. So feel free to drop 0002 if we decide to still keep ocfs2cmt
>> out of local mode.
>
> 	Assuming we want to force jbd2 out, which is heavy as you point
> out, can't we just sync the filesystem?  Wouldn't that work without
> adding ocfs2cmt?
I am just worried about the locking. My current solution call 
ocfs2_start_checkpoint which only wakeup checkpoint_event. We have no 
chance of locking and what's more, ocfs2cmt seems to work steadily for 
several years.

So maybe we can add a work to ocfs2_wq and let it do the 
ocfs2_sync_fs()? I am just afraid of blocking ocfs2_wq like what orphan 
scan did recently. You know that. ;)

Regards,
Tao