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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] [dm-thin] Fix a race condition between discard bios and ordinary bios.
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:52:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121214155222.GA1145@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355429956-22785-6-git-send-email-ejt@redhat.com>

On Thu, Dec 13 2012 at  3:19pm -0500,
Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> wrote:

> The deferred_set entries should not be incremented until the bio
> prison cells are held.  Otherwise quiescing a block for discard may
> end up waiting for a bio that's held in the discard bios cell.

This patch's subject and header needs help.  We've already fixed the
race with discards and normal bios in an earlier patch:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2012-December/msg00010.html

This patch is purely about adapting dm-thin to use the new bio-prison
interface where the memory is now passed in rather than using a mempool
in bio-prison.  Two preallocated cells are now included in struct
thin_c; this allows the map function to not block performing allocations
(we want to avoid the cell allocation that is done in bio_detain).

The thin_c is allocated once in the constructor (thin_ctr).  Because the
thin_c is a shared resource, access to its cells must be serialized
using a new spinlock.

(NOTE: elevating the dm_bio_prison_cell structure from dm-bio-prison.c
to dm-bio-prison.h really should be part of this patch -- rather than
the previous patch).

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-14 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-13 20:19 Another cache target Joe Thornber
2012-12-13 20:19 ` [PATCH 1/8] [persistent-data] Fix a bug in btree_del, and another bug that was compensating for it Joe Thornber
2012-12-13 20:19 ` [PATCH 2/8] [persistent-data] dm_btree_walk Joe Thornber
2012-12-13 20:19 ` [PATCH 3/8] [persistent-data] tweak an error message Joe Thornber
2012-12-13 20:19 ` [PATCH 4/8] [dm-bio-prison] Change the bio-prison interface so the memory for the cells is passed in Joe Thornber
2013-01-14 10:02   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-14 14:06     ` thornber
2013-01-14 14:22       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-21 23:32   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-22 11:31     ` thornber
2013-01-22 12:10       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2012-12-13 20:19 ` [PATCH 5/8] [dm-thin] Fix a race condition between discard bios and ordinary bios Joe Thornber
2012-12-14 15:52   ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2013-01-22  0:03   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-24  2:35   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-24 13:23     ` thornber
2013-02-06  0:11       ` Mikulas Patocka
2013-02-07 11:20         ` thornber
2012-12-13 20:19 ` [PATCH 6/8] [persistent-data] Add a transactional array Joe Thornber
2013-01-22 21:18   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-23 12:07     ` thornber
2013-01-25 20:11   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-28 13:06     ` thornber
2013-01-28 20:25       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-28 14:57     ` thornber
2013-01-28 20:22       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2012-12-13 20:19 ` [PATCH 7/8] [persistent-data] transactional bitset Joe Thornber
2013-01-22 21:59   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2012-12-13 20:19 ` [PATCH 8/8] [dm-cache] cache target Joe Thornber
2012-12-14  0:17   ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-12-14 10:09     ` thornber
2013-02-12 15:27   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-02-12 16:40     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-02-12 17:29       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-02-14 13:57       ` Joe Thornber
2013-02-14 14:05     ` Joe Thornber
2013-02-14 21:06       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2012-12-13 21:57 ` Another " Mike Snitzer
2012-12-14  1:16   ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-12-14  2:19     ` Mike Snitzer
2012-12-14  2:27       ` Mike Snitzer
2012-12-14  2:42         ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-12-14  4:23           ` Mike Snitzer
2012-12-14  2:34       ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-12-14 10:24         ` thornber
2012-12-14 12:11           ` thornber
2012-12-14 21:51             ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-12-15  8:23               ` Joe Thornber
2012-12-18  1:49                 ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-12-18  2:31                   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-08  0:19                 ` Darrick J. Wong
2013-01-08 13:55                   ` thornber
2012-12-22 18:50       ` Mark Hills
2012-12-17 16:54     ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2012-12-18 15:44       ` basic cache policy module fix [was: Re: Another cache target] Mike Snitzer
2012-12-20  1:14         ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-12-20 12:57           ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2012-12-20 13:24             ` Mike Snitzer
2012-12-20 16:10               ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-12-20 17:02                 ` Heinz Mauelshagen

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