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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Itaru Kitayama <kitayama@cl.bb4u.ne.jp>,
	linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] btrfs: implement delayed inode items operation
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:49:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1300297740-sup-2597@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D80C81F.60507@cn.fujitsu.com>

Excerpts from Miao Xie's message of 2011-03-16 10:24:31 -0400:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:48:50 +0900, Itaru Kitayama wrote:
> > Hi Miao,
> > 
> > The V4 still hangs. Does the new function, btrfs_update_inode_nodelayed() you introduced to the V4
> > need take care of a delayed node (commit delayed items of the inode and set the delayed note to NULL)?
> 
> I think there no delayed item because we commit all the delayed items when we start committing
> transaction.
> 
> > 
> > Below is my experimental patch on top of V4 trying to avoid taking trans_mutex in btrfs_remove_delayed_node(), 
> > but still hangs. Could you take a look at it? Thanks.
> 
> It is so strange I can not reproduce it on my machine. But by reviewing the code, I think some inodes
> may be updated when committing the transaction, it makes the filesystem hang.

Maybe this is related to the free space cache?  Is one of you using
mount -o space_cache?

-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-16 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-09 15:03 [PATCH V3] btrfs: implement delayed inode items operation Itaru Kitayama
2011-03-10  6:21 ` Miao Xie
2011-03-16  9:48   ` Itaru Kitayama
2011-03-16 14:24     ` Miao Xie
2011-03-16 17:49       ` Chris Mason [this message]
2011-03-17  1:37         ` Itaru Kitayama
2011-03-18  3:37     ` Miao Xie
2011-03-18  8:59       ` Itaru Kitayama
2011-03-18  9:18         ` Miao Xie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-03  6:06 Miao Xie
2011-03-05  7:01 ` Itaru Kitayama
2011-03-06 23:25   ` Tsutomu Itoh
2011-03-07  1:57     ` Miao Xie
2011-03-10  3:07       ` Itaru Kitayama
2011-03-08 16:56 ` David Sterba
2011-03-09  5:40   ` Miao Xie
2011-03-11 15:24     ` David Sterba

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