From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, jack@suse.cz,
wenqing.lz@taobao.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers V2
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:41:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120913104136.GB11330@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347211634-11509-7-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Hi Dmitry,
Could you please provide more detailed workload to convince me? I
am thinking about whether we really need to disable dioread_nolock
feature in here. In our benchmarks, we don't see this problem.
Regards,
Zheng
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 09:27:13PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> If we have enough aggressive DIO readers, truncate and other dio
> waiters will wait forever inside inode_dio_wait(). It is reasonable
> to disable nonlock DIO read optimization during truncate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
> ---
> fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 +-
> fs/ext4/fsync.c | 2 +-
> fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index 8252651..b5b801f 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -4853,7 +4853,7 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length)
> }
>
> /* finish any pending end_io work */
> - inode_dio_wait(inode);
> + ext4_inode_dio_wait(inode, 1);
> ext4_flush_completed_IO(inode);
>
> credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
> index 290c5cf..bdf6bfd 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
> @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
> if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
> goto out;
>
> - inode_dio_wait(inode);
> + ext4_inode_dio_wait(inode, 1);
> ret = ext4_flush_completed_IO(inode);
> if (ret < 0)
> goto out;
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 93e6b09..a850026 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -4335,7 +4335,7 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
> truncate_setsize(inode, attr->ia_size);
> /* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight */
> if (orphan)
> - inode_dio_wait(inode);
> + ext4_inode_dio_wait(inode, 1);
> }
> ext4_truncate(inode);
> }
> --
> 1.7.7.6
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-13 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-09 17:27 [PATCH 0/7] ext4: Bunch of DIO/AIO fixes Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 1/7] ext4: ext4_inode_info diet Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-13 10:50 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-13 11:15 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-15 15:53 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 2/7] ext4: completed_io locking cleanup Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-10 9:23 ` Jan Kara
2012-09-10 10:19 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-13 10:48 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 3/7] ext4: serialize dio nolocked reads with defrag workers V2 Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-10 9:31 ` Jan Kara
2012-09-10 10:00 ` Jan Kara
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 4/7] ext4: fsync should wait for DIO writers Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-10 9:51 ` Jan Kara
2012-09-10 10:56 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-12 14:02 ` Jan Kara
2012-09-12 5:40 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-13 10:46 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-13 11:01 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-13 12:36 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 5/7] ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-10 9:54 ` Jan Kara
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 6/7] ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers V2 Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-13 10:41 ` Zheng Liu [this message]
2012-09-13 12:07 ` Jan Kara
2012-09-13 12:57 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-13 14:34 ` Jan Kara
2012-09-13 23:31 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 7/7] ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers V2 Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-13 10:37 ` Zheng Liu
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