From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] ext4: Disable merging of uninitialized extents
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:36:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130128143647.GD22711@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcamdi6e.fsf@openvz.org>
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:49:45PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> > 1) It may need allocation of extent tree block so ENOSPC is possible.
> > 2) It complicates end_io handling code
>
> As we already discussed your idea is 100% correct, but even with
> what patch I still able to trigger situation where split it required.
> I've got following error with this patch applied on top of 7f5118629f7
> EXT4-fs error (device dm-3): ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio:3411:
> inode #12: comm kworker/u:4: Written extent modified before IO finished:
> extent logical block 1379787, len 64; IO logical block 1379787, len 21
So does this patch makes this better enough that it's worth applying
now? Or should we hold off until we figure out what's going on with
the race that you've foind?
Thanks,
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-28 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-18 12:00 [PATCH 0/12 v2] ext4: Several simplifications and fixes Jan Kara
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 01/12] ext4: Always use ext4_bio_write_page() for writeout Jan Kara
2013-01-28 14:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 02/12] ext4: Use redirty_page_for_writepage() in ext4_bio_write_page() Jan Kara
2013-01-28 14:34 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 03/12] ext4: Remove bogus wait for unwritten extents in ext4_ind_direct_IO Jan Kara
2013-01-22 11:11 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-01-22 13:44 ` Jan Kara
2013-01-22 14:12 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-01-22 15:21 ` Jan Kara
2013-01-22 14:22 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-22 15:22 ` Jan Kara
2013-01-22 16:00 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-22 23:14 ` Jan Kara
2013-01-23 6:11 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-23 9:42 ` Jan Kara
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 04/12] ext4: Disable merging of uninitialized extents Jan Kara
2013-01-24 9:49 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-01-24 15:12 ` Jan Kara
2013-01-24 15:32 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-01-28 14:36 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2013-01-28 15:02 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-01-28 15:38 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-29 7:41 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-01-29 8:37 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-31 7:47 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-01-31 12:39 ` Jan Kara
2013-01-31 14:09 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-01-31 16:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-09 17:10 ` REGRESSION: " Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-12 21:58 ` Jan Kara
2013-02-13 4:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-13 7:26 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-02-13 15:08 ` Merge window planning for ext4 and Ted's vacation Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-14 10:47 ` REGRESSION: [PATCH 04/12] ext4: Disable merging of uninitialized extents Jan Kara
2013-02-14 16:11 ` Jan Kara
2013-02-14 19:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-14 21:32 ` Jan Kara
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 05/12] ext4: Remove unnecessary wait for extent conversion in ext4_fallocate() Jan Kara
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 06/12] ext4: Move work from io_end to inode Jan Kara
2013-01-28 14:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 07/12] ext4: Simplify list handling in ext4_do_flush_completed_IO() Jan Kara
2013-01-28 14:51 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 08/12] ext4: Remove __ext4_journalled_writepage() from mpage_da_submit_io() Jan Kara
2013-01-28 14:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 09/12] ext4: Dirty page has always buffers attached Jan Kara
2013-01-28 17:55 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 10/12] ext4: Simplify mpage_add_bh_to_extent() Jan Kara
2013-01-28 18:06 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 11/12] ext4: Make ext4_bio_writepage() handle unprepared buffers Jan Kara
2013-01-29 1:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-18 12:00 ` [PATCH 12/12] ext4: Fix ext4_writepage() to achieve data=ordered guarantees Jan Kara
2013-01-29 2:08 ` Theodore Ts'o
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