Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] migrate: fix skipping metadata buffer heads on migration

Davidlohr Bueso
2025-04-16T02:07:27Z

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025, Luis Chamberlain wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 06:23:54PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>> So I don't like removing that commit because it makes a
>> "reproducible with a heavy stress test" problem become a "reproduced by
>> real world workloads" problem.
>
>So how about just patch 2 and 8 in this series, with the spin lock
>removal happening on the last patch for Linus tree?

fyi I sent out a new series (trimmed some recipients), addressing the concerns
laid out in this approach.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250415231635.83960-1-dave@stgolabs.net/

Similar to adding artificial delays to a vanilla kernel, the only behavior
these modifications cause is a quicker triggering of the aforementioned
(yet independent) ext4 warning splat/corruption.