From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>,
Allison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/8 v2] ext4: initialize extent status tree
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:59:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120925205921.GA8625@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120925124252.GA1518@gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 08:42:52PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> > If so, we might want to think about adding a sanity check to make sure
> > that by the time we are done with the inode in ext4_evict_inode()
> > (after we have forced writeback), the ext4_es_tree is empty. Agreed?
>
> Today I revise this patch again, and I find extent_status_tree is freed
> in ext4_clear_inode(). So maybe I don't think that we need to check
> this tree to be freed in ext4_evict_inode(). This change is in this
> patch '[RFC][PATCH 4/8 v2] ext4: let ext4 maintain extent status tree'.
> What's your opinion?
When you say "revise this patch again", does that mean that you would
like to submit a new set of patch series with changes? Or just that
you are looking at this patch set again?
It's certainly true that ext4_evict_inode() will call
ext4_clear_inode(), so it's not a question of worrying about a memory
leak. I was thinking more about doing this as a cheap sanity check
for the data structure. By the time we call ext4_evict_inode(), the
mm layer all writeback should be complete. Hence, all of the entries
to the tree _should_ have been removed by the time we call
ext4_evict_inode().
I don't know if this is going to change as you start using this data
structure for other purposes (such as locking a range of pages), but
if I understand how things are currently working, it _should_ be the
case that when ext4_evict_inode() calls ext4_clear_inode(), the call
to ext4_es_remove_extent() should be a no-op, since all of the nodes
in the extent status tree should have been released by then. If it
isn't, then either I'm not understanding the code, or there's a bug in
the code.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-25 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-22 6:05 [RFC][PATCH 0/8 v2] ext4: extent status tree (step 1) Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/8 v2] ext4: add two structures supporting extent status tree Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/8 v2] ext4: add operations on " Zheng Liu
2012-09-19 18:34 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-24 4:25 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-19 18:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-24 3:35 ` Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/8 v2] ext4: initialize " Zheng Liu
2012-09-19 18:53 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-19 19:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-24 4:45 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-25 12:42 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-25 20:59 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2012-09-26 2:09 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-26 2:47 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-26 3:24 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-26 3:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-26 3:54 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-26 3:46 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-26 3:59 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-28 7:27 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-28 17:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
[not found] ` <CANWLp02F=qDXY_KbhAziPkBe8qGKV6oN3XtSdc5bWOkbDG684g@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-29 3:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-29 13:26 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-30 14:00 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-29 13:24 ` Fwd: " Zheng Liu
2012-09-26 8:00 ` Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/8 v2] ext4: let ext4 maintain " Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/8 v2] ext4: add some tracepoints in " Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/8 v2] ext4: reimplement fiemap on " Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/8 v2] ext4: reimplement ext4_find_delay_alloc_range " Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/8 v2] ext4: introduce lseek SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support Zheng Liu
2012-09-20 14:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/8 v2] ext4: extent status tree (step 1) Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-21 1:51 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-21 3:19 ` Yongqiang Yang
2012-09-22 0:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-24 3:16 ` Zheng Liu
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