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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: xaiki@sgi.com
Cc: xfs-dev@sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Don't use d_alloc_anon for open_by_handle
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 02:06:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502060654.GA23912@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209693339-4861-1-git-send-email-xaiki@sgi.com>

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:55:37AM +1000, xaiki@sgi.com wrote:
> One of our DMAPI user found that in some cases inodes weren't getting through
> xfs_inactive() in any reasonable amount of time. Investigation tracked it down
> to the use of d_alloc_anon() combined with another thread accessing the same
> inode via an open().
> 
> So we introduce a stripped down version of d_alloc_anon, that won't try to find
> an existing dentry, nor will hash it.

No, this is even more buggy than using d_alloc_anon.  What really needs
to be done in the handle code is to do the full reconnect logic nfsd
would be doing.  Aka you should be using exportfs_decode_fh and update
xfs's fh_to_dentry method to accept the file handle type used by the
handle interface.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080501070244.GH108924158@sgi.com>
2008-05-02  1:55 ` Don't use d_alloc_anon for open_by_handle xaiki
2008-05-02  1:55   ` [PATCH] Don't use hashed dentries when doing open_by_handle xaiki
2008-05-02  1:55     ` [PATCH] Use xfs_d_alloc_anon for DM rdwr using handle code xaiki
2008-05-02  6:06   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-05-05  6:33     ` Don't use d_alloc_anon for open_by_handle Niv Sardi
2008-05-05  9:53       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 18:44         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 20:51           ` Greg Banks
2008-05-06  1:38           ` Niv Sardi

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