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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] xfs: Don't reuse the same transaciton ID for duplicated transactions.
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 16:41:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100506204115.GA14309@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273110351-2333-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:45:41AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> The transaction ID is written into the log as the unique identifier
> for transactions during recover. When duplicating a transaction, we
> reuse the log ticket, which means it has the same transaction ID as
> the previous transaction.
> 
> Rather than regenerating a random transaction ID for the duplicated
> transaction, just add one to the current ID so that duplicated
> transaction can be easily spotted in the log and during recovery
> during problem diagnosis.

Oh well, more fun with transaction ids.  I'm still not happy with
the not guarnateed unique schemes we have here, but for now this should
do it.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-06 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-06  1:45 [PATCH 0/11] xfs: delayed logging Dave Chinner
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 01/11] xfs: Don't reuse the same transaciton ID for duplicated transactions Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 20:41   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 02/11] xfs: Improve scalability of busy extent tracking Dave Chinner
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 03/11] xfs: allow log ticket allocation to take allocation flags Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 20:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 04/11] xfs: modify buffer item reference counting V2 Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 21:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 05/11] xfs: Clean up XFS_BLI_* flag namespace Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 20:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 06/11] xfs: clean up log ticket overrun debug output Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 20:50   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 07/11] xfs: Delayed logging design documentation Dave Chinner
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 08/11] xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code Dave Chinner
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 09/11] xfs: forced unmounts need to push the CIL Dave Chinner
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 10/11] xfs: enable background pushing of " Dave Chinner
2010-05-06  1:45 ` [PATCH 11/11] xfs: Ensure inode allocation buffers are fully replayed Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 13:26 ` [PATCH 0/11] xfs: delayed logging Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 19:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 23:54     ` Dave Chinner

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