From: "Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj@urpla.net>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Paul Anderson <pha@umich.edu>,
Sean Thomas Caron <scaron@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] xfs: log the inode in ->write_inode calls for kupdate
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:35:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112282235.57645.hpj@urpla.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111218154955.GB17626@infradead.org>
On Sunday 18 December 2011, 16:49:55 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> If the writeback code writes back an inode because it has expired we
> currently use the non-blockin ->write_inode path. This means any
> inode that is pinned is skipped. With delayed logging and a workload
> that has very little log traffic otherwise it is very likely that an
> inode that gets constantly written to is always pinned, and thus we
> keep refusing to write it. The VM writeback code at that point
> redirties it and doesn't try to write it again for another 30
> seconds. This means under certain scenarious time based metadata
> writeback never happens.
Wouldn't this qualify as STABLE material then?
> Fix this by calling into xfs_log_inode for kupdate in addition to
> data integrity syncs, and thus transfer the inode to the log ASAP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
> ===================================================================
> --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c 2011-12-14 05:33:07.193262189 -0800
> +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c 2011-12-14 05:38:56.108038623 -0800
> @@ -905,7 +884,7 @@ xfs_fs_write_inode(
> if (!ip->i_update_core)
> return 0;
>
> - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) {
> + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->for_kupdate) {
> /*
> * Make sure the inode has made it it into the log. Instead
> * of forcing it all the way to stable storage using a
>
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20111218154936.GA17626@infradead.org>
2011-12-18 15:49 ` [PATCH 1/1] xfs: log the inode in ->write_inode calls for kupdate Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-20 21:19 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-23 15:55 ` Mark Tinguely
2011-12-23 17:58 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-28 21:35 ` Hans-Peter Jansen [this message]
2011-12-28 21:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 15:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: log all dirty inodes in xfs_fs_sync_fs Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 20:03 ` Sean Thomas Caron
2011-12-18 20:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 22:17 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-18 22:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-20 20:08 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] " Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-20 21:21 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-23 15:55 ` Mark Tinguely
2011-12-23 21:47 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-26 12:13 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-29 15:42 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-29 21:44 ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-03 15:48 ` Mark Tinguely
2011-12-21 17:40 ` sync fixes Christoph Hellwig
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