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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: avoid shutdown hang in xlog_wait()
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:28:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120325112801.GA7157@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120324224648.GF5091@dastard>

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 09:46:49AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Looks good.  I wonder if it might be simple to simply pass a flags
> > argument to xfs_ail_delete(_bulk) which tells which kind of shutdown
> > to do.
> 
> I thought about doing that, but it seems strange and unusual to tell
> code how to handle errors internally instead of returning the error
> and letting the caller handle it...
> 
> I don't mind either way, though. If you prefer I pass in the
> shutdown flag, I can change it all to do that....

I don't have a strong opinion.  Moving the shutdown to the caller is
cleaner for sure, but it's a lot of churn when the other version would

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-25 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-23  1:47 [PATCH 0/2] xfs: fix a class of shutdown hangs Dave Chinner
2012-03-23  1:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: move shutdown out of xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk Dave Chinner
2012-03-24 17:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-23  1:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: avoid shutdown hang in xlog_wait() Dave Chinner
2012-03-24 17:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-24 22:46     ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-25 11:28       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-03-27  9:45         ` [PATCH v2] shutdown hang fix (was Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: avoid shutdown hang in xlog_wait()) Dave Chinner
2012-03-27  9:57           ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-06 17:42           ` Mark Tinguely

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