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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] xfs: truncate_setsize should be outside transactions
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 10:06:18 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140504000618.GK26353@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140503151601.GB28608@infradead.org>

On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 08:16:01AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 09:23:39AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > before we get to the transaction that can fail:
> > block_truncate_page() zeroes the tail of the page cache page. Hence
> > if the transaction reservation fails, we've already trashed the file
> > data - we may as well finish off the job and at least make it look
> > like the truncate succeeded from a user point of view. They then get
> > a ENOMEM error (only non-fatal error that can come from
> > xfs_trans_reserve) and try the truncate again....
> 
> I don't think we can even get the ENOMEM.

We can - we pass KM_MAYFAIL to xlog_ticket_alloc() from
xfs_log_reserve().

> But yeah, I guess
> we want something like the old version, with comments explaining exactly
> we we have this order.

I'll send another version of the first patch with an expanded
comment.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-04  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-01 22:39 [PATCH] xfs: truncate_setsize should be outside transactions Dave Chinner
2014-05-02  4:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-02  5:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-02  6:47     ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-02  7:00       ` [PATCH V2] " Dave Chinner
2014-05-02 10:08         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-02 23:23           ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-03 15:16             ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-04  0:06               ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-05-05  5:19                 ` [PATCH V3] " Dave Chinner
2014-05-06  7:52                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-02 12:50         ` [PATCH V2] " Brian Foster

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