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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] xfs: free inodes on log recovery error
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 02:02:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140709090224.GA31122@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140702144139.894251516@sgi.com>

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> Recovery may free inodes that end up on the inode
> reclaim RCU. If recovery fails, we leak these inodes.
> The filesystem should be in forced shutdown at this
> point, so a call to xfs_reclaim_inode is a fast path
> to freeing the inodes and RCU entries.

I haven't really started reviewing the series, but your terminology
here seems wrong.  RCU is just a way to synchronize updates - do you
mean inodes are marked as reclaimable in the radix tree?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-09  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-02 14:32 [PATCH 0/5] Misc controversial patches Mark Tinguely
2014-07-02 14:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] xfs: remove efi from AIL in log recovery Mark Tinguely
2014-07-07 14:30   ` Brian Foster
2014-07-07 15:29     ` Mark Tinguely
2014-07-07 23:44       ` Dave Chinner
2014-07-02 14:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] xfs: free the EFI entries from AIL on forced shutdown Mark Tinguely
2014-07-02 14:32 ` [PATCH 3/5] xfs: free the list of recovery items on error Mark Tinguely
2014-07-02 14:32 ` [PATCH 4/5] xfs: free inodes on log recovery error Mark Tinguely
2014-07-07 14:30   ` Brian Foster
2014-07-07 15:18     ` Mark Tinguely
2014-07-09  9:02   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-07-02 14:32 ` [PATCH 5/5] xfs: fix cil push sequence after log recovery Mark Tinguely
2014-07-07 15:26   ` Brian Foster

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