From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: block allocations for the refcount btree
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:48:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160213074827.GA11543@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160213023310.GC14668@dastard>
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 01:33:10PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > allocate an extent (or rather just a single block) in xfs_alloc_ag_vextent
> > as called from xfs_refcountbt_alloc_block. The reservation helps us to
> > ensure this block is always available, but we still need to account for
> > that in xfs_trans_reserve(), which we currently don't do for itruncate
> > transactions.
>
> Ok, so we may have two different issues with a similar failure
> symptom. As it is, I don't think this is a show stopper - we're
> expecting to find these sorts of issues as we go along (hence the
> experimental tag on the feature) and I think, at this point, getting
> review and an initial merge done is more important...
This triggers 100% reproducible over NFS, and as outlined I'm
also pretty sure about the root cause. I don't think this is something
to be ignored.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-13 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-10 9:30 block allocations for the refcount btree Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-10 9:50 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-02-10 19:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-10 21:40 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-11 14:09 ` Brian Foster
2016-02-11 20:21 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-12 19:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-13 2:33 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-13 4:44 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-02-13 8:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-13 7:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-02-14 0:21 ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-01 18:18 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-03-01 20:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-02 5:24 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-03-02 9:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-02 16:41 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-03-02 16:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-02 21:21 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-03-03 14:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-04 1:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
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