Re: [PATCH 5/7] xfs: add configuration of error failure speed

Carlos Maiolino
2016-05-06T10:59:55Z

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 10:04:33AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 05:43:18PM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> > On reception of an error, we can fail immediately, perform some
> > bound amount of retries or retry indefinitely. The current behaviour
> > we have is to retry forever.
> >
> > However, we'd like the ability to choose how long the filesystem should try
> > after an error, it can either fail immediately, retry a few times, or retry
> > forever. This is implemented by using max_retries sysfs attribute, to hold the
> > amount of times we allow the filesystem to retry after an error. Being -1 a
> > special case where the filesystem will retry indefinitely.
> >
> > Add both a maximum retry count and a retry timeout so that we can bound by
> > time and/or physical IO attempts.
> >
> > Finally, plumb these into xfs_buf_iodone error processing so that
> > the error behaviour follows the selected configuration.
> >
> > Changelog:
> >
> > V3:
> > - In xfs_buf_iodone_callback_error, use max_retries to decide how long
> > the filesystem should retry on errors instead of XFS_ERR_FAIL enums
> > and fail_speed
> >
> > - Remove all code implementing fail_speed attribute from the original
> > patch
> > -- failure_speed_show/store attributes function implementation
> > -- max_retries_store() now accepts values from -1 up to INT_MAX
> >
> > - retry_timeout_seconds_show() print fixed:
> > -- jiffies_to_msecs() should be divided by MSEC_PER_SEC
> > -- trailing whitespace removed
>
> Where's XFS_ERR_RETRY_FOREVER?

Hi, I didn't understand you literally meant to have XFS_ERR_RETRY_FOREVER macro
implemented, sorry about that, I'll implement it, add fail_at_unmount to
<dev>/error and re-send the patchset

>
> > @@ -1095,8 +1098,12 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callback_error(
> > * Repeated failure on an async write. Take action according to the
> > * error configuration we have been set up to use.
> > */
> > - if (!cfg->max_retries)
> > - goto permanent_error;
> > + if ((cfg->max_retries >= 0) &&
> > + (++bp->b_retries > cfg->max_retries))
> > + goto permanent_error;
>
> I suggested:
>
> if (cfg->max_retries != XFS_ERR_RETRY_FOREVER &&
> ++bp->b_retries > cfg->max_retries)
> goto permanent_error;
>
> so that we document that there is a "retry forever" case being
> handled here. I really don't like magic "-1", ">= 0" or other
> implicit comparisions that don't document that it is valid to retry
> forever in these cases.
>
> > + if (cfg->retry_timeout &&
> > + time_after(jiffies, cfg->retry_timeout + bp->b_first_retry_time))
> > + goto permanent_error;
> >
> > /* still a transient error, higher layers will retry */
> > xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, 0);
> > @@ -1139,6 +1146,7 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks(
> > * retry state here in preparation for the next error that may occur.
> > */
> > bp->b_last_error = 0;
> > + bp->b_retries = 0;
> >
> > xfs_buf_do_callbacks(bp);
> > bp->b_fspriv = NULL;
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> > index 0c5a976..0382140 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> > @@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ enum {
> >
> > struct xfs_error_cfg {
> > struct xfs_kobj kobj;
> > - int max_retries;
> > + int max_retries; /* -1 = retry forever */
>
> as per my last review, remove the comment, add XFS_ERR_RETRY_FOREVER
> to document that "-1 = retry forever" and use that in the code so
> it's explicit that the code is intended to handle this case.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com
>
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Carlos