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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: error propagation problem on xfs over dm stripe
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 06:49:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201144935.GB27071@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170201143351.GA18848@redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 09:33:51AM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > FYI, what we do both in the XFS buffer cache and the new direct I/O
> > code is to use a
> > 
> > 	        cmpxchg(&dio->error, 0, ret);
> > 
> > in a similar situation, which should work here, too.
> 
> What is the benefit?  Faster than the conditional?

In the cases where I added the code the concern is that multiple
bio completions could race updating the flag, cmpxchg is a good
protection against that.  I'll need to take a look at the dm
case Eric reported in more detail to comment on it, though.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-01 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-01  3:12 error propagation problem on xfs over dm stripe Eric Sandeen
2017-02-01  7:42 ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-01 14:33   ` Mike Snitzer
2017-02-01 14:49     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-02-01 10:28 ` [dm-devel] " Junichi Nomura

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