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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] xfs: improve handling of busy extents in the low-level allocator
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 10:56:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170204095606.GC18472@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170203162243.GF45388@bfoster.bfoster>

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 11:22:43AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> I didn't catch this until looking through everything after the next
> patch, but I think there's a problem with the wakeup here as well. If we
> have a busy extent with XFS_EXTENT_BUSY_SKIP_DISCARD set, we immediately
> issue a wake from the first xfs_extent_busy_clear() in the cil committed
> handler, regardless of whether !SKIP_DISCARD extents exist as well
> under the current gen value. I think that means we'd get a premature
> wake any time a busy_list has at least one of each type..?

We'll need to wake as soon as a previously busy extent in the AG
becomes available, and that includes  XFS_EXTENT_BUSY_SKIP_DISCARD
ones.  Otherwise e.g. a transaction only containing
XFS_EXTENT_BUSY_SKIP_DISCARD will never wake at all.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-04  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-29 18:43 improve busy extent handling and add async discard support Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-29 18:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: don't fail xfs_extent_busy allocation Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-03 15:20   ` Brian Foster
2017-02-04  9:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-06 16:43       ` Brian Foster
2017-02-07  9:42         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-29 18:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: improve handling of busy extents in the low-level allocator Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-03 15:22   ` Brian Foster
2017-02-04  9:54     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-03 16:22   ` Brian Foster
2017-02-04  9:56     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-02-06 16:47       ` Brian Foster
2017-02-07  9:43         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-07 13:13           ` Brian Foster
2017-02-07 15:45             ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-29 18:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: improve busy extent sorting Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-03 15:22   ` Brian Foster
2017-02-04  9:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-29 18:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: don't block the log commit handler for discards Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-03 16:22   ` Brian Foster
2017-02-04  9:59     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-06 16:49       ` Brian Foster
2017-02-07  9:50         ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-02-05 17:11 improve busy extent handling and add async discard support V2 Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-05 17:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: improve handling of busy extents in the low-level allocator Christoph Hellwig

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