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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: remove the m_active_trans counter
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 00:17:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200520071712.GB7008@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200520071339.GW2040@dread.disaster.area>

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 05:13:39PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > @@ -883,9 +885,7 @@ xfs_quiesce_attr(
> > >  {
> > >  	int	error = 0;
> > >  
> > > -	/* wait for all modifications to complete */
> > > -	while (atomic_read(&mp->m_active_trans) > 0)
> > > -		delay(100);
> > > +	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&mp->m_log->l_work);
> > 
> > Shouldn't the cancel_delayed_work_sync for l_work in xfs_log_quiesce
> > be removed now given that we've already cancelled it here?
> 
> No, because every other caller of xfs_log_quiesce() requires the
> work to be cancelled before the log is quiesced.

The only other caller is xfs_log_unmount, which could grow it.  But
I guess an extra cancel isn't harmful in the end.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-20  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19 22:23 [PATCH 0/2 v3] xfs: improve transaction rate scalability Dave Chinner
2020-05-19 22:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: separate read-only variables in struct xfs_mount Dave Chinner
2020-05-20  6:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20  7:12     ` Dave Chinner
2020-05-20  9:43   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-05-20 20:44   ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-05-19 22:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: remove the m_active_trans counter Dave Chinner
2020-05-20  7:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20  7:13     ` Dave Chinner
2020-05-20  7:17       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-05-20 20:47   ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-05-20 21:51     ` Dave Chinner

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