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From: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Always reset btree cursor after an insert
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:42:28 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <485B0B04.80808@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080619083544.GA19606@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:17:15PM +1000, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
>> After a btree insert operation a cursor can be invalid due to block
>> splits and a maybe a new root block.  We reset the cursor in
>> xfs_bmbt_insert() in the cases where we think we need to but it
>> isn't enough as we still see assertions.  Just do what we do elsewhere
>> and reset the cursor unconditionally.  Version 2 adds
>> XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO checks throughout xfs_bmap.c and removes the
>> fix to revalidate the original cursor in xfs_bmbt_insert().
> 
> Can you commit the XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO checks as a separate patch
> before the cursor reset?  ACK from me for those hunks.
> 

Yeah, no problem, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-20  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-19  6:17 [PATCH V2] Always reset btree cursor after an insert Lachlan McIlroy
2008-06-19  8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-20  1:42   ` Lachlan McIlroy [this message]
2008-06-20  3:37     ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-20  7:35       ` Lachlan McIlroy

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