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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/18] xfs: page type check in writeback only checks last buffer
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:15:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8C45A1.1090200@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334319061-12968-5-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On 04/13/12 07:10, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> xfs_is_delayed_page() checks to see if a page has buffers matching
> the given IO type passed in. It does so by walking the buffer heads
> on the page and checking if the state flags match the IO type.
>
> However, the "acceptable" variable that is calculated is overwritten
> every time a new buffer is checked. Hence if the first buffer on the
> page is of the right type, this state is lost if the second buffer
> is not of the correct type. This means that xfs_aops_discard_page()
> may not discard delalloc regions when it is supposed to, and
> xfs_convert_page() may not cluster IO as efficiently as possible.
>
> This problem only occurs on filesystems with a block size smaller
> than page size.
>
> Also, rename xfs_is_delayed_page() to xfs_check_page_type() to
> better describe what it is doing - it is not delalloc specific
> anymore.
>
> The problem was first noticed by Peter Watkins.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---
>   fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c |   12 ++++++------
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> index 0783def..2fc12db 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ xfs_map_at_offset(
>    * or delayed allocate extent.
>    */
>   STATIC int
> -xfs_is_delayed_page(
> +xfs_check_page_type(
>   	struct page		*page,
>   	unsigned int		type)
>   {
> @@ -637,11 +637,11 @@ xfs_is_delayed_page(
>   		bh = head = page_buffers(page);
>   		do {
>   			if (buffer_unwritten(bh))
> -				acceptable = (type == IO_UNWRITTEN);
> +				acceptable += (type == IO_UNWRITTEN);
>   			else if (buffer_delay(bh))
> -				acceptable = (type == IO_DELALLOC);
> +				acceptable += (type == IO_DELALLOC);
>   			else if (buffer_dirty(bh)&&  buffer_mapped(bh))
> -				acceptable = (type == IO_OVERWRITE);
> +				acceptable += (type == IO_OVERWRITE);
>   			else
>   				break;

Looks good.

Could short-cut and return 1 on the first acceptable buffer rather than 
scanning the entire too.

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>

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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-13 12:10 [PATCH 0/18] xfs: current patch queue Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 01/18] xfs: Ensure inode reclaim can run during quotacheck Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 18:01   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-29 21:37   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 02/18] xfs: pass shutdown method into xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 17:40   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-13 23:04     ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 23:38       ` [PATCH 02/18 V2] " Dave Chinner
2012-04-16 18:49         ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 03/18] xfs: Do background CIL flushes via a workqueue Dave Chinner
2012-04-17 17:54   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-17 21:21   ` Ben Myers
2012-04-17 21:49     ` Ben Myers
2012-04-18  1:47       ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-30  1:24         ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-30  6:09           ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-18  1:58     ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 04/18] xfs: page type check in writeback only checks last buffer Dave Chinner
2012-04-16 16:15   ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2012-04-29 21:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-30  0:29     ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 05/18] xfs: Use preallocation for inodes with extsz hints Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 16:45   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-16 15:59   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 06/18] xfs: fix buffer lookup race on allocation failure Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 18:32   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 07/18] xfs: check for buffer errors before waiting Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 17:56   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 08/18] xfs: fix incorrect b_offset initialisation Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 09/18] xfs: use kmem_zone_zalloc for buffers Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 10/18] xfs: clean up buffer get/read call API Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 11/18] xfs: kill b_file_offset Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 12/18] xfs: use blocks for counting length of buffers Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 13/18] xfs: use blocks for storing the desired IO size Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 14/18] xfs: kill xfs_buf_btoc Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 15/18] xfs: kill XBF_LOCK Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 21:20   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-13 12:10 ` [PATCH 16/18] xfs: kill xfs_read_buf() Dave Chinner
2012-04-13 12:11 ` [PATCH 17/18] xfs: kill XBF_DONTBLOCK Dave Chinner
2012-04-16 14:34   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-13 12:11 ` [PATCH 18/18] xfs: use iolock on XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP calls Dave Chinner
2012-04-16 15:10   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-16 21:29 ` [PATCH 0/18] xfs: current patch queue Ben Myers
2012-04-17  4:12   ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-17 14:44     ` Ben Myers

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