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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch v4 06/13] [PATCH 06/13] xfs: xfs_sync_data is redundant.
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:55:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506F1F21.6000104@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121005171946.330155632@sgi.com>

On 10/05/12 12:18, Ben Myers wrote:
> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> ===================================================================
> --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> @@ -198,7 +198,6 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
>   #endif
>   	struct xfs_mru_cache	*m_filestream;  /* per-mount filestream data */
>   	struct delayed_work	m_reclaim_work;	/* background inode reclaim */
> -	struct work_struct	m_flush_work;	/* background inode flush */
>   	__int64_t		m_update_flags;	/* sb flags we need to update
>   						   on the next remount,rw */
>   	struct shrinker		m_inode_shrink;	/* inode reclaim shrinker */
> @@ -381,6 +380,27 @@ extern int	xfs_dev_is_read_only(struct x
>
>   extern void	xfs_set_low_space_thresholds(struct xfs_mount *);
>
> +/*
> + * Flush all dirty data to disk. Must not be called while holding an XFS_ILOCK
> + * or a page lock.
> + *
> + * We have to hold the s_umount lock here, but because this call can nest
> + * inside i_mutex (the parent directory in the create case, held by the VFS),
> + * we have to use down_read_trylock() to avoid potential deadlocks. In
> + * practice, this trylock will succeed on almost every attempt as
> + * unmount/remount type operations are exceedingly rare.
> + */
> +static inline void
> +xfs_flush_inodes(struct xfs_mount *mp)
> +{
> +	struct super_block *sb = mp->m_super;
> +
> +	if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
> +		sync_inodes_sb(sb);
> +		up_read(&sb->s_umount);
> +	}
> +}
> +


Was this suppose to be in xfs_inode.h? Otherwise....

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-05 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-05 17:18 [patch v4 00/13] xfs: remove the xfssyncd mess Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:18 ` [patch v4 01/13] [PATCH 01/13] xfs: xfs_syncd_stop must die Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:18 ` [patch v4 02/13] [PATCH 02/13] xfs: rationalise xfs_mount_wq users Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:18 ` [patch v4 03/13] [PATCH 03/13] xfs: dont run the sync work if the filesystem is Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:18 ` [patch v4 04/13] [PATCH 04/13] xfs: sync work is now only periodic log work Ben Myers
2012-10-05 18:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-05 18:31     ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-05 17:18 ` [patch v4 05/13] [PATCH 05/13] xfs: Bring some sanity to log unmounting Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:18 ` [patch v4 06/13] [PATCH 06/13] xfs: xfs_sync_data is redundant Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:55   ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2012-10-05 18:04     ` Ben Myers
2012-10-05 18:15       ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-05 18:15       ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-05 17:19 ` [patch v4 07/13] [PATCH 07/13] xfs: syncd workqueue is no more Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:59   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-05 17:19 ` [patch v4 08/13] [PATCH 08/13] xfs: xfs_sync_fsdata is redundant Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:19 ` [patch v4 09/13] [PATCH 09/13] xfs: move xfs_quiesce_attr() into xfs_super.c Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:19 ` [patch v4 10/13] [PATCH 10/13] xfs: xfs_quiesce_attr() should quiesce the log like Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:19 ` [patch v4 11/13] [PATCH 11/13] xfs: rename xfs_sync.[ch] to xfs_icache.[ch] Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:19 ` [patch v4 12/13] [PATCH 12/13] xfs: move inode locking functions to xfs_inode.c Ben Myers
2012-10-05 17:19 ` [patch v4 13/13] [PATCH 13/13] xfs: remove xfs_iget.c Ben Myers
2012-10-06  1:31 ` [patch v4 00/13] xfs: remove the xfssyncd mess Dave Chinner
2012-10-06 17:37   ` Ben Myers
2012-10-08  0:33     ` Dave Chinner

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