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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, jlayton@kernel.org,
	amir73il@gmail.com, sargun@sargun.me, miklos@szeredi.hu,
	jack@suse.cz, neilb@suse.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] overlayfs: Report writeback errors on upper
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:20:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201222162027.GJ874@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201221195055.35295-4-vgoyal@redhat.com>

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 02:50:55PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> +static int ovl_errseq_check_advance(struct super_block *sb, struct file *file)
> +{
> +	struct ovl_fs *ofs = sb->s_fs_info;
> +	struct super_block *upper_sb;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (!ovl_upper_mnt(ofs))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	upper_sb = ovl_upper_mnt(ofs)->mnt_sb;
> +
> +	if (!errseq_check(&upper_sb->s_wb_err, file->f_sb_err))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	/* Something changed, must use slow path */
> +	spin_lock(&file->f_lock);
> +	ret = errseq_check_and_advance(&upper_sb->s_wb_err, &file->f_sb_err);
> +	spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);

Why are you microoptimising syncfs()?  Are there really applications which
call syncfs() in a massively parallel manner on the same file descriptor?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-22 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-21 19:50 [RFC PATCH 0/3][v3] vfs, overlayfs: Fix syncfs() to return correct errors Vivek Goyal
2020-12-21 19:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] vfs: Do not ignore return code from s_op->sync_fs Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22  1:23   ` NeilBrown
2020-12-22 15:17     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-21 19:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] vfs: Add a super block operation to check for writeback errors Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 16:19   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-22 16:25     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-23 12:44       ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-23 12:48   ` Jeff Layton
2021-01-04 19:41     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-21 19:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] overlayfs: Report writeback errors on upper Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 16:20   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-12-22 16:29     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 17:46       ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-22 17:55         ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-23 12:53           ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-23 18:20   ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-23 18:50     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-23 19:29       ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-23 20:07         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-23 20:21           ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-23 20:44             ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-24  9:32               ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-24 10:12                 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-24 12:13                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-25  6:50                   ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-28 13:25                     ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-28 15:51                       ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-04 15:51                         ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-28 15:56                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-28 17:26                         ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-28 19:25                           ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-28 19:37                           ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-28 20:48                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-02 13:25                               ` Jeff Layton
2021-01-04 16:59                         ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-04 15:14                 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-04 15:22                   ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-04 15:40                     ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-04 21:42                       ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-04 22:44                         ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-05  7:11                           ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-05 16:26                             ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-05 16:57                               ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-23 19:00     ` Jeff Layton
2021-01-04 20:00     ` Vivek Goyal

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