From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] EXT4: Remove ENOMEM/congestion_wait() loops.
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 20:28:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUE+L19JyjqWh+Md@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <163157838437.13293.14244628630141187199.stgit@noble.brown>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:13:04AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> Of particular interest is the ext4_journal_start family of calls which
> can now have EXT4_EX_NOFAIL 'or'ed in to the 'type'. This could be seen
> as a blurring of types. However 'type' is 8 bits, and EXT4_EX_NOFAIL is
> a high bit, so it is safe in practice.
I'm really not fond of this type blurring. What I'd suggeset doing
instead is adding a "gfp_t gfp_mask" parameter to the
__ext4_journal_start_sb(). With the exception of one call site in
fs/ext4/ialloc.c, most of the callers of __ext4_journal_start_sb() are
via #define helper macros or inline funcions. So it would just
require adding a GFP_NOFS as an extra parameter to the various macros
and inline functions which call __ext4_journal_start_sb() in
ext4_jbd2.h.
The function ext4_journal_start_with_revoke() is called exactly once
so we could just bury the __GFP_NOFAIL in the definition of that
macros, e.g.:
#define ext4_journal_start_with_revoke(inode, type, blocks, revoke_creds) \
__ext4_journal_start((inode), __LINE__, (type), (blocks), 0, \
GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL, (revoke_creds))
but it's probably better to do something like this:
#define ext4_journal_start_with_revoke(gfp_mask, inode, type, blocks, revoke_creds) \
__ext4_journal_start((inode), __LINE__, (type), (blocks), 0, \
gfp_mask, (revoke_creds))
So it's explicit in the C function ext4_ext_remove_space() in
fs/ext4/extents.c that we are explicitly requesting the __GFP_NOFAIL
behavior.
Does that make sense?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-14 0:13 [PATCH 0/6] congestion_wait() and GFP_NOFAIL NeilBrown
2021-09-14 0:13 ` [PATCH 2/6] MM: annotate congestion_wait() and wait_iff_congested() as ineffective NeilBrown
2021-09-15 11:56 ` Michal Hocko
2021-09-16 22:13 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-14 0:13 ` [PATCH 5/6] XFS: remove congestion_wait() loop from kmem_alloc() NeilBrown
2021-09-14 1:31 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-14 3:27 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-14 6:05 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-14 0:13 ` [PATCH 3/6] EXT4: Remove ENOMEM/congestion_wait() loops NeilBrown
2021-09-14 16:34 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-14 21:48 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-15 12:06 ` Michal Hocko
2021-09-15 22:35 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-16 0:37 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-16 6:52 ` Michal Hocko
2021-09-14 23:55 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-15 8:59 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-15 12:20 ` Michal Hocko
2021-09-15 14:35 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-15 22:38 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-16 9:00 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-15 0:28 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2021-09-15 5:25 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-15 17:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-14 0:13 ` [PATCH 1/6] MM: improve documentation for __GFP_NOFAIL NeilBrown
2021-09-15 11:51 ` Michal Hocko
2021-09-14 0:13 ` [PATCH 6/6] XFS: remove congestion_wait() loop from xfs_buf_alloc_pages() NeilBrown
2021-09-14 2:08 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-14 2:35 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-14 5:33 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-14 16:45 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-14 21:13 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-14 0:13 ` [PATCH 4/6] EXT4: remove congestion_wait from ext4_bio_write_page, and simplify NeilBrown
2021-09-17 2:56 [PATCH 0/6 v2] congestion_wait() and GFP_NOFAIL NeilBrown
2021-09-17 2:56 ` [PATCH 3/6] EXT4: Remove ENOMEM/congestion_wait() loops NeilBrown
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