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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Hongyi Jia <jiayisuse@gmail.com>,
	ceph-devel <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>,
	"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>,
	"linux-cachefs@redhat.com" <linux-cachefs@redhat.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] new fscache interface to check cache consistency
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:26:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18284.1378315570@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANP1eJFKGD_h6rcWMWpxp3yOD+rz6p2P0B+2CTcy1taDwM9rdg@mail.gmail.com>

Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com> wrote:

> If the cache is withdrawn and we're starting anew I would consider
> that to okay. I would consider an empty page cache for a cookie to be
> consistent since there's nothing stale that I can read. Unless there's
> another synchronization issue that I'm missing in fscache.

The problem is that the fscache_object struct may be deallocated whilst you're
using it.

David

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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-cachefs@redhat.com" <linux-cachefs@redhat.com>,
	"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>,
	ceph-devel <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] new fscache interface to check cache consistency
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:26:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18284.1378315570@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANP1eJFKGD_h6rcWMWpxp3yOD+rz6p2P0B+2CTcy1taDwM9rdg@mail.gmail.com>

Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com> wrote:

> If the cache is withdrawn and we're starting anew I would consider
> that to okay. I would consider an empty page cache for a cookie to be
> consistent since there's nothing stale that I can read. Unless there's
> another synchronization issue that I'm missing in fscache.

The problem is that the fscache_object struct may be deallocated whilst you're
using it.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-04 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-21 21:26 [PATCHv4 0/5] ceph: persistent caching with fscache Milosz Tanski
2013-08-21 21:29 ` [PATCH 1/5] new cachefiles interface to check cache consistency Hongyi Jia
2013-08-21 21:29 ` [PATCH 2/5] new fscache " Hongyi Jia
2013-08-21 21:29 ` [PATCH 3/5] ceph: use fscache as a local presisent cache Milosz Tanski
2013-08-21 21:29   ` Milosz Tanski
2013-08-27  1:05   ` Sage Weil
2013-08-21 21:30 ` [PATCH 4/5] fscache: netfs function for cleanup post readpages Milosz Tanski
2013-09-03 17:24   ` Milosz Tanski
2013-08-21 21:30 ` [PATCH 5/5] ceph: clean PgPrivate2 on returning from readpages Milosz Tanski
2013-08-22  5:05 ` [PATCHv4 0/5] ceph: persistent caching with fscache Sage Weil
2013-08-22  5:05   ` Sage Weil
2013-08-22 12:58   ` Milosz Tanski
2013-08-22 12:58     ` Milosz Tanski
2013-09-04 15:49 ` David Howells
2013-09-04 15:49   ` David Howells
2013-09-04 15:54   ` Sage Weil
2013-09-04 15:54     ` Sage Weil
2013-09-04 16:25     ` Sage Weil
2013-09-04 16:25       ` Sage Weil
2013-09-05 12:34     ` David Howells
2013-09-04 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/5] new fscache interface to check cache consistency David Howells
2013-09-04 16:24   ` David Howells
2013-09-04 16:48   ` Milosz Tanski
2013-09-04 17:26   ` David Howells [this message]
2013-09-04 17:26     ` David Howells
2013-09-04 18:04     ` Milosz Tanski
2013-09-04 18:13     ` David Howells
2013-09-04 18:13       ` David Howells
2013-09-04 19:41       ` Milosz Tanski
2013-09-04 22:02         ` Milosz Tanski

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