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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org,
	vdavydov.dev@gmail.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com, guro@fb.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] writeback, memcg: Implement foreign dirty flushing
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:04:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190821160430.GL2263813@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190821160037.GK2263813@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com>

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 09:00:37AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > 2) When you invalidate frn entry here by writing 0 to 'at', it's likely to get
> > reused soon. Possibly while the writeback is still running. And then you
> > won't start any writeback for the new entry because of the
> > atomic_read(&frn->done.cnt) == 1 check. This seems like it could happen
> > pretty frequently?
> 
> Hmm... yeah, the clearing might not make sense.  I'll remove that.

Oh, the reuse logic checks whether done.cnt == 1 and only reuse if no
writeback is still in flight, so this one should be fine.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-21 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-15 19:56 [PATCHSET v2] writeback, memcg: Implement foreign inode flushing Tejun Heo
2019-08-15 19:57 ` [PATCH 1/5] writeback: Generalize and expose wb_completion Tejun Heo
2019-08-15 19:57 ` [PATCH 2/5] bdi: Add bdi->id Tejun Heo
2019-08-15 19:58 ` [PATCH 3/5] writeback: Separate out wb_get_lookup() from wb_get_create() Tejun Heo
2019-08-16 15:45   ` Jan Kara
2019-08-15 19:59 ` [PATCH 4/5] writeback, memcg: Implement cgroup_writeback_by_id() Tejun Heo
2019-08-16 15:47   ` Jan Kara
2019-08-21 21:02   ` [PATCH v3 " Tejun Heo
2019-08-26 13:49     ` Jan Kara
2019-08-15 19:59 ` [PATCH 5/5] writeback, memcg: Implement foreign dirty flushing Tejun Heo
2019-08-16 16:02   ` Jan Kara
2019-08-21 16:00     ` Tejun Heo
2019-08-21 16:04       ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2019-08-21 21:02   ` [PATCH v3 " Tejun Heo
2019-08-26 13:54     ` Jan Kara
2019-08-26 15:58       ` Tejun Heo
2019-08-26 16:06 [PATCHSET v3] writeback, memcg: Implement foreign inode flushing Tejun Heo
2019-08-26 16:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] writeback, memcg: Implement foreign dirty flushing Tejun Heo
2019-08-27 14:47   ` Jan Kara

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