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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pnfs/blocklayout: serialize GETDEVICEINFO calls
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:29:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHQdGtTg8Tc8bRqbezW-ZWrcTJdG233uRTrqQMP5CvxAcjW9Fg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411740170-18611-2-git-send-email-hch@lst.de>

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> The rpc_pipefs code isn't thread safe, leading to occasional use after
> frees when running xfstests generic/241 (dbench).
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/blocklayout/rpc_pipefs.c | 14 +++++++++-----
>  fs/nfs/netns.h                  |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>

It worries me that we're putting a mutex directly in the writeback
path. For small arrays, it might be acceptable, but what if you have a
block device with 1000s of disks on the back end?

Is there no better way to fix this issue?

-- 
Trond Myklebust

Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData

trond.myklebust@primarydata.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-26 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-26 14:02 blocklayout GETDEVICEINFO fix Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-26 14:02 ` [PATCH] pnfs/blocklayout: serialize GETDEVICEINFO calls Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-26 14:29   ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2014-09-26 15:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-26 16:21       ` Trond Myklebust
2014-09-26 16:41         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-10-24 14:29         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-05  8:30           ` Christoph Hellwig

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