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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] writeback: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:21:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180910232157.GC5631@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180910115127.GA29088@quack2.suse.cz>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 01:51:27PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Fri 22-06-18 13:09:41, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> > 
> > We've recently seen a workload on XFS filesystems with a repeatable
> > deadlock between background writeback and a multi-process
> > application doing concurrent writes and fsyncs to a small range of a
> > file.
> 
> Going through some old email and this didn't seem to be merged yet?
> FWIW I agree with your solution and the patch looks good to me. Feel free
> to add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> 
> and then send it to AKPM for inclusion.

Thanks, Jan. I'll resend it and get it moving.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

      reply	other threads:[~2018-09-11  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-22  3:09 [PATCH] [RFC] writeback: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock Dave Chinner
2018-06-22 14:41 ` Brian Foster
2018-06-25 22:27   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-26 11:28     ` Brian Foster
2018-06-22 15:14 ` Chris Mason
2018-06-25 22:37   ` Dave Chinner
2018-09-10 11:51 ` Jan Kara
2018-09-10 23:21   ` Dave Chinner [this message]

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