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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: avoid softlockups in s_inodes iterators
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:34:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bed67fc8-641a-18c1-0547-369c75c51508@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191011172927.4d4wnvgd7rfwwr7o@macbook-pro-91.dhcp.thefacebook.com>

On 10/11/19 12:29 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:49:38AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Anything that walks all inodes on sb->s_inodes list without rescheduling
>> risks softlockups.
>>
>> Previous efforts were made in 2 functions, see:
>>
>> c27d82f fs/drop_caches.c: avoid softlockups in drop_pagecache_sb()
>> ac05fbb inode: don't softlockup when evicting inodes
>>
>> but there hasn't been an audit of all walkers, so do that now.  This
>> also consistently moves the cond_resched() calls to the bottom of each
>> loop.
>>
>> One remains: remove_dquot_ref(), because I'm not quite sure how to deal
>> with that one w/o taking the i_lock.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> 
> You've got iput cleanups in here and cond_resched()'s.  I feel like this is a
> missed opportunity to pad your patch count.  Thanks,

yeah, I was going to suggest that I could split it out into 3
(move cond_rescheds, clean up iputs, add new rescheds) if there was a
request.  But it seemed a bit ridiculously granular.  Find by me
if desired, tho.

So, was that a request?

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-11 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-11 16:49 [PATCH] fs: avoid softlockups in s_inodes iterators Eric Sandeen
2019-10-11 17:29 ` Josef Bacik
2019-10-11 17:34   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2019-10-11 17:35     ` Josef Bacik
2019-10-11 18:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-10-11 18:45   ` Eric Sandeen
2019-10-11 21:14     ` Eric Sandeen
2019-10-12  4:29       ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-14  8:46 ` Jan Kara

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