From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/6] rxrpc, afs: Interruptibility fixes
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:28:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200319.202855.777232170285897789.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <158461880968.3094720.5019510060910604912.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:53:29 +0000
> Here are a number of fixes for AF_RXRPC and AFS that make AFS system calls
> less interruptible and so less likely to leave the filesystem in an
> uncertain state. There's also a miscellaneous patch to make tracing
> consistent.
>
> (1) Firstly, abstract out the Tx space calculation in sendmsg. Much the
> same code is replicated in a number of places that subsequent patches
> are going to alter, including adding another copy.
>
> (2) Fix Tx interruptibility by allowing a kernel service, such as AFS, to
> request that a call be interruptible only when waiting for a call slot
> to become available (ie. the call has not taken place yet) or that a
> call be not interruptible at all (e.g. when we want to do writeback
> and don't want a signal interrupting a VM-induced writeback).
>
> (3) Increase the minimum delay on MSG_WAITALL for userspace sendmsg() when
> waiting for Tx buffer space as a 2*RTT delay is really small over 10G
> ethernet and a 1 jiffy timeout might be essentially 0 if at the end of
> the jiffy period.
>
> (4) Fix some tracing output in AFS to make it consistent with rxrpc.
>
> (5) Make sure aborted asynchronous AFS operations are tidied up properly
> so we don't end up with stuck rxrpc calls.
>
> (6) Make AFS client calls uninterruptible in the Rx phase. If we don't
> wait for the reply to be fully gathered, we can't update the local VFS
> state and we end up in an indeterminate state with respect to the
> server.
>
> The patches are tagged here:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git
> rxrpc-fixes-20200319
Pulled, thanks David.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-20 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-19 11:53 [PATCH net 0/6] rxrpc, afs: Interruptibility fixes David Howells
2020-03-19 11:53 ` [PATCH net 1/6] rxrpc: Abstract out the calculation of whether there's Tx space David Howells
2020-03-19 11:53 ` [PATCH net 2/6] rxrpc: Fix call interruptibility handling David Howells
2020-03-19 11:53 ` [PATCH net 3/6] rxrpc: Fix sendmsg(MSG_WAITALL) handling David Howells
2020-03-19 11:53 ` [PATCH net 4/6] afs: Fix some tracing details David Howells
2020-03-19 11:54 ` [PATCH net 5/6] afs: Fix handling of an abort from a service handler David Howells
2020-03-19 11:54 ` [PATCH net 6/6] afs: Fix client call Rx-phase signal handling David Howells
2020-03-20 3:28 ` David Miller [this message]
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