From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Gang He <ghe@suse.com>, mark@fasheh.com, jlbec@evilplan.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: avoid getting dlm lock of the target directory multiple times during reflink process
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 19:14:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41bc413d-0926-0eae-6772-076314bbae53@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210826075941.28480-1-ghe@suse.com>
Hi Gang,
On 8/26/21 3:59 PM, Gang He wrote:
> During the reflink process, we should acquire the target directory
> inode dlm lock at the beginning, and hold this dlm lock until end
> of the function.
> With this patch, we avoid dlm lock ping-pong effect when clone
> files to the same directory simultaneously from multiple nodes.
> There is a typical user scenario, users regularly back up files
> to a specified directory through the reflink feature from the
> multiple nodes.
>
Since now it take dir inode lock across the whole reflink, it may impact
other concurrent operations under the same directory.
Have you evaluated such cases?
Thanks,
Joseph
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-26 7:59 [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: avoid getting dlm lock of the target directory multiple times during reflink process Gang He
2021-08-31 6:25 ` Gang He
2021-08-31 7:39 ` Joseph Qi
2021-09-07 15:57 ` Wengang Wang
2021-09-08 6:06 ` Gang He
2021-09-08 16:00 ` Wengang Wang
2021-09-14 7:34 ` Gang He
2021-09-14 17:50 ` Wengang Wang
2021-09-17 7:37 ` Gang He
2021-09-06 11:14 ` Joseph Qi [this message]
2021-09-07 9:40 ` Gang He
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