Re: [PATCH 16/26] xfs: synchronous AIL pushing

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On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 02:21:14PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Factor the common AIL deletion code that does all the wakeups into a
> helper so we only have one copy of this somewhat tricky code to
> interface with all the wakeups necessary when the LSN of the log
> tail changes.
> 
> xfs_ail_push_sync() is temporary infrastructure to facilitate
> non-blocking, IO-less inode reclaim throttling that allows further
> structural changes to be made. Once those structural changes are
> made, the need for this function goes away and it is removed,
> leaving us with only the xfs_ail_update_finish() factoring when this
> is all done.

The xfs_ail_update_finish work here is in an earlier patch, so the
changelog will need some updates.

> +	spin_lock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> +	while ((lip = xfs_ail_min(ailp)) != NULL) {
> +		prepare_to_wait(&ailp->ail_push, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> +		if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ailp->ail_mount) ||
> +		    XFS_LSN_CMP(threshold_lsn, lip->li_lsn) <= 0)
> +			break;
> +		/* XXX: cmpxchg? */
> +		while (XFS_LSN_CMP(threshold_lsn, ailp->ail_target) > 0)
> +			xfs_trans_ail_copy_lsn(ailp, &ailp->ail_target, &threshold_lsn);

This code looks broken on 32-bit given that xfs_trans_ail_copy_lsn takes
the ail_lock there.  Just replacing the xfs_trans_ail_copy_lsn call with
a direct assignment would fix that, no need for cmpxchg either as far
as I can tell (and it would fix that too long line as well).

But a:

		while (XFS_LSN_CMP(threshold_lsn, ailp->ail_target) > 0)
			ailp->ail_target = threshold_lsn;

still looks odd, I think this should simply be an if. 

> +		wake_up_process(ailp->ail_task);
> +		spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock);

xfsaild will take ail_lock pretty quickly.  I think we should drop
the lock before waking it.



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