On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 08:04 -0500, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
> On 9 Nov 2023, at 12:25, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
>
> > On 9 Nov 2023, at 11:53, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Ben,
> > >
> > > Relying on the value of dreq->bytes_left is just not a good idea,
> > > given
> > > that the layoutget request could end up returning NFS4ERR_DELAY.
> > >
> > > How about something like the following patch?
> >
> > That looks promising! I think ->bytes_left could get dropped after
> > this.
> >
> > I'll send it through some testing and report back, thanks!
>
> This definitely fixes it, sorry for the delay getting back.
>
> Fixes: 954998b60caa ("NFS: Fix error handling for O_DIRECT write
> scheduling")
> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It creates some clear additional work to remove nfs_direct_req-
> >bytes_left
> (I don't think its needed anymore) and fixup the nfs_direct_req_class
> tracepoint, which could be a follow-up patch or get folded in.
>
Thank you! I'll queue that patch up so it gets included in the next
bugfix pull request.
I agree that we should get rid of the bytes_left field. We can queue
something up for that in the next merge window.
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
