On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:33:37PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote: > Here is the commit_metadata export_operation for xfs. We take two dentries and > force the log up to the larger lsn. It looks to me that in nfsd the child is > always modified after the parent so generally we expect the child's lsn to be > larger. If that's not the case we'll just force the entire thing. > > The basic form of this is based upon one of Christoph's suggestions. I'm an > xfs newbie so I'm not very comfortable with it yet. My understanding is that I > need to verify that all of the necessary changes make it into the transations > we're forcing into the log here. I am still looking into that and hopefully > the XFS gurus can continue to provide guidance. Ccing the xfs list would help with that :) Anyway, I think it looks pretty good, but there's quite a few smaller nitpicks: > +STATIC int > +xfs_fs_nfs_commit_metadata( > + struct dentry *parent, > + struct dentry *child) > +{ > + struct xfs_inode *p_xip = NULL, *c_xip = NULL; Normal xfs naming would be dp for the parent, and ip for the child, it would be good to stick to that. > + struct xfs_mount *i_mount = NULL; Normal name all over xfs would be mp. > + } else if (parent && child) { > + p_xip = XFS_I(parent->d_inode); > + c_xip = XFS_I(child->d_inode); > + xfs_ilock(p_xip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED); > + xfs_ilock(c_xip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED); If we need to lock both parent and child we need to use xfs_lock_two_inodes to make sure the lock order is correct. > + if (xfs_ipincount(c_xip)) { > + /* > + * AFAICS the child is always modified after the parent > + * in nfsd so should always have a larger lsn. > + */ > + if (c_xip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn > force_lsn) { > + force_lsn = c_xip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn; > + } else { > + force_lsn = 0; /* whole thing */ > + } I wouldn't rely on that and always take the larger one. Now with the simplification of always having a non-zero first argument suggested in the previous mail this might be simplified down to: STATIC int xfs_fs_nfs_commit_metadata( struct dentry *parent, struct dentry *child) { struct xfs_inode *dp = XFS_I(parent->d_inode); struct xfs_inode *ip = NULL; struct xfs_mount *mp = dp->i_mount; xfs_lsn_t force_lsn = 0; int error = 0; if (child) { ip = XFS_I(child->d_inode); xfs_lock_two_inodes(dp, ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED); } else { xfs_ilock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED); } if (xfs_ipincount(dp)) force_lsn = dp->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn; if (ip && xfs_ipincount(ip)) force_lsn = max(force_lsn, ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn); error = _xfs_log_force_lsn(mp, force_lsn, NULL); if (ip) xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED); xfs_iunlock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED); return error; } Note that _xfs_log_force_lsn is new in the XFS tree, mainline still has _xfs_log_force with an lsn argument. Also note that ->commit_metadata probably should take just two inodes instead of two dentires given the level it operates on, but it shouldn't matter too much. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html