On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 04:21:59PM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > Hi, > > This is something I was thinking while working on that buffer retry stuff. > > Currently, we have no way to force xfsaild to run, and I was wondering if > somebody has any opinion if it would be useful to create a new xfsctl, to start > xfsaild for debugging purposes, using xfs_io to trigger it. > > My specific use case is while testing the code I've been working on for the > buffer retry stuff, where, I need to wait xfsaild to run to trigger the bug, > adding a way to force it, in this case at least, would be useful for me, I could > work on that, but only if somebody else can actually think this to be > interesting, adding a new xfsctl just for 'me' does not sound worth the time :) > > Anybody else might have interest on it or maybe this is just a waste of time? "Run" the xfsaild as in 'push all the AIL items out to disk'? I think xfs_freeze -f (followed immediately by xfs_freeze -u) will push the AIL as part of the freezing process... though that might be more work than you're looking for...? --D > > Cheers > > -- > Carlos > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
