On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 3:30 PM Ignat Korchagin <ignat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:39 AM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 10:31 PM Ignat Korchagin <ignat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 7:14 PM Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > [add the xfs lts maintainers] > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 05:34:00PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 05:09:41PM +0100, Daniel Dao wrote: > > > > > > Hi Dave and Derrick, > > > > > > > > > > > > We are tracking down some corruptions on xfs for our rocksdb workload, > > > > > > running on kernel 6.1.25. The corruptions were > > > > > > detected by rocksdb block checksum. The workload seems to share some > > > > > > similarities > > > > > > with the multi-threaded write workload described in > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20221129001632.GX3600936@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > > > > > > > > > Can we backport the patch series to stable since it seemed to fix data > > > > > > corruptions ? > > > > > > > > > > For clarity, are you asking for permission or advice about doing this > > > > > yourself, or are you asking somebody else to do the backport for you? > > > > > > > > Nobody's officially committed to backporting and testing patches for > > > > 6.1; are you (Cloudflare) volunteering? > > > > > > Yes, we have applied them on top of 6.1.36, will be gradually > > > releasing to our servers and will report back if we see the issues go > > > away > > > > > > > Getting feedback back from Cloudflare production servers is awesome > > but it's not enough. > > > > The standard for getting xfs LTS backports approved is: > > 1. Test the backports against regressions with several rounds of fstests > > check -g auto on selected xfs configurations [1] > > 2. Post the backport series to xfs list and get an ACK from upstream > > xfs maintainers > > > > We have volunteers doing this work for 5.4.y, 5.10.y and 5.15.y. > > We do not yet have a volunteer to do that work for 6.1.y. > > > > The question is whether you (or your team) are volunteering to > > do that work for 6.1.y xfs backports to help share the load? > > We are not a big team and apart from other internal project work our > efforts are focused on fixing this issue in production, because it > affects many teams and workloads. If we confirm that these patches fix > the issue in production, we will definitely consider dedicating some > work to ensure they are officially backported. But if not - we would > be required to search for a fix first before we can commit to any > work. > > So, IOW - can we come back to you a bit later on this after we get the > feedback from production? > Of course. The volunteering question for 6.1.y is independent. When you decide that you have a series of backports that proves to fix a real bug in production, a way to test the series will be worked out. Thanks, Amir.
