On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 16:28 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > When the underlying inode buffer is locked and xfs_sync_inode_attr() > is doing a non-blocking flush, xfs_iflush() can return EAGAIN. When > this happenÑ, clear the error rather than returning it to > xfs_inode_ag_walk(), as returning EAGAIN will result in the AG walk > delaying for a short while and trying again. This can result in > background walks getting stuck on the one AG until inode buffer is > unlocked by some other means. > > This behaviour was noticed when analysing event traces followed by > code inspection and verification of the fix via further traces. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Looks good. Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
