With the code as it stands today, b_retries never increments because it gets reset to 0 in the error callback. Remove that, and fix a similar problem where the first retry time was constantly being overwritten, which defeated the timeout tunable as well. We now only set first retry time if a non-zero timeout is set, to match the behavior of only incrementing retries if a retry value is set. This way max retries & timeouts consistently take effect after a tunable is set, rather than acting retroactively on a buffer which has failed at some point in the past and has accumulated state from those prior failures. Thanks to dchinner for talking through this with me. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c index 6a2f429..3b19e52 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c @@ -1073,6 +1073,8 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callback_error( trace_xfs_buf_item_iodone_async(bp, _RET_IP_); ASSERT(bp->b_iodone != NULL); + cfg = xfs_error_get_cfg(mp, XFS_ERR_METADATA, bp->b_error); + /* * If the write was asynchronous then no one will be looking for the * error. If this is the first failure of this type, clear the error @@ -1084,8 +1086,8 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callback_error( bp->b_last_error != bp->b_error) { bp->b_flags |= (XBF_WRITE | XBF_DONE | XBF_WRITE_FAIL); bp->b_last_error = bp->b_error; - bp->b_retries = 0; - bp->b_first_retry_time = jiffies; + if (cfg->retry_timeout && !bp->b_first_retry_time) + bp->b_first_retry_time = jiffies; xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, 0); xfs_buf_submit(bp); @@ -1096,7 +1098,6 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callback_error( * Repeated failure on an async write. Take action according to the * error configuration we have been set up to use. */ - cfg = xfs_error_get_cfg(mp, XFS_ERR_METADATA, bp->b_error); if (cfg->max_retries != XFS_ERR_RETRY_FOREVER && ++bp->b_retries > cfg->max_retries) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs