On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:33:23PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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>
This patch looks good, thanks Eric :)
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@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)
>
>
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--
Carlos
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