Re: [PATCH 08/10] ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers V2

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:05:38 +0200, Jan Kara [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon 24-09-12 15:44:18, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:

quoted

If we have enough aggressive DIO readers, truncate and other dio
waiters will wait forever inside inode_dio_wait(). It is reasonable
to disable nonlock DIO read optimization during truncate.

  Umm, actually this is a problem with any inode_dio_wait() call in ext4,
isn't it? So I'd just create ext4_inode_dio_wait() doing
	ext4_inode_block_unlocked_dio(inode);
	inode_dio_wait(inode);
	ext4_inode_resume_unlocked_dio(inode);

and use it instead of inode_dio_wait().

Ops sorry miss that comment.
Actually all other places are very special, and guarded already: 
1) ext4_ext_punch_hole()
2) ext4_move_extents()
3) ext4_change_inode_journal_flag()
Such functions require explicit scope where nonlocked DIO read should
be disabled. So ext4_setattr() is the only place where we wait for
existing dio, but nonlocked dio reads are allowed and may result in
temporal live-lock.

								Honza
 

quoted

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <redacted>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 32e9701..d3f86e7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c

@@ -4330,9 +4330,13 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 	if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
 		if (attr->ia_size != inode->i_size) {
 			truncate_setsize(inode, attr->ia_size);
-			/* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight */
-			if (orphan)
+			/* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight.
+			 * Temproraly disable unlocked DIO to prevent livelock */

                           ^^ Temporarily

quoted

+			if (orphan) {
+				ext4_inode_block_unlocked_dio(inode);
 				inode_dio_wait(inode);
+				ext4_inode_resume_unlocked_dio(inode);
+			}
 		}
 		ext4_truncate(inode);
 	}
-- 
1.7.7.6

-- 
Jan Kara [off-list ref]
SUSE Labs, CR
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