On 08/30/12 07:00, Dave Chinner wrote:
+ * Every sync period we need to unpin all items in the AIL and push them to
+ * disk. If there is nothing dirty, then we might need to cover the log to
+ * indicate that the filesystem is idle.
+ */
+void
+xfs_log_worker(
+ struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct xlog *log = container_of(to_delayed_work(work),
+ struct xlog, l_work);
+ struct xfs_mount *mp = log->l_mp;
+
+ /* dgc: errors ignored - not fatal and nowhere to report them */
+ if (xfs_log_need_covered(mp))
+ xfs_fs_log_dummy(mp);
+ else
+ xfs_log_force(mp, 0);
+
+ /* start pushing all the metadata that is currently dirty */
+ xfs_ail_push_all(mp->m_ail);
+
+ /* queue us up again */
+ xfs_log_work_queue(mp);
+}
Having log space for the xfs_fs_log_dummy() is the weak point in the
remaining log hang problems.
I agree with Dave and the above should remain in this series and log
issue handled in another series.
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx>
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