[PATCH 3/8] xfs: initialise xfssync work before running quotachecks

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Thu Mar 22 16:07:23 CDT 2012


On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:15:48AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 04:15:08PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Because the mount process can run a quotacheck and consume lots of
> > inodes, we need to be able to run periodic inode reclaim during the
> > mount process. This will prevent running the system out of memory
> > during quota checks.
> > 
> > This essentially reverts 2bcf6e97, but that is safe to do now that
> > the quota sync code that was causing problems during long quotacheck
> > executions is now gone.
> 
> Dave, I've held off on #s 3 and 4 because they appear to be racy.  Being

What race?

Cheers,

Dave
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Dave Chinner
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