[PATCH 3/3] xfs: cancel COW in xfs_cancel_ioend
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Thu Jan 7 09:25:42 CST 2016
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 04:32:27PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Ok. I spent a couple of days trying to find all the places where we need to
> delete CoW reservations (hole punch, truncate, etc.) and found some places
> where the code was leaving reservations behind in the CoW fork (most notable
> truncate). I also made the inode eviction code purge any CoW leftovers, so
> that should all go away.
Can you send that part out for NFS testing?
> I also wrote some more xfstests that try to hit all the CoW-cancelling code
> paths (fpunch, fzero, fcollapse, finsert, truncate, -EIO) to smoke test all
> that. By the way, do you have a testcase handy for the "non-blocking writeback
> EAGAIN" case? I'm guessing that we could hit that pretty easily by lowering
> dirty_background_* and dirtying a lot of pages while reflinking?
I did hit it pretty easily testing over NFS to a local nfs server with
xfstests.
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