[Cluster-devel] [GFS2 PATCH] GFS2: Wake up io waiters whenever a flush is done

[Bob Peterson]

Hi,

Before this patch, if a process called function gfs2_log_reserve to
reserve some journal blocks, but the journal not enough blocks were
free, it would call io_schedule. However, in the log flush daemon,
it woke up the waiters only if an gfs2_ail_flush was no longer
required. This resulted in situations where processes would wait
forever because the number of blocks required was so high that it
pushed the journal into a perpetual state of flush being required.

This patch changes the logd daemon so that it wakes up io waiters
every time the log is actually flushed.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso at redhat.com>
---
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/log.c b/fs/gfs2/log.c
index 4df349c..5028a9d 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/log.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/log.c
@@ -918,12 +918,15 @@ int gfs2_logd(void *data)
 	struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = data;
 	unsigned long t = 1;
 	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
+	bool did_flush;
 
 	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
 
+		did_flush = false;
 		if (gfs2_jrnl_flush_reqd(sdp) || t == 0) {
 			gfs2_ail1_empty(sdp);
 			gfs2_log_flush(sdp, NULL, NORMAL_FLUSH);
+			did_flush = true;
 		}
 
 		if (gfs2_ail_flush_reqd(sdp)) {
@@ -931,9 +934,10 @@ int gfs2_logd(void *data)
 			gfs2_ail1_wait(sdp);
 			gfs2_ail1_empty(sdp);
 			gfs2_log_flush(sdp, NULL, NORMAL_FLUSH);
+			did_flush = true;
 		}
 
-		if (!gfs2_ail_flush_reqd(sdp))
+		if (!gfs2_ail_flush_reqd(sdp) || did_flush)
 			wake_up(&sdp->sd_log_waitq);
 
 		t = gfs2_tune_get(sdp, gt_logd_secs) * HZ;