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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clear PageError bit in msync & fsync
On 11/09/2010 03:24 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 11/09/2010 04:21 PM, Zan Lynx wrote:
>> On 11/9/10 12:33 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>> On 11/09/2010 02:21 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>
>>>> This does leave the page in sort of a funky state. The uptodate bit
>>>> will still probably be set, but the dirty bit won't be. The page will
>>>> be effectively "disconnected" from the backing store until someone
>>>> writes to it.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose though that this is the best that can reasonably be done in
>>>> this situation however...
>>>
>>> I spent a few days looking for alternatives, and indeed I found
>>> nothing better...
>>
>> Just an off the top of my head crazy idea...
>>
>> Could you leave the error bit set on the page and treat it as a dirty
>> bit during a future msync, clearing the error bit at that point.
>>
>> The general idea would be to leave the error set unless an explicit
>> write was requested.
>
> The problem with that is that the page will be unreclaimable,
> and the VM could get filled with PageError pages and be unable
> to make further progress (if the IO path does not come back).

As a further crazy idea ;) what if it only persisted for "X" write
attempts? Maybe (sigh) a tunable?

That way several fsyncs get the chance to see it, but eventually
enough writebacks will go off to give up and clear it. Hacky,
but an idea ...

-Eric


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