Re: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 28/29] xfs: support nowait semantics for xc_ctx_lock in xlog_cil_commit()

Dave Chinner <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Aug 2023 07:59:43 +1000
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 09:54:30PM +0800, Hao Xu wrote:
> From: Hao Xu <[email protected]>
> 
> Apply trylock logic for xc_ctx_lock in xlog_cil_commit() in nowait
> case and error out -EAGAIN for xlog_cil_commit().

Again, fundamentally broken. Any error from xlog_cil_commit() will
result in a filesystem shutdown as we cannot back out from failure
with dirty log items gracefully at this point.

-Dave.

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