Re: [PATCH 0/4] cleancache: remove limit on the number of cleancache enabled filesystems
From: Vladimir Davydov
Date: Thu Mar 05 2015 - 11:46:59 EST
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:22:30PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 01:34:06PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:12:22AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > Thank you for posting these patches. I was wondering if you had
> > > run through some of the different combinations that you can
> > > load the filesystems/tmem drivers in random order? The #4 patch
> > > deleted a nice chunk of documentation that outlines the different
> > > combinations.
> >
> > Yeah, I admit the synchronization between cleancache_register_ops and
> > cleancache_init_fs is far not obvious. I should have updated the comment
> > instead of merely dropping it, sorry. What about the following patch
> > proving correctness of register_ops-vs-init_fs synchronization? It is
> > meant to be applied incrementally on top of patch #4.
>
> Just fold it in please. But more importantly - I was wondering if you
> had run throught the different combinations it outlines?
Ah, you mean testing - I misunderstood you at first, sorry.
Of course, I checked that a cleancache backend module works fine no
matter if it is loaded before or after a filesystem is mounted. However,
I used our own cleancache driver for testing (we are trying to use
cleancache for containers).
To be 100% sure that I did not occasionally break anything, today I
installed XenServer on my test machine, enabled tmem both in dom0 and
domU, and ran through all possible sequences of tmem load vs fs
mount/use/unmount described in the old comment.
Thanks,
Vladimir
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