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xfs: don't reset b_retries to 0 on every failure
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With the code as it stands today, b_retries never increments because
it gets reset to 0 in the error callback.

Remove that, and fix a similar problem where the first retry time
was constantly being overwritten, which defeated the timeout tunable
as well.  We now only set first retry time if a non-zero timeout is
set, to match the behavior of only incrementing retries if a retry
value is set.

This way max retries & timeouts consistently take effect after a
tunable is set, rather than acting retroactively on a buffer which
has failed at some point in the past and has accumulated state from
those prior failures.

Thanks to dchinner for talking through this with me.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
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sandeen authored and dchinner committed Jul 20, 2016
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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
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Expand Up @@ -1073,6 +1073,8 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callback_error(
trace_xfs_buf_item_iodone_async(bp, _RET_IP_);
ASSERT(bp->b_iodone != NULL);

cfg = xfs_error_get_cfg(mp, XFS_ERR_METADATA, bp->b_error);

/*
* If the write was asynchronous then no one will be looking for the
* error. If this is the first failure of this type, clear the error
Expand All @@ -1084,8 +1086,8 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callback_error(
bp->b_last_error != bp->b_error) {
bp->b_flags |= (XBF_WRITE | XBF_DONE | XBF_WRITE_FAIL);
bp->b_last_error = bp->b_error;
bp->b_retries = 0;
bp->b_first_retry_time = jiffies;
if (cfg->retry_timeout && !bp->b_first_retry_time)
bp->b_first_retry_time = jiffies;

xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, 0);
xfs_buf_submit(bp);
Expand All @@ -1096,7 +1098,6 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callback_error(
* Repeated failure on an async write. Take action according to the
* error configuration we have been set up to use.
*/
cfg = xfs_error_get_cfg(mp, XFS_ERR_METADATA, bp->b_error);

if (cfg->max_retries != XFS_ERR_RETRY_FOREVER &&
++bp->b_retries > cfg->max_retries)
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