On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:08:29PM +0800, Yan Zheng wrote:
> 2009/1/28 Josef Bacik <[email protected]>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Theres a slight problem with finish_current_insert, if we set all to 1 and 
> > then
> > go through and don't actually skip any of the extents on the pending list, 
> > we
> > could exit right after we've added new extents.  This is a problem because 
> > by
> > inserting the new extents we could have gotten new COW's to happen and 
> > such, so
> > we may have some pending updates to do or even more inserts to do after 
> > that.
> > So this patch will only exit if we have never skipped any of the extents in 
> > the
> > pending list, and we have no extents to insert, this will make sure that 
> > all of
> > the pending work is truly done before we return.  I've been running with 
> > this
> > patch for a few days with all of my other testing and have not seen issues.
> > Thanks,
> 
> Hi
> 
> I think this patch doesn't handle the case we only find some pending updates
> ,but neither find any pending insertion nor skip any extent on the pending 
> list.
> In that case, num_inserts == 0, restart == 0. finish_current_insert
> exits immediately
> after update_backrefs return.  This problem is that update_backrefs may add
> new extents to the pending list.
>

Hmm crap it can can't it.  Alright I will fix that, thanks,

Josef 
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