From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pstaubach@exagrid.com,
miklos@szeredi.hu, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org,
michael.brantley@deshaw.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] vfs: make fstatat retry on ESTALE errors from getattr call
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:09:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120413080927.72cca80f@tlielax.poochiereds.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120413120232.GA27179@umich.edu>
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:02:32 -0400
Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> wrote:
> Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> +retry:
> error = user_path_at(dfd, filename, lookup_flags, &path);
> if (error)
> goto out;
>
> error = vfs_getattr(path.mnt, path.dentry, stat);
> + should_retry = error == -ESTALE ? retry_estale(path.dentry) : false;
> path_put(&path);
> + if (should_retry) {
> + lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
> + goto retry;
> + }
> out:
> return error;
> }
>
> This is starting to look like FORTRAN. Maybe turn this into a "do while"?
> Then you could make the "goto out" into a break and get rid of them both.
Sure, that's doable. If we want to do a finite number of retries that
may be preferable anyway.
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-13 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-13 11:25 Jeff Layton
2012-04-13 12:02 ` Jim Rees
2012-04-13 12:09 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
[not found] ` <20120413150518.GA1987@us.ibm.com>
2012-04-13 15:42 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-13 16:07 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-13 17:10 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-13 17:34 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-13 23:00 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-14 0:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2012-04-15 19:03 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-04-15 19:27 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-16 14:23 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-04-15 19:57 ` Chuck Lever
2012-04-16 11:23 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 11:53 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-16 11:36 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-16 12:54 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-16 16:04 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-16 14:44 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-04-16 17:46 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-16 19:33 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-16 19:43 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-16 20:25 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-16 23:05 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 11:46 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-17 13:36 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 14:14 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-17 14:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-17 15:02 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 15:50 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-17 16:03 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 15:59 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-17 13:12 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-17 13:32 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 14:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-17 14:22 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 14:04 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-17 14:20 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 15:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-17 16:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-17 13:39 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-17 14:08 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-17 14:48 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-18 15:16 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-16 19:43 ` Scott Lovenberg
2012-04-16 16:55 ` [PATCH RFC v2] " Jeff Layton
2012-04-18 11:52 ` [PATCH RFC v3] vfs: make fstatat retry once " Jeff Layton
2012-04-20 14:40 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-20 20:18 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-20 20:37 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-04-20 21:13 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-22 5:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-23 12:00 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 13:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-23 13:12 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 13:34 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-23 13:50 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 13:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-23 14:51 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-23 15:02 ` Chuck Lever
2012-04-23 15:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-23 17:45 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-23 15:16 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 15:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-23 18:59 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-20 21:13 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 14:55 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-23 15:32 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 18:06 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-23 18:33 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 20:38 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-24 14:50 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-24 15:54 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-24 16:34 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-25 9:41 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-25 12:04 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 17:43 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-23 19:06 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-04-22 4:16 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-04-23 11:20 ` Jeff Layton
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