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Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io

From Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io
Date 2016-04-15 20:30 +0200
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Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
>>
>>>>> There's a lot of special casing here, so you might consider adding
>>>>> comments.
>>>>
>>>> Correct - maybe we should reconsider wrapper-izing this? :)
>>>
>>> Another option is just to skip dax_do_io() and this special casing
>>> fallback entirely if errors are present.  I.e. only attempt dax_do_io
>>> when: IS_DAX() && gendisk->bb && bb->count == 0.
>>
>> So, if there's an error anywhere on the device, penalize all I/O (not
>> just writes, and not just on sectors that are bad)?  I'm not sure that's
>> a great plan, either.
>>
>
> If errors are rare how much are we actually losing in practice?

How long is a piece of string?

> Moreover, we're going to do the full badblocks lookup anyway when we
> call ->direct_access().  If we had that information earlier we can
> avoid this fallback dance.

None of the proposed approaches looks clean to me.  I'll go along with
whatever you guys think is best.  I am in favor of wrapping up all that
duplicated code, though.

Cheers,
Jeff

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Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-04-15 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-04-15 19:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-15 20:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 20:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-15 20:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 20:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-15 21:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 21:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-04-15 21:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-04-15 21:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-04-20 23:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-04-23 20:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-04-25 10:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-25 17:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-04-26 10:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-04-25 19:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-25 19:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-04-26 01:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> - 2016-04-26 01:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 01:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-04-26 02:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 03:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-04-26 05:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 06:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-04-26 10:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 17:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 17:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 19:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 02:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-04-26 02:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Vishal Verma <vishal@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 17:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-04-26 10:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Vishal Verma <vishal@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 17:10 +0200

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