Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: reflink deadlock when clone file to the same directory simultaneously

From: Joseph Qi
Date: Sun Oct 16 2022 - 21:52:11 EST


Hi Andrew,

On 10/17/22 7:29 AM, Andrew Morton via Ocfs2-devel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:56:16 +0800 Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> So, I will send a new patch to fix this deadlock problem via dlmglue layer.
>> For this patch, I want to change the patch comments as a reflink
>> improvement patch.
>
> Did this ever happen? I've been sitting on this patch for ages.
>
Looked back this thread, the root cause of deadlock seems to be the
asynchronous of fsdlm handling. So this is not a right fix.
While for the performance improvement, I need some test data as well.

Thanks,
Joseph