On 08/23/2012 06:07 PM, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, August 23, 2012 at 10:56 (+0200), Liu Bo wrote:
>> This is the change of the kernel side.
>>
>> Transition of logical to inode used to have a limit 4096 on inode container's
>> size, but the limit is not large enough for a data with a great many of refs,
>> so when resolving logical address, we can end up with
>> "ioctl ret=0, bytes_left=0, bytes_missing=19944, cnt=510, missed=2493"
>>
>> This changes to regard 4096 as the lowest limit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li....@oracle.com>
>> ---
>> fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
>> index 9449b84..525915f 100644
>> --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
>> @@ -3232,7 +3232,7 @@ static long btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino(struct
>> btrfs_root *root,
>> goto out;
>> }
>>
>> - size = min_t(u32, loi->size, 4096);
>> + size = max_t(u32, loi->size, 4096);
>
> Hum. I added this because I wanted to avoid allocations > PAGE_SIZE. We're
> doing
> kmalloc GFP_NOFS with whatever one enters as size, I'm not sure that's a good
> idea without any sanitizing.
>
Yeah, I agree.
So we do need to make some sanity checks, according to my tests,
we need about 30k to resolve a file shared by 4000 snapshots.
What about 32k as a upside limit?
> Second, we should probably add a fall back option to vmalloc, in case kmalloc
> fails? Or should we even go for vmalloc directly, what do you think?
>
Given loi->size is not reliable, going for vmalloc for an ioctl is reasonable.
thanks,
liubo
> Thanks,
> -Jan
>
>> inodes = init_data_container(size);
>> if (IS_ERR(inodes)) {
>> ret = PTR_ERR(inodes);
>
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