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authorChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2010-05-26 15:02:00 (GMT)
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2010-05-26 15:02:00 (GMT)
commit94b604429a6cd94ddc128fa2772c57209bb1318f (patch)
tree700c5b9cb431bde48f07813224e6a5165a9d6540
parent3f7c579c41a3d20af76fd6ff1f6b949edf105fd1 (diff)
downloadlinux-94b604429a6cd94ddc128fa2772c57209bb1318f.tar.xz
Btrfs: avoid ENOSPC errors in btrfs_dirty_inode
btrfs_dirty_inode tries to sneak in without much waiting or space reservation, mostly for performance reasons. This usually works well but can cause problems when there are many many writers. When btrfs_update_inode fails with ENOSPC, we fallback to a slower btrfs_start_transaction call that will reserve some space. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/inode.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index ca9d550..5d62f21 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -4308,10 +4308,18 @@ void btrfs_dirty_inode(struct inode *inode)
btrfs_set_trans_block_group(trans, inode);
ret = btrfs_update_inode(trans, root, inode);
- if (ret)
- printk(KERN_ERR"btrfs: fail to dirty inode %lu error %d\n",
- inode->i_ino, ret);
+ if (ret && ret == -ENOSPC) {
+ /* whoops, lets try again with the full transaction */
+ btrfs_end_transaction(trans, root);
+ trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 1);
+ btrfs_set_trans_block_group(trans, inode);
+ ret = btrfs_update_inode(trans, root, inode);
+ if (ret) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR"btrfs: fail to dirty inode %lu error %d\n",
+ inode->i_ino, ret);
+ }
+ }
btrfs_end_transaction(trans, root);
}