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author | Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> | 2009-12-23 12:58:12 (GMT) |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2009-12-23 12:58:12 (GMT) |
commit | c8afb44682fcef6273e8b8eb19fab13ddd05b386 (patch) | |
tree | 44c170427e54b611d7f02a31bbd5733cc9cf1dd0 /fs/ext4/inode.c | |
parent | 17bd55d037a02b04d9119511cfd1a4b985d20f63 (diff) | |
download | linux-c8afb44682fcef6273e8b8eb19fab13ddd05b386.tar.xz |
ext4: flush delalloc blocks when space is low
Creating many small files in rapid succession on a small
filesystem can lead to spurious ENOSPC; on a 104MB filesystem:
for i in `seq 1 22500`; do
echo -n > $SCRATCH_MNT/$i
echo XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > $SCRATCH_MNT/$i
done
leads to ENOSPC even though after a sync, 40% of the fs is free
again.
This is because we reserve worst-case metadata for delalloc writes,
and when data is allocated that worst-case reservation is not
usually needed.
When freespace is low, kicking off an async writeback will start
converting that worst-case space usage into something more realistic,
almost always freeing up space to continue.
This resolves the testcase for me, and survives all 4 generic
ENOSPC tests in xfstests.
We'll still need a hard synchronous sync to squeeze out the last bit,
but this fixes things up to a large degree.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/inode.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index ab80796..282621f 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -2993,11 +2993,18 @@ static int ext4_nonda_switch(struct super_block *sb) if (2 * free_blocks < 3 * dirty_blocks || free_blocks < (dirty_blocks + EXT4_FREEBLOCKS_WATERMARK)) { /* - * free block count is less that 150% of dirty blocks - * or free blocks is less that watermark + * free block count is less than 150% of dirty blocks + * or free blocks is less than watermark */ return 1; } + /* + * Even if we don't switch but are nearing capacity, + * start pushing delalloc when 1/2 of free blocks are dirty. + */ + if (free_blocks < 2 * dirty_blocks) + writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(sb); + return 0; } |