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authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>2021-01-22 16:48:39 -0800
committerDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>2021-02-03 09:18:49 -0800
commita1a7d05a05765eec042942a5c360e909c0dd0131 (patch)
tree373b32e9a62675fab730b9ae0dbf76021668226b
parent85c5b27075ba0389855d9f46ff1b1d5c34a44c94 (diff)
xfs: flush speculative space allocations when we run out of space
If a fs modification (creation, file write, reflink, etc.) is unable to reserve enough space to handle the modification, try clearing whatever space the filesystem might have been hanging onto in the hopes of speeding up the filesystem. The flushing behavior will become particularly important when we add deferred inode inactivation because that will increase the amount of space that isn't actively tied to user data. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
index a23400f59e7d..44f72c09c203 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
@@ -289,6 +289,17 @@ xfs_trans_alloc(
tp->t_firstblock = NULLFSBLOCK;
error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, resp, blocks, rtextents);
+ if (error == -ENOSPC) {
+ /*
+ * We weren't able to reserve enough space for the transaction.
+ * Flush the other speculative space allocations to free space.
+ * Do not perform a synchronous scan because callers can hold
+ * other locks.
+ */
+ error = xfs_blockgc_free_space(mp, NULL);
+ if (!error)
+ error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, resp, blocks, rtextents);
+ }
if (error) {
xfs_trans_cancel(tp);
return error;