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xfs: flush speculative space allocations when we run out of space

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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>
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Darrick J. Wong 2021-01-22 16:48:39 -08:00
parent 85c5b27075
commit a1a7d05a05
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@ -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;