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>
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 @@
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;
}