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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Liu Bo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "Btrfs: increase the global block reserve estimates"
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:24:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120410152415.GW29506@shiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120409224008.GB11041@twin.jikos.cz>

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:40:08AM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 09:37:08AM +0800, Liu Bo wrote:
> > The whole thing is about our overcommit stuff, that is,
> > since we are not able to get _precise_ number of reservation right now, we usually
> > reserve more than what we need.
> > For this, we've done overcommit dance (thanks for Josef's work!) but it's still not
> > enough for our reservation when we still have some disk space.
> >
> > I'm ok with this revert, but since we don't use up all the reserved space in most time,
> > I assume the following can be an alternative, thanks,
> 
> Unfortunatelly the situation looks not good for 3.3 btrfs users, I'm
> looking for something we know that somehow (ie like in 3.2) works and
> are able to submit to the stable tree very soon. I'll definitelly test
> your alternative and if Chris applies it during the -rc phase we'll have
> more time to verify it or you/Josef fix it in another way.

Lets do the alternative of reverting the patch and dropping the warning.
I've been trying to find a small and simple patch for that but I don't
think that's going to happen for a stable commit.

-chris


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-10 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-08 23:40 [PATCH] Revert "Btrfs: increase the global block reserve estimates" David Sterba
2012-04-09  1:37 ` Liu Bo
2012-04-09 22:40   ` David Sterba
2012-04-10 15:24     ` Chris Mason [this message]
2012-04-11 16:00   ` David Sterba

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