From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: mpatocka@redhat.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] [XFS] Flush delayed allcoation blocks on ENOSPC in create
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:14:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090316091410.GD2636@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237116707-25793-5-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:31:46PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> If we are creating lots of small files, we can fail to get
> a reservation for inode create earlier than we should due to
> EOF preallocation done during delayed allocation reservation.
> Hence on the first reservation ENOSPC failure flush all the
> delayed allocation blocks out of the system and retry.
>
> This fixes the last commonly triggered spurious ENOSPC issue
> that has been reported.
Looks good.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-15 11:31 [PATCH 0/5, RESEND] [XFS] Spurious ENOSPC fixes Dave Chinner
2009-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 1/5] [XFS] Use xfs_sync_inodes() for device flushing Dave Chinner
2009-03-16 9:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-16 10:45 ` Dave Chinner
2009-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 2/5] [XFS] Make inode flush at ENOSPC synchronous Dave Chinner
2009-03-16 9:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-16 10:46 ` Dave Chinner
2009-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 3/5] [XFS] Block callers of xfs_flush_inodes() correctly Dave Chinner
2009-03-16 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-16 10:27 ` Dave Chinner
2009-03-17 13:15 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] [XFS] Flush delayed allcoation blocks on ENOSPC in create Dave Chinner
2009-03-16 9:14 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] [XFS] Remove xfs_flush_space Dave Chinner
2009-03-16 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2009-03-15 10:57 [PATCH 0/5] [XFS] Spurious ENOSPC fixes Dave Chinner
2009-03-15 10:57 ` [PATCH 4/5] [XFS] Flush delayed allcoation blocks on ENOSPC in create Dave Chinner
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