From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id qAJNrRS4071071 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:53:27 -0600 Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.129]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id wZ1KwdZ1nsKf1rLk for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:55:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:55:30 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: Don't flush inodes when project quota exceeded Message-ID: <20121119235530.GY14281@dastard> References: <1352766973-14197-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20121119213913.GB29498@quack.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121119213913.GB29498@quack.suse.cz> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Jan Kara Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:39:13PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Tue 13-11-12 01:36:13, Jan Kara wrote: > > When project quota gets exceeded xfs_iomap_write_delay() ends up flushing > > inodes because ENOSPC gets returned from xfs_bmapi_delay() instead of EDQUOT. > > This makes handling of writes over project quota rather slow as a simple test > > program shows: > > fd = open(argv[1], O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0644); > > for (i = 0; i < 50000; i++) > > pwrite(fd, buf, 4096, i*4096); > > > > Writing 200 MB like this into a directory with 100 MB project quota takes > > around 6 minutes while it takes about 2 seconds with this patch applied. This > > actually happens in a real world load when nfs pushes data into a directory > > which is over project quota. > > > > Fix the problem by replacing XFS_QMOPT_ENOSPC flag with XFS_QMOPT_EPDQUOT. > > That makes xfs_trans_reserve_quota_bydquots() return new error EPDQUOT when > > project quota is exceeded. xfs_bmapi_delay() then uses this flag so that > > xfs_iomap_write_delay() can distinguish real ENOSPC (requiring flushing) > > from exceeded project quota (not requiring flushing). > > > > As a side effect this patch fixes inconsistency where e.g. xfs_create() > > returned EDQUOT even when project quota was exceeded. > Ping? Any opinions? Busy, haven't had a chance to look at it. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs