xfs: flush delayed allcoation blocks on ENOSPC in create

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.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Dave Chinner 2009-04-06 18:48:30 +02:00 committed by Christoph Hellwig
parent e43afd72d2
commit 153fec43ce

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@ -1457,6 +1457,13 @@ xfs_create(
error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, resblks, log_res, 0,
XFS_TRANS_PERM_LOG_RES, log_count);
if (error == ENOSPC) {
/* flush outstanding delalloc blocks and retry */
xfs_flush_inodes(dp);
error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, resblks, XFS_CREATE_LOG_RES(mp), 0,
XFS_TRANS_PERM_LOG_RES, XFS_CREATE_LOG_COUNT);
}
if (error == ENOSPC) {
/* No space at all so try a "no-allocation" reservation */
resblks = 0;
error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0, log_res, 0,
XFS_TRANS_PERM_LOG_RES, log_count);