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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: force delalloc flushing when things get
From: Josef Bacik <josef () redhat ! com>
Date: 2010-03-31 2:07:26
Message-ID: 20100331020726.GD2352 () localhost ! localdomain
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:25:54PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:23:09PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > When testing with max_extents=4k, we enospc out really really early. The reason
> > for this is we really overwhelm the system with our worst case calculation.
> > When we try to flush delalloc, we don't want everybody to wait around forever,
> > so we wake up the waiters when we've done some of the work in hopes that its
> > enough work to get everything they need done. The problem with this is we don't
> > wait long enough sometimes. So if we've already done a flush_delalloc and
> > didn't find what we need, do it again and this time wait for the flushing to be
> > completely finished before returning. This makes my ENOSPC test actually
> > finish, instead of finishing in about 20 seconds. Thanks,
>
> Thanks Josef, was this one against the per-cpu work? It doesn't apply
> cleanly but is simple enough that I can just bang it in there ;)
>
Yeah I think it was, I can redo it if you like. It's not as big of a deal
without max_extent, but it could still be usefull for some corner cases.
Thanks,
Josef
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