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Commit a348c8d4 authored by Filipe Manana's avatar Filipe Manana Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: fix nowait buffered write returning -ENOSPC

If we are doing a buffered write in NOWAIT context and we can't reserve
metadata space due to -ENOSPC, then we should return -EAGAIN so that we
retry the write in a context allowed to block and do metadata reservation
with flushing, which might succeed this time due to the allowed flushing.

Returning -ENOSPC while in NOWAIT context simply makes some writes fail
with -ENOSPC when they would likely succeed after switching from NOWAIT
context to blocking context. That is unexpected behaviour and even fio
complains about it with a warning like this:

  fio: io_u error on file /mnt/sdi/task_0.0.0: No space left on device: write offset=1535705088, buflen=65536
  fio: pid=592630, err=28/file:io_u.c:1846, func=io_u error, error=No space left on device

The fio's job config is this:

   [global]
   bs=64K
   ioengine=io_uring
   iodepth=1
   size=2236962133
   nr_files=1
   filesize=2236962133
   direct=0
   runtime=10
   fallocate=posix
   io_size=2236962133
   group_reporting
   time_based

   [task_0]
   rw=randwrite
   directory=/mnt/sdi
   numjobs=4

So fix this by returning -EAGAIN if we are in NOWAIT context and the
metadata reservation failed with -ENOSPC.

Fixes: 304e45ac

 ("btrfs: plumb NOWAIT through the write path")
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent d0ea17ae
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