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: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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