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Commit 9a4e7276 authored by Zhao Lei's avatar Zhao Lei Committed by Chris Mason
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btrfs: wait for delayed iputs on no space



btrfs will report no_space when we run following write and delete
file loop:
 # FILE_SIZE_M=[ 75% of fs space ]
 # DEV=[ some dev ]
 # MNT=[ some dir ]
 #
 # mkfs.btrfs -f "$DEV"
 # mount -o nodatacow "$DEV" "$MNT"
 # for ((i = 0; i < 100; i++)); do dd if=/dev/zero of="$MNT"/file0 bs=1M count="$FILE_SIZE_M"; rm -f "$MNT"/file0; done
 #

Reason:
 iput() and evict() is run after write pages to block device, if
 write pages work is not finished before next write, the "rm"ed space
 is not freed, and caused above bug.

Fix:
 We can add "-o flushoncommit" mount option to avoid above bug, but
 it have performance problem. Actually, we can to wait for on-the-fly
 writes only when no-space happened, it is which this patch do.

Signed-off-by: default avatarZhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mason <clm@fb.com>
parent d6726335
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