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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/balloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/balloc.c | 38 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c index f45f9feebe59..74a5172c2d83 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c @@ -626,27 +626,41 @@ int ext4_claim_free_clusters(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi, /** * ext4_should_retry_alloc() - check if a block allocation should be retried - * @sb: super block - * @retries: number of attemps has been made + * @sb: superblock + * @retries: number of retry attempts made so far * - * ext4_should_retry_alloc() is called when ENOSPC is returned, and if - * it is profitable to retry the operation, this function will wait - * for the current or committing transaction to complete, and then - * return TRUE. We will only retry once. + * ext4_should_retry_alloc() is called when ENOSPC is returned while + * attempting to allocate blocks. If there's an indication that a pending + * journal transaction might free some space and allow another attempt to + * succeed, this function will wait for the current or committing transaction + * to complete and then return TRUE. */ int ext4_should_retry_alloc(struct super_block *sb, int *retries) { - if (!ext4_has_free_clusters(EXT4_SB(sb), 1, 0) || - (*retries)++ > 1 || - !EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal) + struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb); + + if (!sbi->s_journal) return 0; - smp_mb(); - if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mb_free_pending == 0) + if (++(*retries) > 3) { + percpu_counter_inc(&sbi->s_sra_exceeded_retry_limit); return 0; + } + /* + * if there's no indication that blocks are about to be freed it's + * possible we just missed a transaction commit that did so + */ + smp_mb(); + if (sbi->s_mb_free_pending == 0) + return ext4_has_free_clusters(sbi, 1, 0); + + /* + * it's possible we've just missed a transaction commit here, + * so ignore the returned status + */ jbd_debug(1, "%s: retrying operation after ENOSPC\n", sb->s_id); - jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal); + (void) jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested(sbi->s_journal); return 1; } |