On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:39:13PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 13-11-12 01:36:13, Jan Kara wrote:
> > When project quota gets exceeded xfs_iomap_write_delay() ends up flushing
> > inodes because ENOSPC gets returned from xfs_bmapi_delay() instead of
> > EDQUOT.
> > This makes handling of writes over project quota rather slow as a simple
> > test
> > program shows:
> > fd = open(argv[1], O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0644);
> > for (i = 0; i < 50000; i++)
> > pwrite(fd, buf, 4096, i*4096);
> >
> > Writing 200 MB like this into a directory with 100 MB project quota takes
> > around 6 minutes while it takes about 2 seconds with this patch applied.
> > This
> > actually happens in a real world load when nfs pushes data into a directory
> > which is over project quota.
> >
> > Fix the problem by replacing XFS_QMOPT_ENOSPC flag with XFS_QMOPT_EPDQUOT.
> > That makes xfs_trans_reserve_quota_bydquots() return new error EPDQUOT when
> > project quota is exceeded. xfs_bmapi_delay() then uses this flag so that
> > xfs_iomap_write_delay() can distinguish real ENOSPC (requiring flushing)
> > from exceeded project quota (not requiring flushing).
> >
> > As a side effect this patch fixes inconsistency where e.g. xfs_create()
> > returned EDQUOT even when project quota was exceeded.
> Ping? Any opinions?
Busy, haven't had a chance to look at it.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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