[PATCH 01/18] xfs: Ensure inode reclaim can run during quotacheck

[Mark Tinguely]

On 04/13/12 07:10, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner at redhat.com>
>
> Because the mount process can run a quotacheck and consume lots of
> inodes, we need to be able to run periodic inode reclaim during the
> mount process. This will prevent running the system out of memory
> during quota checks.
>
> This essentially reverts 2bcf6e97, but that is safe to do now that
> the quota sync code that was causing problems during long quotacheck
> executions is now gone.
>
> The reclaim work is currently protected from running during the
> unmount process by a check against MS_ACTIVE. Unfortunately, this
> also means that the reclaim work cannot run during mount.  The
> unmount process should stop the reclaim cleanly before freeing
> anything that the reclaim work depends on, so there is no need to
> have this guard in place.
>
> Also, the inode reclaim work is demand driven, so there is no need
> to start it immediately during mount. It will be started the moment
> an inode is queued for reclaim, so qutoacheck will trigger it just
> fine.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner at redhat.com>
> ---


Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely at sgi.com>