On 15.07.2017 00:36, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 10:59:27PM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
>> From: Omar Sandoval <[email protected]>
>>
>> If a lot of metadata is reserved for outstanding delayed allocations, we
>> rely on shrink_delalloc() to reclaim metadata space in order to fulfill
>> reservation tickets. However, shrink_delalloc() has a shortcut where if
>> it determines that space can be overcommitted, it will stop early. This
>> made sense before the ticketed enospc system, but now it means that
>> shrink_delalloc() will often not reclaim enough space to fulfill any
>> tickets, leading to an early ENOSPC. (Reservation tickets don't care
>> about being able to overcommit, they need every byte accounted for.)
>>
>> Fix it by getting rid of the shortcut so that shrink_delalloc() reclaims
>> all of the metadata it is supposed to. This fixes early ENOSPCs we were
>> seeing when doing a btrfs receive to populate a new filesystem.
> 
> Jeff, Nikolay, did either of you get a chance to test this yet?

I tested this patch with generic/273 and it didn't prevent ENOSPC there.

> 
>> Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> I don't have a good reproducer for this except for the btrfs send stream
>> I was given by someone internally, unfortunately.
>>
>>  fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 4 ----
>>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
>> index 33d979e9ea2a..83eecd33ad96 100644
>> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
>> @@ -4776,10 +4776,6 @@ static void shrink_delalloc(struct btrfs_root *root, 
>> u64 to_reclaim, u64 orig,
>>              else
>>                      flush = BTRFS_RESERVE_NO_FLUSH;
>>              spin_lock(&space_info->lock);
>> -            if (can_overcommit(root, space_info, orig, flush)) {
>> -                    spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
>> -                    break;
>> -            }
>>              if (list_empty(&space_info->tickets) &&
>>                  list_empty(&space_info->priority_tickets)) {
>>                      spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
>> -- 
>> 2.13.2
>>
> 
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