From: Hao Xu <howeyxu@xxxxxxxxxxx> if the log transaction is a sync one, let's fail the nowait try and return -EAGAIN directly since sync transaction means blocked by IO. Signed-off-by: Hao Xu <howeyxu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c index 7988b4c7f36e..f1f84a3dd456 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c @@ -968,12 +968,24 @@ __xfs_trans_commit( xfs_csn_t commit_seq = 0; int error = 0; int sync = tp->t_flags & XFS_TRANS_SYNC; + bool nowait = tp->t_flags & XFS_TRANS_NOWAIT; + bool perm_log = tp->t_flags & XFS_TRANS_PERM_LOG_RES; trace_xfs_trans_commit(tp, _RET_IP_); + if (nowait && sync) { + /* + * Currently nowait is only from xfs_vn_update_time() + * so perm_log is always false here, but let's make + * code general. + */ + if (perm_log) + xfs_defer_cancel(tp); + goto out_unreserve; + } error = xfs_trans_run_precommits(tp); if (error) { - if (tp->t_flags & XFS_TRANS_PERM_LOG_RES) + if (perm_log) xfs_defer_cancel(tp); goto out_unreserve; } -- 2.25.1