On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:56:53AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Fri 18-09-20 14:37:15, Ritesh Harjani wrote: > > > > > > On 9/16/20 5:08 PM, Ye Bin wrote: > > > From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > > > > > > ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations() can be releasing group lock with > > > preallocations accumulated on its local list. Thus although > > > discard_pa_seq was incremented and concurrent allocating processes will > > > be retrying allocations, it can happen that premature ENOSPC error is > > > returned because blocks used for preallocations are not available for > > > reuse yet. Make sure we always free locally accumulated preallocations > > > before releasing group lock. > > > > > > Fixes: 07b5b8e1ac40 ("ext4: mballoc: introduce pcpu seqcnt for freeing PA to improve ENOSPC handling") > > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ... > > > + /* if we still need more blocks and some PAs were used, try again */ > > > + if (free < needed && busy) { > > > + ext4_unlock_group(sb, group); > > > + cond_resched(); > > > + busy = 0; > > > + /* Make sure we increment discard_pa_seq again */ > > > + needed -= free; > > > + free = 0; > > > > Oops sorry about getting back to this. > > But if we are making free 0 here so we may return a wrong free value > > when we return from this function. We should fix that by also accounting > > previous freed blocks at the time of final return from this function. > > Ah, good catch! I'll send v2 with this fixed up. Did you send a v2 of this patch? I can't find it in my inbox... Thanks! - Ted