On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 12:16:26PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 10:27:16AM +0000, John Garry wrote: > > The low-space allocator doesn't honour the alignment requirement, so don't > > attempt to even use it (when we have an alignment requirement). > > > > Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c | 4 ++++ > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c > > index 30c931b38853..328134c22104 100644 > > --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c > > +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c > > @@ -3569,6 +3569,10 @@ xfs_bmap_btalloc_low_space( > > { > > int error; > > > > + /* The allocator doesn't honour args->alignment */ > > + if (args->alignment > 1) > > + return 0; > > + > > How does this happen? > > The earlier failing aligned allocations will clear alignment before > we get here.... I was thinking the predicate should be xfs_inode_force_align(ip) to save me/us from thinking about all the other weird ways args->alignment could end up 1. /* forced-alignment means we don't use low mode */ if (xfs_inode_force_align(ip)) return -ENOSPC; --D > -Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx