On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 03:43:57PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:22:52PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Don't stall the cowblocks scan on a locked inode if we possibly can. > > We'd much rather the background scanner keep moving. > > Wouldn't it make more sense to move the logic to ignore the -EAGAIN > for not-sync calls into xfs_inode_walk_ag? I'm not sure what you're asking here? _free_cowblocks only returns EAGAIN for sync calls. Locking failure for a not-sync call results in a return 0, which means that _walk_ag just moves on to the next inode. --D