On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 07:07:12PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Other parts of XFS have learned to call xfs_blockgc_free_{space,quota}
> to try to free speculative preallocations when space is tight. This
> means that file writes, transaction reservation failures, quota limit
> enforcement, and the EOFBLOCKS ioctl all call this function to free
> space when things are tight.
>
> Since inode inactivation is now a background task, this means that the
> filesystem can be hanging on to unlinked but not yet freed space. Add
> this to the list of things that xfs_blockgc_free_* makes writer threads
> scan for when they cannot reserve space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Yup.
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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