Re: [PATCH 12/13] xfs: stop the steal (of data blocks for RT indirect blocks)

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 12:03:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> When xfs_bmap_del_extent_delay has to split an indirect block it tries
> to steal blocks from the the part that gets unmapped to increase the
> indirect block reservation that now needs to cover for two extents
> instead of one.
> 
> This works perfectly fine on the data device, where the data and
> indirect blocks come from the same pool.  It has no chance of working
> when the inode sits on the RT device.  To support re-enabling delalloc
> for inodes on the RT device, make this behavior conditional on not
> beeing for rt extents.
> 
> Note that split of delalloc extents should only happen on writeback
> failure, as for other kinds of hole punching we first write back all
> data and thus convert the delalloc reservations covering the hole to
> a real allocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Dave Chinner
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