Hello, I'd like to aforementioned patch to be applied to stable 4.9/4.12. The attached backport applies cleanly to both of them.
>From 278e5d0839f4ecc6d7bfb7a95cb735b9034e8315 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:10:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix early ENOSPC due to delalloc If a lot of metadata is reserved for outstanding delayed allocations, we rely on shrink_delalloc() to reclaim metadata space in order to fulfill reservation tickets. However, shrink_delalloc() has a shortcut where if it determines that space can be overcommitted, it will stop early. This made sense before the ticketed enospc system, but now it means that shrink_delalloc() will often not reclaim enough space to fulfill any tickets, leading to an early ENOSPC. (Reservation tickets don't care about being able to overcommit, they need every byte accounted for.) Fix it by getting rid of the shortcut so that shrink_delalloc() reclaims all of the metadata it is supposed to. This fixes early ENOSPCs we were seeing when doing a btrfs receive to populate a new filesystem, as well as early ENOSPCs Christoph saw when doing a big cp -r onto Btrfs. Fixes: 957780eb2788 ("Btrfs: introduce ticketed enospc infrastructure") Tested-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c index a8d6ad4042b7..adb285a93753 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c @@ -4813,10 +4813,6 @@ static void shrink_delalloc(struct btrfs_root *root, u64 to_reclaim, u64 orig, else flush = BTRFS_RESERVE_NO_FLUSH; spin_lock(&space_info->lock); - if (can_overcommit(root, space_info, orig, flush)) { - spin_unlock(&space_info->lock); - break; - } if (list_empty(&space_info->tickets) && list_empty(&space_info->priority_tickets)) { spin_unlock(&space_info->lock); -- 2.7.4