2014-02-24 6:22 GMT+09:00, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 01:37:55AM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
>> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This patch implements fallocate's FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE for XFS.
>>
>> The semantics of this flag are following:
>> 1) It collapses the range lying between offset and length by removing any
>> data
>> blocks which are present in this range and than updates all the
>> logical
>> offsets of extents beyond "offset + len" to nullify the hole created
>> by
>> removing blocks. In short, it does not leave a hole.
>> 2) It should be used exclusively. No other fallocate flag in combination.
>> 3) Offset and length supplied to fallocate should be fs block size
>> aligned
>> in case of xfs and ext4.
>> 4) Collaspe range does not work beyond i_size.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> .....
>> + while (!error && !done) {
>> + tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_DIOSTRAT);
>> + tp->t_flags |= XFS_TRANS_RESERVE;
>
Hi Dave.
> This probably shouldn't use XFS_TRANS_RESERVE. If we are at ENOSPC,
> then the operation simply fails. Yes, we've already punched the
> hole, so we shouldn't get ENOSPC here, but I don't think it's worth
> dipping into the reserve pool as it has much more important uses...
Okay.
>
> You don' tneed to resent the entire patch for this - I can remove it
> directly myself....
Thanks very much for your help!!
>
> Otherwise it looks good, so consider it
>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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