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    ext4: flush delalloc blocks when space is low · c8afb446
    Eric Sandeen authored
    Creating many small files in rapid succession on a small
    filesystem can lead to spurious ENOSPC; on a 104MB filesystem:
    
    for i in `seq 1 22500`; do
        echo -n > $SCRATCH_MNT/$i
        echo XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > $SCRATCH_MNT/$i
    done
    
    leads to ENOSPC even though after a sync, 40% of the fs is free
    again.
    
    This is because we reserve worst-case metadata for delalloc writes,
    and when data is allocated that worst-case reservation is not
    usually needed.
    
    When freespace is low, kicking off an async writeback will start
    converting that worst-case space usage into something more realistic,
    almost always freeing up space to continue.
    
    This resolves the testcase for me, and survives all 4 generic
    ENOSPC tests in xfstests.
    
    We'll still need a hard synchronous sync to squeeze out the last bit,
    but this fixes things up to a large degree.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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