[Cluster-devel] GFS2: Fall back to ignoring reservations, if there are no other blocks left

Steven Whitehouse swhiteho at redhat.com
Thu Aug 23 15:39:36 UTC 2012


>From 3f91ce2ae13016a66fc011c0a18909ec9d76f095 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:43:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] GFS2: Fall back to ignoring reservations, if there are no other blocks left

When we get to the stage of allocating blocks, we know that the
resource group in question must contain enough free blocks, otherwise
gfs2_inplace_reserve() would have failed. So if we are left with only
free blocks which are reserved, then we must use those. This can happen
if another node has sneaked in and use some blocks reserved on this
node, for example. Generally this will happen very rarely and only
when the resource group is nearly full.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/rgrp.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
index 55a2651..30c864e 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
@@ -2012,6 +2012,11 @@ int gfs2_alloc_blocks(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 *bn, unsigned int *nblocks,
 	gfs2_rbm_from_block(&rbm, goal);
 	error = gfs2_rbm_find(&rbm, GFS2_BLKST_FREE, ip, false);
 
+	if (error == -ENOSPC) {
+		gfs2_rbm_from_block(&rbm, goal);
+		error = gfs2_rbm_find(&rbm, GFS2_BLKST_FREE, NULL, false);
+	}
+
 	/* Since all blocks are reserved in advance, this shouldn't happen */
 	if (error) {
 		fs_warn(sdp, "error=%d, nblocks=%u, full=%d\n", error, *nblocks,
-- 
1.7.4






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