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Commit 5e672cd6 authored by Dave Chinner's avatar Dave Chinner Committed by Darrick J. Wong
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xfs: introduce xfs_inodegc_push()



The current blocking mechanism for pushing the inodegc queue out to
disk can result in systems becoming unusable when there is a long
running inodegc operation. This is because the statfs()
implementation currently issues a blocking flush of the inodegc
queue and a significant number of common system utilities will call
statfs() to discover something about the underlying filesystem.

This can result in userspace operations getting stuck on inodegc
progress, and when trying to remove a heavily reflinked file on slow
storage with a full journal, this can result in delays measuring in
hours.

Avoid this problem by adding "push" function that expedites the
flushing of the inodegc queue, but doesn't wait for it to complete.

Convert xfs_fs_statfs() and xfs_qm_scall_getquota() to use this
mechanism so they don't block but still ensure that queued
operations are expedited.

Fixes: ab23a776 ("xfs: per-cpu deferred inode inactivation queues")
Reported-by: default avatarChris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
[djwong: fix _getquota_next to use _inodegc_push too]
Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
parent 7cf2b0f9
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