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If we create a new file we will need an inode, and usually some metadata in the parent direction. Aiming for everything to go well despite the lack of a reservation leads to dirty transactions cancelled under a heavy create/delete load. This patch removes those nospace transactions, which will lead to slightly earlier ENOSPC on some workloads, but instead prevent file system shutdowns due to cancelling dirty transactions for others. A customer could observe assertations failures and shutdowns due to cancelation of dirty transactions during heavy NFS workloads as shown below: 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728125] XFS: Assertion failed: error != -ENOSPC, file: fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c, line: 1262 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728222] Call Trace: 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728246] [<ffffffff81795daf>] dump_stack+0x63/0x81 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728262] [<ffffffff810a1a5a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8a/0xc0 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728264] [<ffffffff810a1b8a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728285] [<ffffffffa01bf403>] asswarn+0x33/0x40 [xfs] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728308] [<ffffffffa01bb07e>] xfs_create+0x7be/0x7d0 [xfs] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728329] [<ffffffffa01b6ffb>] xfs_generic_create+0x1fb/0x2e0 [xfs] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728348] [<ffffffffa01b7114>] xfs_vn_mknod+0x14/0x20 [xfs] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728366] [<ffffffffa01b7153>] xfs_vn_create+0x13/0x20 [xfs] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728380] [<ffffffff81231de5>] vfs_create+0xd5/0x140 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728390] [<ffffffffa045ddb9>] do_nfsd_create+0x499/0x610 [nfsd] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728396] [<ffffffffa0465fa5>] nfsd3_proc_create+0x135/0x210 [nfsd] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728401] [<ffffffffa04561e3>] nfsd_dispatch+0xc3/0x210 [nfsd] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728416] [<ffffffffa03bfa43>] svc_process_common+0x453/0x6f0 [sunrpc] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728423] [<ffffffffa03bfdf3>] svc_process+0x113/0x1f0 [sunrpc] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728427] [<ffffffffa0455bcf>] nfsd+0x10f/0x180 [nfsd] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728432] [<ffffffffa0455ac0>] ? nfsd_destroy+0x80/0x80 [nfsd] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728438] [<ffffffff810c0d58>] kthread+0xd8/0xf0 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728441] [<ffffffff810c0c80>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1b0/0x1b0 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728451] [<ffffffff8179d962>] ret_from_fork+0x42/0x70 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728453] [<ffffffff810c0c80>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1b0/0x1b0 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: WARNING: [ 2670.728454] ---[ end trace f9822c842fec81d4 ]--- 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: ALERT: [ 2670.728477] XFS (sdb): Internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 983 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c. Caller xfs_create+0x4ee/0x7d0 [xfs] 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: ALERT: [ 2670.728684] XFS (sdb): Corruption of in-memory data detected. Shutting down filesystem 2017-05-30 21:17:06 kernel: ALERT: [ 2670.728685] XFS (sdb): Please umount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s) Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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