ext4: Switch to non delalloc mode when we are low on free blocks count.

The delayed allocation code allocates blocks during writepages(), which
can not handle block allocation failures.  To deal with this, we switch
away from delayed allocation mode when we are running low on free
blocks.  This also allows us to avoid needing to reserve a large number
of meta-data blocks in case all of the requested blocks are
discontiguous.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 50 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 7875a2dd54b9..b1a6a7373f07 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2458,6 +2458,33 @@ out_writepages:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+#define FALL_BACK_TO_NONDELALLOC 1
+static int ext4_nonda_switch(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	s64 free_blocks, dirty_blocks;
+	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
+
+	/*
+	 * switch to non delalloc mode if we are running low
+	 * on free block. The free block accounting via percpu
+	 * counters can get slightly wrong with FBC_BATCH getting
+	 * accumulated on each CPU without updating global counters
+	 * Delalloc need an accurate free block accounting. So switch
+	 * to non delalloc when we are near to error range.
+	 */
+	free_blocks  = percpu_counter_read_positive(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter);
+	dirty_blocks = percpu_counter_read_positive(&sbi->s_dirtyblocks_counter);
+	if (2 * free_blocks < 3 * dirty_blocks ||
+		free_blocks < (dirty_blocks + EXT4_FREEBLOCKS_WATERMARK)) {
+		/*
+		 * free block count is less that 150% of dirty blocks
+		 * or free blocks is less that watermark
+		 */
+		return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int ext4_da_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 				loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
 				struct page **pagep, void **fsdata)
@@ -2472,6 +2499,13 @@ static int ext4_da_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 	index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 	from = pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
 	to = from + len;
+
+	if (ext4_nonda_switch(inode->i_sb)) {
+		*fsdata = (void *)FALL_BACK_TO_NONDELALLOC;
+		return ext4_write_begin(file, mapping, pos,
+					len, flags, pagep, fsdata);
+	}
+	*fsdata = (void *)0;
 retry:
 	/*
 	 * With delayed allocation, we don't log the i_disksize update
@@ -2540,6 +2574,19 @@ static int ext4_da_write_end(struct file *file,
 	handle_t *handle = ext4_journal_current_handle();
 	loff_t new_i_size;
 	unsigned long start, end;
+	int write_mode = (int)(unsigned long)fsdata;
+
+	if (write_mode == FALL_BACK_TO_NONDELALLOC) {
+		if (ext4_should_order_data(inode)) {
+			return ext4_ordered_write_end(file, mapping, pos,
+					len, copied, page, fsdata);
+		} else if (ext4_should_writeback_data(inode)) {
+			return ext4_writeback_write_end(file, mapping, pos,
+					len, copied, page, fsdata);
+		} else {
+			BUG();
+		}
+	}
 
 	start = pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
 	end = start + copied - 1;
@@ -4877,6 +4924,7 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page)
 	loff_t size;
 	unsigned long len;
 	int ret = -EINVAL;
+	void *fsdata;
 	struct file *file = vma->vm_file;
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
 	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
@@ -4915,11 +4963,11 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page)
 	 * on the same page though
 	 */
 	ret = mapping->a_ops->write_begin(file, mapping, page_offset(page),
-			len, AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, &page, NULL);
+			len, AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, &page, &fsdata);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out_unlock;
 	ret = mapping->a_ops->write_end(file, mapping, page_offset(page),
-			len, len, page, NULL);
+			len, len, page, fsdata);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out_unlock;
 	ret = 0;