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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2013-02-10 00:06:24 +0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2013-02-10 00:06:24 +0400 |
| commit | 64044abf05d0842a7fed30e102fa411a744c7d9f (patch) | |
| tree | 91a28727b410b354799b8bb5c1737ebf00883ce4 | |
| parent | 4b217630d0ec277c961e57f6d2985433b352c2ce (diff) | |
| download | linux-64044abf05d0842a7fed30e102fa411a744c7d9f.tar.xz | |
ext4: fix the number of credits needed for ext4_unlink() and ext4_rmdir()
The ext4_unlink() and ext4_rmdir() don't actually release the blocks
associated with the file/directory. This gets done in a separate jbd2
handle called via ext4_evict_inode(). Thus, we don't need to reserve
lots of journal credits for the truncate.
Note that using too many journal credits is non-optimal because it can
leading to the journal transmit getting closed too early, before it is
strictly necessary.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/namei.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h index 302814b85945..c1fc2dca14ae 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h @@ -59,12 +59,6 @@ #define EXT4_META_TRANS_BLOCKS(sb) (EXT4_XATTR_TRANS_BLOCKS + \ EXT4_MAXQUOTAS_TRANS_BLOCKS(sb)) -/* Delete operations potentially hit one directory's namespace plus an - * entire inode, plus arbitrary amounts of bitmap/indirection data. Be - * generous. We can grow the delete transaction later if necessary. */ - -#define EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(sb) (2 * EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(sb) + 64) - /* Define an arbitrary limit for the amount of data we will anticipate * writing to any given transaction. For unbounded transactions such as * write(2) and truncate(2) we can write more than this, but we always diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 36a4afd12f39..5f3d2b569c63 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -2748,7 +2748,7 @@ static int ext4_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) goto end_rmdir; handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR, - EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb)); + EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb)); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { retval = PTR_ERR(handle); handle = NULL; @@ -2811,7 +2811,7 @@ static int ext4_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) goto end_unlink; handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR, - EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb)); + EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb)); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { retval = PTR_ERR(handle); handle = NULL; |