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ext4: fix the number of credits needed for ext4_unlink() and ext4_rmd…
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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>
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Theodore Ts'o committed Feb 9, 2013
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6 changes: 0 additions & 6 deletions fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
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#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
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions fs/ext4/namei.c
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Expand Up @@ -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;
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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;
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