On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:16:53 -0800
Zach Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ugh, I thought the preallocation was getting freed elsewhere, but it
> > looks like I was wrong. We can't just skip the i_mutex after all,
> > sorry.
>
> Ah, so none of those tests at the top will stop tail packing if
> there's been pre-allocation?
>
> Like, uh, the inode reference count test?
>
It always drops prealloc, regardless of i_count. One fix is to change
the prealloc routines to take/drop a reference on the inode.
preallocation is already dropped when the transaction ends, so things
would continue working.
-chris
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