>>>>> Stephen C Tweedie (SCT) writes:

 SCT> If you returned them to the handle directly, it would be slightly more
 SCT> efficient.

good point. thanks. here is the fixed patch.


during truncate ext3 calls journal_forget() for freed blocks, but
before these blocks go to the transaction and jbd reserves space
in log for them (->t_outstanding_credits). also, journal_forget()
removes these blocks from the transaction, but doesn't correct
log space reservation. for example, removal of 500MB file reserves
136 blocks, but only 10 blocks go to the log. a commit is expensive
and correct reservation allows us to avoid needless commits. here
is the patch. tested on UP.



Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.7/fs/jbd/transaction.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.7.orig/fs/jbd/transaction.c       2004-08-26 17:12:40.000000000 
+0400
+++ linux-2.6.7/fs/jbd/transaction.c    2005-01-24 22:51:34.000000000 +0300
@@ -1204,6 +1204,7 @@
        transaction_t *transaction = handle->h_transaction;
        journal_t *journal = transaction->t_journal;
        struct journal_head *jh;
+       int drop_reserve = 0;
 
        BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "entry");
 
@@ -1227,6 +1228,7 @@
                J_ASSERT_JH(jh, !jh->b_committed_data);
 
                __journal_unfile_buffer(jh);
+               drop_reserve = 1;
 
                /* 
                 * We are no longer going to journal this buffer.
@@ -1249,7 +1251,7 @@
                                spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
                                jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
                                __bforget(bh);
-                               return;
+                               goto drop;
                        }
                }
        } else if (jh->b_transaction) {
@@ -1264,6 +1266,7 @@
                if (jh->b_next_transaction) {
                        J_ASSERT(jh->b_next_transaction == transaction);
                        jh->b_next_transaction = NULL;
+                       drop_reserve = 1;
                }
        }
 
@@ -1271,6 +1274,13 @@
        spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
        jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
        __brelse(bh);
+
+drop:
+       if (drop_reserve) {
+               /* no need to reserve log space for this block -bzzz */
+               handle->h_buffer_credits++;
+       }
+
        return;
 }
 

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