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Commit 17bd55d0 authored by Eric Sandeen's avatar Eric Sandeen Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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fs-writeback: Add helper function to start writeback if idle



ext4, at least, would like to start pushing on writeback if it starts
to get close to ENOSPC when reserving worst-case blocks for delalloc
writes.  Writing out delalloc data will convert those worst-case
predictions into usually smaller actual usage, freeing up space
before we hit ENOSPC based on this speculation.

Thanks to Jens for the suggestion for the helper function,
& the naming help.

I've made the helper return status on whether writeback was
started even though I don't plan to use it in the ext4 patch;
it seems like it would be potentially useful to test this
in some cases.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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