xfs: bound maximum wait time for inodegc work

Currently inodegc work can sit queued on the per-cpu queue until
the workqueue is either flushed of the queue reaches a depth that
triggers work queuing (and later throttling). This means that we
could queue work that waits for a long time for some other event to
trigger flushing.

Hence instead of just queueing work at a specific depth, use a
delayed work that queues the work at a bound time. We can still
schedule the work immediately at a given depth, but we no long need
to worry about leaving a number of items on the list that won't get
processed until external events prevail.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index a6e7b4176faf..43716655f2d9 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ xfs_inodegc_init_percpu(
 		gc = per_cpu_ptr(mp->m_inodegc, cpu);
 		init_llist_head(&gc->list);
 		gc->items = 0;
-		INIT_WORK(&gc->work, xfs_inodegc_worker);
+		INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&gc->work, xfs_inodegc_worker);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }