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_mount.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
index ba5d42abf66e..d2eaebd85abf 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ struct xfs_error_cfg {
  */
 struct xfs_inodegc {
 	struct llist_head	list;
-	struct work_struct	work;
+	struct delayed_work	work;
 
 	/* approximate count of inodes in the list */
 	unsigned int		items;