1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c
index 9d1aeb7e2734..4f33c32affe3 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c
@@ -1074,13 +1074,13 @@ restart:
          * If we couldn't get anything, give up.
          */
         if (bno_cur_lt == NULL && bno_cur_gt == NULL) {
+                xfs_btree_del_cursor(cnt_cur, XFS_BTREE_NOERROR);
+
                 if (!forced++) {
                         trace_xfs_alloc_near_busy(args);
                         xfs_log_force(args->mp, XFS_LOG_SYNC);
                         goto restart;
                 }
-
-                xfs_btree_del_cursor(cnt_cur, XFS_BTREE_NOERROR);
                 trace_xfs_alloc_size_neither(args);
                 args->agbno = NULLAGBLOCK;
                 return 0;
@@ -2434,13 +2434,22 @@ xfs_alloc_vextent_worker(
         current_restore_flags_nested(&pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
 }
 
-
-int                             /* error */
+/*
+ * Data allocation requests often come in with little stack to work on. Push
+ * them off to a worker thread so there is lots of stack to use. Metadata
+ * requests, OTOH, are generally from low stack usage paths, so avoid the
+ * context switch overhead here.
+ */
+int
 xfs_alloc_vextent(
-        xfs_alloc_arg_t *args)  /* allocation argument structure */
+        struct xfs_alloc_arg    *args)
 {
         DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
 
+        if (!args->userdata)
+                return __xfs_alloc_vextent(args);
+
+
         args->done = &done;
         INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&args->work, xfs_alloc_vextent_worker);
         queue_work(xfs_alloc_wq, &args->work);