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Jan Schmidt
d42244a0d3 Btrfs: resolve tree mod log locking issue in btrfs_next_leaf
With the tree mod log, we may end up with two roots (the current root and a
rewinded version of it) both pointing to two leaves, l1 and l2, of which l2
had already been cow-ed in the current transaction. If we don't rewind any
tree blocks, we cannot have two roots both pointing to an already cowed tree
block.

Now there is btrfs_next_leaf, which has a leaf locked and wants a lock on
the next (right) leaf. And there is push_leaf_left, which has a (cowed!)
leaf locked and wants a lock on the previous (left) leaf.

In order to solve this dead lock situation, we use try_lock in
btrfs_next_leaf (only in case it's called with a tree mod log time_seq
paramter) and if we fail to get a lock on the next leaf, we give up our lock
on the current leaf and retry from the very beginning.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-06-27 16:34:40 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
19956c7e94 Btrfs: fix tree mod log rewind of ADD operations
When a MOD_LOG_KEY_ADD operation is rewinded, we remove the key from the
tree block. If its not the last key, removal involves a move operation.
This move operation was explicitly done before this commit.

However, at insertion time, there's a move operation before the actual
addition to make room for the new key, which is recorded in the tree mod
log as well. This means, we must drop the move operation when rewinding the
add operation, because the next operation we'll be rewinding will be the
corresponding MOD_LOG_MOVE_KEYS operation.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-06-27 16:34:40 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
c3e0696523 Btrfs: always put insert_ptr modifications into the tree mod log
Several callers of insert_ptr set the tree_mod_log parameter to 0 to avoid
addition to the tree mod log. In fact, we need all of those operations. This
commit simply removes the additional parameter and makes addition to the
tree mod log unconditional.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-06-27 16:34:39 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
28da9fb446 Btrfs: fix tree mod log for root replacements at leaf level
For the tree mod log, we don't log any operations at leaf level. If the root
is at the leaf level (i.e. the tree consists only of the root), then
__tree_mod_log_oldest_root will find a ROOT_REPLACE operation in the log
(because we always log that one no matter which level), but no other
operations.

With this patch __tree_mod_log_oldest_root exits cleanly instead of
BUGging in this situation. get_old_root checks if its really a root at leaf
level in case we don't have any operations and WARNs if this assumption
breaks.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-06-27 16:34:38 +02:00
Chris Mason
4325edd078 Btrfs: init old_generation in get_old_root
gcc was giving an uninit variable warning here.  Strictly
speaking we don't need to init it, but this will make things
much less error prone.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
2012-06-15 20:06:54 -04:00
Jan Schmidt
3310c36eef Btrfs: fix race in tree mod log addition
When adding to the tree modification log, we grab two locks at different
stages. We must not drop the outer lock until we're done with section
protected by the inner lock. This moves the unlock call for the outer lock
to the appropriate position.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-06-14 18:52:39 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
3d7806eca4 Btrfs: add btrfs_next_old_leaf
To make sense of the tree mod log, the backref walker not only needs
btrfs_search_old_slot, but it also called btrfs_next_leaf, which in turn was
calling btrfs_search_slot. This obviously didn't give the correct result.

This commit adds btrfs_next_old_leaf, a drop-in replacement for
btrfs_next_leaf with a time_seq parameter. If it is zero, it behaves exactly
like btrfs_next_leaf. If it is non-zero, it will use btrfs_search_old_slot
with this time_seq parameter.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-06-14 18:52:09 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
a95236d99f Btrfs: fix return value for __tree_mod_log_oldest_root
In __tree_mod_log_oldest_root() we must return the found operation even if
it's not a ROOT_REPLACE operation. Otherwise, the caller assumes that there
are no operations to be rewinded and returns immediately.

The code in the caller is modified to improve readability.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-06-14 18:44:22 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
8ba97a15e7 Btrfs: use btrfs_read_lock_root_node in get_old_root
get_old_root could race with root node updates because we weren't locking
the node early enough. Use btrfs_read_lock_root_node to grab the root locked
in the very beginning and release the lock as soon as possible (just like
btrfs_search_slot does).

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-06-14 18:44:21 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
4d5a0565ce Btrfs: remove call to btrfs_header_nritems with no effect
This is a leftover from cleanup patch 559af821. Before the cleanup,
btrfs_header_nritems was called inside an if condition. As it has no side
effects we need to preserve here, it should simply be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-06-04 14:35:29 +02:00
Chris Mason
1e20932a23 Merge branch 'for-chris' of git://git.jan-o-sch.net/btrfs-unstable into for-linus
Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/ulist.h

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2012-05-31 16:49:53 -04:00
Jan Schmidt
c31931088f Btrfs: fix tree mod log rewinded level and rewinding of moved keys
When we rewind REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING operations, there's code that allocates
a fresh buffer instead of cloning the old one. Setting that buffer's level
correctly was missing in this case.

When rewinding a MOVE_KEYS operation, btrfs_node_key_ptr_offset(slot) was
missing for memmove_extent_buffer()'s arguments.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-05-31 19:56:19 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
f395694c2c Btrfs: fix tree mod log del_ptr
Logging for del_ptr when we're not deleting the last pointer was wrong. This
fixes both, duplicate log entries and log sequence.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-05-31 19:56:19 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
e9b7fd4d8b Btrfs: add tree_mod_dont_log helper
Replace duplicate code by small inline helper function.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-05-31 19:56:18 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
926dd8a640 Btrfs: add missing spin_lock for insertion into tree mod log
tree_mod_alloc calls __get_tree_mod_seq and must acquire a spinlock before
doing so.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-05-31 19:56:18 +02:00
Tsutomu Itoh
018642a1f1 Btrfs: return value of btrfs_read_buffer is checked correctly
btrfs_read_buffer() has the possibility of returning the error.
Therefore, I add the code in which the return value of btrfs_read_buffer()
is checked.

Signed-off-by: Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
2012-05-30 10:23:41 -04:00
Jan Schmidt
5d9e75c41d Btrfs: add btrfs_search_old_slot
The tree modification log together with the current state of the tree gives
a consistent, old version of the tree. btrfs_search_old_slot is used to
search through this old version and return old (dummy!) extent buffers.
Naturally, this function cannot do any tree modifications.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-05-30 15:17:33 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
f3ea38da3e Btrfs: add del_ptr and insert_ptr modifications to the tree mod log
Record all relevant modifications to block pointers in the tree mod log so
that we can rewind them later on for backref walking.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-05-30 15:17:32 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
f230475e62 Btrfs: put all block modifications into the tree mod log
When running functions that can make changes to the internal trees
(e.g. btrfs_search_slot), we check if somebody may be interested in the
block we're currently modifying. If so, we record our modification to be
able to rewind it later on.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-05-30 15:17:29 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
bd989ba359 Btrfs: add tree modification log functions
The tree mod log will log modifications made fs-tree nodes. Most
modifications are done by autobalance of the tree. Such changes are recorded
as long as a block entry exists. When released, the log is cleaned.

With the tree modification log, it's possible to reconstruct a consistent
old state of the tree. This is required to do backref walking on a busy
file system.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-05-30 15:17:01 +02:00
Jan Schmidt
5581a51a59 Btrfs: don't set for_cow parameter for tree block functions
Three callers of btrfs_free_tree_block or btrfs_alloc_tree_block passed
parameter for_cow = 1. In fact, these two functions should never mark
their tree modification operations as for_cow, because they can change
the number of blocks referenced by a tree.

Hence, we remove the extra for_cow parameter from these functions and
make them pass a zero down.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2012-05-26 12:17:53 +02:00
Wang Sheng-Hui
f775738f6f btrfs/ctree.c: remove the unnecessary 'return -1;' at the end of bin_search
The code path should not reach there. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
2012-05-11 10:56:37 -04:00
Chris Mason
b9fab919b7 Btrfs: avoid sleeping in verify_parent_transid while atomic
verify_parent_transid needs to lock the extent range to make
sure no IO is underway, and so it can safely clear the
uptodate bits if our checks fail.

But, a few callers are using it with spinlocks held.  Most
of the time, the generation numbers are going to match, and
we don't want to switch to a blocking lock just for the error
case.  This adds an atomic flag to verify_parent_transid,
and changes it to return EAGAIN if it needs to block to
properly verifiy things.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2012-05-06 07:23:47 -04:00
Chris Mason
e5846fc665 Btrfs: Add properly locking around add_root_to_dirty_list
add_root_to_dirty_list happens once at the very beginning of the
transaction, but it is still racey.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2012-05-04 15:14:11 -04:00
Chris Mason
1d4284bd6e Merge branch 'error-handling' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/ctree.c
	fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
	fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.h
	fs/btrfs/inode.c
	fs/btrfs/scrub.c

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2012-03-28 20:31:37 -04:00
Chris Mason
f7c79f30cb Btrfs: adjust the write_lock_level as we unlock
btrfs_search_slot sometimes needs write locks on high levels of
the tree.  It remembers the highest level that needs a write lock
and will use that for all future searches through the tree in a given
call.

But, very often we'll just cow the top level or the level below and we
won't really need write locks on the root again after that.  This patch
changes things to adjust the write lock requirement as it unlocks
levels.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2012-03-26 17:04:24 -04:00
Chris Mason
cfed81a04e Btrfs: add the ability to cache a pointer into the eb
This cuts down on the CPU time used by map_private_extent_buffer

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2012-03-26 17:04:23 -04:00
Josef Bacik
3083ee2e18 Btrfs: introduce free_extent_buffer_stale
Because btrfs cow's we can end up with extent buffers that are no longer
necessary just sitting around in memory.  So instead of evicting these pages, we
could end up evicting things we actually care about.  Thus we have
free_extent_buffer_stale for use when we are freeing tree blocks.  This will
make it so that the ref for the eb being in the radix tree is dropped as soon as
possible and then is freed when the refcount hits 0 instead of waiting to be
released by releasepage.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2012-03-26 16:51:08 -04:00
Jeff Mahoney
79787eaab4 btrfs: replace many BUG_ONs with proper error handling
btrfs currently handles most errors with BUG_ON. This patch is a work-in-
 progress but aims to handle most errors other than internal logic
 errors and ENOMEM more gracefully.

 This iteration prevents most crashes but can run into lockups with
 the page lock on occasion when the timing "works out."

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
2012-03-22 11:52:54 +01:00
Mark Fasheh
305a26af5b btrfs: Go readonly on tree errors in balance_level
balace_level() seems to deal with missing tree nodes by BUG_ON(). Instead,
we can easily just set the file system readonly and bubble -EROFS back up
the stack.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2012-03-22 01:45:38 +01:00
Mark Fasheh
b68dc2a93e btrfs: Don't BUG_ON errors from update_ref_for_cow()
__btrfs_cow_block(), the only caller of update_ref_for_cow() will BUG_ON()
any error return.  Instead, we can go read-only fs as update_ref_for_cow()
manipulates disk data in a way which doesn't look like it's easily rolled
back.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>
2012-03-22 01:45:38 +01:00
Mark Fasheh
e5df957328 btrfs: Go readonly on bad extent refs in update_ref_for_cow()
update_ref_for_cow() will BUG_ON() after it's call to
btrfs_lookup_extent_info() if no existing references are found.  Since refs
are computed directly from disk, this should be treated as a corruption
instead of a logic error.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>
2012-03-22 01:45:37 +01:00
Mark Fasheh
be1a5564fd btrfs: Don't BUG_ON() errors in update_ref_for_cow()
The only caller of update_ref_for_cow() is __btrfs_cow_block() which was
originally ignoring any return values. update_ref_for_cow() however doesn't
look like a candidate to become a void function - there are a few places
where errors can occur.

So instead I changed update_ref_for_cow() to bubble all errors up (instead
of BUG_ON). __btrfs_cow_block() was then updated to catch and BUG_ON() any
errors from update_ref_for_cow(). The end effect is that we have no change
in behavior, but about 8 different places where a BUG_ON(ret) was removed.

Obviously a future patch will have to address the BUG_ON() in
__btrfs_cow_block().

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>
2012-03-22 01:45:36 +01:00
Jeff Mahoney
143bede527 btrfs: return void in functions without error conditions
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
2012-03-22 01:45:34 +01:00
Arne Jansen
66d7e7f09f Btrfs: mark delayed refs as for cow
Add a for_cow parameter to add_delayed_*_ref and pass the appropriate value
from every call site. The for_cow parameter will later on be used to
determine if a ref will change anything with respect to qgroups.

Delayed refs coming from relocation are always counted as for_cow, as they
don't change subvol quota.

Also pass in the fs_info for later use.

btrfs_find_all_roots() will use this as an optimization, as changes that are
for_cow will not change anything with respect to which root points to a
certain leaf. Thus, we don't need to add the current sequence number to
those delayed refs.

Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
2011-12-22 16:22:27 +01:00
Liu Bo
f1ebcc74d5 Btrfs: fix tree corruption after multi-thread snapshots and inode_cache flush
The btrfs snapshotting code requires that once a root has been
snapshotted, we don't change it during a commit.

But there are two cases to lead to tree corruptions:

1) multi-thread snapshots can commit serveral snapshots in a transaction,
   and this may change the src root when processing the following pending
   snapshots, which lead to the former snapshots corruptions;

2) the free inode cache was changing the roots when it root the cache,
   which lead to corruptions.

This fixes things by making sure we force COW the block after we create a
snapshot during commiting a transaction, then any changes to the roots
will result in COW, and we get all the fs roots and snapshot roots to be
consistent.

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-11-15 09:53:28 -05:00
Li Zefan
a05a9bb18a Btrfs: fix array bound checking
Otherwise we can execced the array bound of path->slots[].

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2011-10-20 18:10:41 +02:00
Chris Mason
31533fb263 Btrfs: remove lockdep magic from btrfs_next_leaf
Before the reader/writer locks, btrfs_next_leaf needed to keep
the path blocking to avoid making lockdep upset.

Now that btrfs_next_leaf only takes read locks, this isn't required.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-07-27 12:46:47 -04:00
Chris Mason
bd681513fa Btrfs: switch the btrfs tree locks to reader/writer
The btrfs metadata btree is the source of significant
lock contention, especially in the root node.   This
commit changes our locking to use a reader/writer
lock.

The lock is built on top of rw spinlocks, and it
extends the lock tracking to remember if we have a
read lock or a write lock when we go to blocking.  Atomics
count the number of blocking readers or writers at any
given time.

It removes all of the adaptive spinning from the old code
and uses only the spinning/blocking hints inside of btrfs
to decide when it should continue spinning.

In read heavy workloads this is dramatically faster.  In write
heavy workloads we're still faster because of less contention
on the root node lock.

We suffer slightly in dbench because we schedule more often
during write locks, but all other benchmarks so far are improved.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-07-27 12:46:46 -04:00
Chris Mason
a65917156e Btrfs: stop using highmem for extent_buffers
The extent_buffers have a very complex interface where
we use HIGHMEM for metadata and try to cache a kmap mapping
to access the memory.

The next commit adds reader/writer locks, and concurrent use
of this kmap cache would make it even more complex.

This commit drops the ability to use HIGHMEM with extent buffers,
and rips out all of the related code.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-07-27 12:46:45 -04:00
Josef Bacik
25b8b936ed Btrfs: don't map extent buffer if path->skip_locking is set
Arne's scrub stuff exposed a problem with mapping the extent buffer in
reada_for_search.  He searches the commit root with multiple threads and with
skip_locking set, so we can race and overwrite node->map_token since node isn't
locked.  So fix this so that we only map the extent buffer if we don't already
have a map_token and skip_locking isn't set.  Without this patch scrub would
panic almost immediately, with the patch it doesn't panic anymore.  Thanks,

Reported-by: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2011-06-09 10:12:07 -04:00
Chris Mason
ff5714cca9 Merge branch 'for-chris' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josef/btrfs-work into for-linus

Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
	fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
	fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
	fs/btrfs/inode.c
	fs/btrfs/transaction.c

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-28 07:00:39 -04:00
Chris Mason
d6c0cb379c Merge branch 'cleanups_and_fixes' into inode_numbers
Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
	fs/btrfs/volumes.c

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-23 14:37:47 -04:00
Tsutomu Itoh
1cd307990d Btrfs: BUG_ON is deleted from the caller of btrfs_truncate_item & btrfs_extend_item
Currently, btrfs_truncate_item and btrfs_extend_item returns only 0.
So, the check by BUG_ON in the caller is unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-23 13:24:39 -04:00
Josef Bacik
026fd31782 Btrfs: don't always do readahead
Our readahead is sort of sloppy, and really isn't always needed.  For example if
ls is doing a stating ls (which is the default) it's going to stat in non-disk
order, so if say you have a directory with a stupid amount of files, readahead
is going to do nothing but waste time in the case of doing the stat.  Taking the
unconditional readahead out made my test go from 57 minutes to 36 minutes.  This
means that everywhere we do loop through the tree we want to make sure we do set
path->reada properly, so I went through and found all of the places where we
loop through the path and set reada to 1.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2011-05-23 13:03:14 -04:00
Josef Bacik
7e2355ba1a Btrfs: don't look at the extent buffer level 3 times in a row
We have a bit of debugging in btrfs_search_slot to make sure the level of the
cow block is the same as the original block we were cow'ing.  I don't think I've
ever seen this tripped, so kill it.  This saves us 2 kmap's per level in our
search.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2011-05-23 13:03:11 -04:00
Josef Bacik
cb25c2ea6a Btrfs: map the node block when looking for readahead targets
If we have particularly full nodes, we could call btrfs_node_blockptr up to 32
times, which is 32 pairs of kmap/kunmap, which _sucks_.  So go ahead and map the
extent buffer while we look for readahead targets.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2011-05-23 13:03:10 -04:00
Chris Mason
945d8962ce Merge branch 'cleanups' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/btrfs-unstable into inode_numbers
Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
	fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
	fs/btrfs/inode.c
	fs/btrfs/tree-log.c

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-22 12:33:42 -04:00
Miao Xie
16cdcec736 btrfs: implement delayed inode items operation
Changelog V5 -> V6:
- Fix oom when the memory load is high, by storing the delayed nodes into the
  root's radix tree, and letting btrfs inodes go.

Changelog V4 -> V5:
- Fix the race on adding the delayed node to the inode, which is spotted by
  Chris Mason.
- Merge Chris Mason's incremental patch into this patch.
- Fix deadlock between readdir() and memory fault, which is reported by
  Itaru Kitayama.

Changelog V3 -> V4:
- Fix nested lock, which is reported by Itaru Kitayama, by updating space cache
  inode in time.

Changelog V2 -> V3:
- Fix the race between the delayed worker and the task which does delayed items
  balance, which is reported by Tsutomu Itoh.
- Modify the patch address David Sterba's comment.
- Fix the bug of the cpu recursion spinlock, reported by Chris Mason

Changelog V1 -> V2:
- break up the global rb-tree, use a list to manage the delayed nodes,
  which is created for every directory and file, and used to manage the
  delayed directory name index items and the delayed inode item.
- introduce a worker to deal with the delayed nodes.

Compare with Ext3/4, the performance of file creation and deletion on btrfs
is very poor. the reason is that btrfs must do a lot of b+ tree insertions,
such as inode item, directory name item, directory name index and so on.

If we can do some delayed b+ tree insertion or deletion, we can improve the
performance, so we made this patch which implemented delayed directory name
index insertion/deletion and delayed inode update.

Implementation:
- introduce a delayed root object into the filesystem, that use two lists to
  manage the delayed nodes which are created for every file/directory.
  One is used to manage all the delayed nodes that have delayed items. And the
  other is used to manage the delayed nodes which is waiting to be dealt with
  by the work thread.
- Every delayed node has two rb-tree, one is used to manage the directory name
  index which is going to be inserted into b+ tree, and the other is used to
  manage the directory name index which is going to be deleted from b+ tree.
- introduce a worker to deal with the delayed operation. This worker is used
  to deal with the works of the delayed directory name index items insertion
  and deletion and the delayed inode update.
  When the delayed items is beyond the lower limit, we create works for some
  delayed nodes and insert them into the work queue of the worker, and then
  go back.
  When the delayed items is beyond the upper bound, we create works for all
  the delayed nodes that haven't been dealt with, and insert them into the work
  queue of the worker, and then wait for that the untreated items is below some
  threshold value.
- When we want to insert a directory name index into b+ tree, we just add the
  information into the delayed inserting rb-tree.
  And then we check the number of the delayed items and do delayed items
  balance. (The balance policy is above.)
- When we want to delete a directory name index from the b+ tree, we search it
  in the inserting rb-tree at first. If we look it up, just drop it. If not,
  add the key of it into the delayed deleting rb-tree.
  Similar to the delayed inserting rb-tree, we also check the number of the
  delayed items and do delayed items balance.
  (The same to inserting manipulation)
- When we want to update the metadata of some inode, we cached the data of the
  inode into the delayed node. the worker will flush it into the b+ tree after
  dealing with the delayed insertion and deletion.
- We will move the delayed node to the tail of the list after we access the
  delayed node, By this way, we can cache more delayed items and merge more
  inode updates.
- If we want to commit transaction, we will deal with all the delayed node.
- the delayed node will be freed when we free the btrfs inode.
- Before we log the inode items, we commit all the directory name index items
  and the delayed inode update.

I did a quick test by the benchmark tool[1] and found we can improve the
performance of file creation by ~15%, and file deletion by ~20%.

Before applying this patch:
Create files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.096108
        Average time: 0.000022
Delete files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.510403
        Average time: 0.000030

After applying this patch:
Create files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 0.932899
        Average time: 0.000019
Delete files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.215732
        Average time: 0.000024

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&m=128212635122920&q=p3

Many thanks for Kitayama-san's help!

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dave@jikos.cz>
Tested-by: Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Itaru Kitayama <kitayama@cl.bb4u.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-21 09:30:56 -04:00
David Sterba
b3b4aa74b5 btrfs: drop unused parameter from btrfs_release_path
parameter tree root it's not used since commit
5f39d397df ("Btrfs: Create extent_buffer
interface for large blocksizes")

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
2011-05-02 13:57:22 +02:00