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Create a new in-memory btree type so that we can store refcount bag info
in a much more memory-efficient and performant format. Recall that the
refcount recordset regenerator computes the new recordset from browsing
the rmap records. Let's say that the rmap records are:
{agbno: 10, length: 40, ...}
{agbno: 11, length: 3, ...}
{agbno: 12, length: 20, ...}
{agbno: 15, length: 1, ...}
It is convenient to have a data structure that could quickly tell us the
refcount for an arbitrary agbno without wasting memory. An array or a
list could do that pretty easily. List suck because of the pointer
overhead. xfarrays are a lot more compact, but we want to minimize
sparse holes in the xfarray to constrain memory usage. Maintaining any
kind of record order isn't needed for correctness, so I created the
"rcbag", which is shorthand for an unordered list of (excerpted) reverse
mappings.
So we add the first rmap to the rcbag, and it looks like:
0: {agbno: 10, length: 40}
The refcount for agbno 10 is 1. Then we move on to block 11, so we add
the second rmap:
0: {agbno: 10, length: 40}
1: {agbno: 11, length: 3}
The refcount for agbno 11 is 2. We move on to block 12, so we add the
third:
0: {agbno: 10, length: 40}
1: {agbno: 11, length: 3}
2: {agbno: 12, length: 20}
The refcount for agbno 12 and 13 is 3. We move on to block 14, and
remove the second rmap:
0: {agbno: 10, length: 40}
1: NULL
2: {agbno: 12, length: 20}
The refcount for agbno 14 is 2. We move on to block 15, and add the
last rmap. But we don't care where it is and we don't want to expand
the array so we put it in slot 1:
0: {agbno: 10, length: 40}
1: {agbno: 15, length: 1}
2: {agbno: 12, length: 20}
The refcount for block 15 is 3. Notice how order doesn't matter in this
list? That's why repair uses an unordered list, or "bag". The data
structure is not a set because it does not guarantee uniqueness.
That said, adding and removing specific items is now an O(n) operation
because we have no idea where that item might be in the list. Overall,
the runtime is O(n^2) which is bad.
I realized that I could easily refactor the btree code and reimplement
the refcount bag with an xfbtree. Adding and removing is now O(log2 n),
so the runtime is at least O(n log2 n), which is much faster. In the
end, the rcbag becomes a sorted list, but that's merely a detail of the
implementation. The repair code doesn't care.
(Note: That horrible xfs_db bmap_inflate command can be used to exercise
this sort of rcbag insanity by cranking up refcounts quickly.)
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.