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Inside of FB, as well as some user reports, we've had a consistent problem of occasional ENOSPC transaction aborts. Inside FB we were seeing ~100-200 ENOSPC aborts per day in the fleet, which is a really low occurrence rate given the size of our fleet, but it's not nothing. There are two causes of this particular problem. First is delayed allocation. The reservation system for delalloc assumes that contiguous dirty ranges will result in 1 file extent item. However if there is memory pressure that results in fragmented writeout, or there is fragmentation in the block groups, this won't necessarily be true. Consider the case where we do a single 256MiB write to a file and then close it. We will have 1 reservation for the inode update, the reservations for the checksum updates, and 1 reservation for the file extent item. At some point later we decide to write this entire range out, but we're so fragmented that we break this into 100 different file extents. Since we've already closed the file and are no longer writing to it there's nothing to trigger a refill of the delalloc block rsv to satisfy the 99 new file extent reservations we need. At this point we exhaust our delalloc reservation, and we begin to steal from the global reserve. If you have enough of these cases going in parallel you can easily exhaust the global reserve, get an ENOSPC at btrfs_alloc_tree_block() time, and then abort the transaction. The other case is the delayed refs reserve. The delayed refs reserve updates its size based on outstanding delayed refs and dirty block groups. However we only refill this block reserve when returning excess reservations and when we call btrfs_start_transaction(root, X). We will reserve 2*X credits at transaction start time, and fill in X into the delayed refs reserve to make sure it stays topped off. Generally this works well, but clearly has downsides. If we do a particularly delayed ref heavy operation we may never catch up in our reservations. Additionally running delayed refs generates more delayed refs, and at that point we may be committing the transaction and have no way to trigger a refill of our delayed refs rsv. Then a similar thing occurs with the delalloc reserve. Generally speaking we well over-reserve in all of our block rsvs. If we reserve 1 credit we're usually reserving around 264k of space, but we'll often not use any of that reservation, or use a few blocks of that reservation. We can be reasonably sure that as long as you were able to reserve space up front for your operation you'll be able to find space on disk for that reservation. So introduce a new flushing state, BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_EMERGENCY. This gets used in the case that we've exhausted our reserve and the global reserve. It simply forces a reservation if we have enough actual space on disk to make the reservation, which is almost always the case. This keeps us from hitting ENOSPC aborts in these odd occurrences where we've not kept up with the delayed work. Fixing this in a complete way is going to be relatively complicated and time consuming. This patch is what I discussed with Filipe earlier this year, and what I put into our kernels inside FB. With this patch we're down to 1-2 ENOSPC aborts per week, which is a significant reduction. This is a decent stop gap until we can work out a more wholistic solution to these two corner cases. Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> |
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tests | ||
acl.c | ||
async-thread.c | ||
async-thread.h | ||
backref.c | ||
backref.h | ||
block-group.c | ||
block-group.h | ||
block-rsv.c | ||
block-rsv.h | ||
btrfs_inode.h | ||
check-integrity.c | ||
check-integrity.h | ||
compression.c | ||
compression.h | ||
ctree.c | ||
ctree.h | ||
delalloc-space.c | ||
delalloc-space.h | ||
delayed-inode.c | ||
delayed-inode.h | ||
delayed-ref.c | ||
delayed-ref.h | ||
dev-replace.c | ||
dev-replace.h | ||
dir-item.c | ||
discard.c | ||
discard.h | ||
disk-io.c | ||
disk-io.h | ||
export.c | ||
export.h | ||
extent_io.c | ||
extent_io.h | ||
extent_map.c | ||
extent_map.h | ||
extent-io-tree.c | ||
extent-io-tree.h | ||
extent-tree.c | ||
file-item.c | ||
file.c | ||
free-space-cache.c | ||
free-space-cache.h | ||
free-space-tree.c | ||
free-space-tree.h | ||
inode-item.c | ||
inode-item.h | ||
inode.c | ||
ioctl.c | ||
Kconfig | ||
locking.c | ||
locking.h | ||
lzo.c | ||
Makefile | ||
misc.h | ||
ordered-data.c | ||
ordered-data.h | ||
orphan.c | ||
print-tree.c | ||
print-tree.h | ||
props.c | ||
props.h | ||
qgroup.c | ||
qgroup.h | ||
raid56.c | ||
raid56.h | ||
rcu-string.h | ||
ref-verify.c | ||
ref-verify.h | ||
reflink.c | ||
reflink.h | ||
relocation.c | ||
root-tree.c | ||
scrub.c | ||
send.c | ||
send.h | ||
space-info.c | ||
space-info.h | ||
struct-funcs.c | ||
subpage.c | ||
subpage.h | ||
super.c | ||
sysfs.c | ||
sysfs.h | ||
transaction.c | ||
transaction.h | ||
tree-checker.c | ||
tree-checker.h | ||
tree-defrag.c | ||
tree-log.c | ||
tree-log.h | ||
tree-mod-log.c | ||
tree-mod-log.h | ||
ulist.c | ||
ulist.h | ||
uuid-tree.c | ||
verity.c | ||
volumes.c | ||
volumes.h | ||
xattr.c | ||
xattr.h | ||
zlib.c | ||
zoned.c | ||
zoned.h | ||
zstd.c |