In some cases, we need commit the current transaction, but don't want
to start a new one if there is no running transaction, so we introduce
the function - btrfs_attach_transaction(), which can catch the current
transaction, and return -ENOENT if there is no running transaction.
But no running transaction doesn't mean the current transction completely,
because we removed the running transaction before it completes. In some
cases, it doesn't matter. But in some special cases, such as freeze fs, we
hope the transaction is fully on disk, it will introduce some bugs, for
example, we may feeze the fs and dump the data in the disk, if the transction
doesn't complete, we would dump inconsistent data. So we need fix the above
problem for those cases.
We fixes this problem by introducing a function:
btrfs_attach_transaction_barrier()
if we hope all the transaction is fully on the disk, even they are not
running, we can use this function.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Miao made the ordered operations stuff run async, which introduced a
deadlock where we could get somebody (sync) racing in and committing the
transaction while a commit was already happening. The new committer would
try and flush ordered operations which would hang waiting for the commit to
finish because it is done asynchronously and no longer inherits the callers
trans handle. To fix this we need to make the ordered operations list a per
transaction list. We can get new inodes added to the ordered operation list
by truncating them and then having another process writing to them, so this
makes it so that anybody trying to add an ordered operation _must_ start a
transaction in order to add itself to the list, which will keep new inodes
from getting added to the ordered operations list after we start committing.
This should fix the deadlock and also keeps us from doing a lot more work
than we need to during commit. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
The entry point at the defrag ioctl always sets "cache only" to 0;
the codepaths haven't run for a long time as far as I can
tell. Chris says they're dead code, so remove them.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
If we start running low on metadata space we will try to allocate a chunk,
which could then try to allocate a chunk to add the device entry. The thing
is we allocate a chunk before we try really hard to make the allocation, so
we should be able to find space for the device entry. Add a flag to the
trans handle so we know we're currently allocating a chunk so we can just
bail out if we try to allocate another chunk. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
In some places(such as: evicting inode), we just can not flush the reserved
space of delalloc, flushing the delayed directory index and delayed inode
is OK, but we don't try to flush those things and just go back when there is
no enough space to be reserved. This patch fixes this problem.
We defined 3 types of the flush operations: NO_FLUSH, FLUSH_LIMIT and FLUSH_ALL.
If we can in the transaction, we should not flush anything, or the deadlock
would happen, so use NO_FLUSH. If we flushing the reserved space of delalloc
would cause deadlock, use FLUSH_LIMIT. In the other cases, FLUSH_ALL is used,
and we will flush all things.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
With the following debug patch:
static int btrfs_freeze(struct super_block *sb)
{
+ struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = btrfs_sb(sb);
+ struct btrfs_transaction *trans;
+
+ spin_lock(&fs_info->trans_lock);
+ trans = fs_info->running_transaction;
+ if (trans) {
+ printk("Transid %llu, use_count %d, num_writer %d\n",
+ trans->transid, atomic_read(&trans->use_count),
+ atomic_read(&trans->num_writers));
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&fs_info->trans_lock);
return 0;
}
I found there was a orphan transaction after the freeze operation was done.
It is because the transaction may not be committed when the transaction handle
end even though it is the last handle of the current transaction. This design
avoid committing the transaction frequently, but also introduce the above
problem.
So I add btrfs_attach_transaction() which can catch the current transaction
and commit it. If there is no transaction, it will return ENOENT, and do not
anything.
This function also can be used to instead of btrfs_join_transaction_freeze()
because it don't increase the writer counter and don't start a new transaction,
so it also can fix the deadlock between sync and freeze.
Besides that, it is used to instead of btrfs_join_transaction() in
transaction_kthread(), because if there is no transaction, the transaction
kthread needn't anything.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
This patch add a type field into the transaction handle structure,
in this way, we needn't implement various end-transaction functions
and can make the code more simple and readable.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
I screwed this up, there is a race between checking if there is a running
transaction and actually starting a transaction in sync where we could race
with a freezer and get ourselves into trouble. To fix this we need to make
a new join type to only do the try lock on the freeze stuff. If it fails
we'll return EPERM and just return from sync. This fixes a hang Liu Bo
reported when running xfstest 68 in a loop. Thanks,
Reported-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
So we have lots of places where we try to preallocate chunks in order to
make sure we have enough space as we make our allocations. This has
historically meant that we're constantly tweaking when we should allocate a
new chunk, and historically we have gotten this horribly wrong so we way
over allocate either metadata or data. To try and keep this from happening
we are going to make it so that the block group item insertion is done out
of band at the end of a transaction. This will allow us to create chunks
even if we are trying to make an allocation for the extent tree. With this
patch my enospc tests run faster (didn't expect this) and more efficiently
use the disk space (this is what I wanted). Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
When we delete a inode, we will remove all the delayed items including delayed
inode update, and then truncate all the relative metadata. If there is lots of
metadata, we will end the current transaction, and start a new transaction to
truncate the left metadata. In this way, we will leave a inode item that its
link counter is > 0, and also may leave some directory index items in fs/file tree
after the current transaction ends. In other words, the metadata in this fs/file tree
is inconsistent. If we create a snapshot for this tree now, we will find a inode with
corrupted metadata in the new snapshot, and we won't continue to drop the left metadata,
because its link counter is not 0.
We fix this problem by updating the inode item before the current transaction ends.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
This is based on Josef's "Btrfs: turbo charge fsync".
The current btrfs checks if an inode is in log by comparing
root's last_log_commit to inode's last_sub_trans[2].
But the problem is that this root->last_log_commit is shared among
inodes.
Say we have N inodes to be logged, after the first inode,
root's last_log_commit is updated and the N-1 remained files will
be skipped.
This fixes the bug by keeping a local copy of root's last_log_commit
inside each inode and this local copy will be maintained itself.
[1]: we regard each log transaction as a subset of btrfs's transaction,
i.e. sub_trans
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
There is weird logic I had to put in place to make sure that when we were
adding csums that we'd used the delalloc block rsv instead of the global
block rsv. Part of this meant that we had to free up our transaction
reservation before we ran the delayed refs since csum deletion happens
during the delayed ref work. The problem with this is that when we release
a reservation we will add it to the global reserve if it is not full in
order to keep us going along longer before we have to force a transaction
commit. By releasing our reservation before we run delayed refs we don't
get the opportunity to drain down the global reserve for the work we did, so
we won't refill it as often. This isn't a problem per-se, it just results
in us possibly committing transactions more and more often, and in rare
cases could cause those WARN_ON()'s to pop in use_block_rsv because we ran
out of space in our block rsv.
This also helps us by holding onto space while the delayed refs run so we
don't end up with as many people trying to do things at the same time, which
again will help us not force commits or hit the use_block_rsv warnings.
Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
When creating a subvolume or snapshot, it is necessary
to initialize the qgroup account with a copy of some
other (tracking) qgroup. This patch adds parameters
to the ioctls to pass the information from which qgroup
to inherit.
Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
Like block reserves, reserve a small piece of space on each
transaction start and for delalloc. These are the hooks that
can actually return EDQUOT to the user.
The amount of space reserved is tracked in the transaction
handle.
Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
This patch only add a consistancy check to validate that the
same root is passed to start_transaction and end_transaction.
Subvolume quota depends on this.
Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
Originally this was going to be used as a way to give hints to the allocator,
but frankly we can get much better hints elsewhere and it's not even used at all
for anything usefull. In addition to be completely useless, when we initialize
an inode we try and find a freeish block group to set as the inodes block group,
and with a completely full 40gb fs this takes _forever_, so I imagine with say
1tb fs this is just unbearable. So just axe the thing altoghether, we don't
need it and it saves us 8 bytes in the inode and saves us 500 microseconds per
inode lookup in my testcase. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
We use trans_mutex for lots of things, here's a basic list
1) To serialize trans_handles joining the currently running transaction
2) To make sure that no new trans handles are started while we are committing
3) To protect the dead_roots list and the transaction lists
Really the serializing trans_handles joining is not too hard, and can really get
bogged down in acquiring a reference to the transaction. So replace the
trans_mutex with a trans_lock spinlock and use it to do the following
1) Protect fs_info->running_transaction. All trans handles have to do is check
this, and then take a reference of the transaction and keep on going.
2) Protect the fs_info->trans_list. This doesn't get used too much, basically
it just holds the current transactions, which will usually just be the currently
committing transaction and the currently running transaction at most.
3) Protect the dead roots list. This is only ever processed by splicing the
list so this is relatively simple.
4) Protect the fs_info->reloc_ctl stuff. This is very lightweight and was using
the trans_mutex before, so this is a pretty straightforward change.
5) Protect fs_info->no_trans_join. Because we don't hold the trans_lock over
the entirety of the commit we need to have a way to block new people from
creating a new transaction while we're doing our work. So we set no_trans_join
and in join_transaction we test to see if that is set, and if it is we do a
wait_on_commit.
6) Make the transaction use count atomic so we don't need to take locks to
modify it when we're dropping references.
7) Add a commit_lock to the transaction to make sure multiple people trying to
commit the same transaction don't race and commit at the same time.
8) Make open_ioctl_trans an atomic so we don't have to take any locks for ioctl
trans.
I have tested this with xfstests, but obviously it is a pretty hairy change so
lots of testing is greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
We currently track trans handles in current->journal_info, but we don't actually
use it. This patch fixes it. This will cover the case where we have multiple
people starting transactions down the call chain. This keeps us from having to
allocate a new handle and all of that, we just increase the use count of the
current handle, save the old block_rsv, and return. I tested this with xfstests
and it worked out fine. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
I keep forgetting that btrfs_join_transaction() just ignores the num_items
argument, which leads me to sending pointless patches and looking stupid :). So
just kill the num_items argument from btrfs_join_transaction and
btrfs_start_ioctl_transaction, since neither of them use it. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
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>
I've been working on making our O_DIRECT latency not suck and I noticed we were
taking the trans_mutex in btrfs_end_transaction. So to do this we convert
num_writers and use_count to atomic_t's and just decrement them in
btrfs_end_transaction. Instead of deleting the transaction from the trans list
in put_transaction we do that in btrfs_commit_transaction() since that's the
only time it actually needs to be removed from the list. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Usage:
Set BTRFS_SUBVOL_RDONLY of btrfs_ioctl_vol_arg_v2->flags, and call
ioctl(BTRFS_I0CTL_SNAP_CREATE_V2).
Implementation:
- Set readonly bit of btrfs_root_item->flags.
- Add readonly checks in btrfs_permission (inode_permission),
btrfs_setattr, btrfs_set/remove_xattr and some ioctls.
Changelog for v3:
- Eliminate btrfs_root->readonly, but check btrfs_root->root_item.flags.
- Rename BTRFS_ROOT_SNAP_RDONLY to BTRFS_ROOT_SUBVOL_RDONLY.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
START_SYNC will start a sync/commit, but not wait for it to
complete. Any modification started after the ioctl returns is
guaranteed not to be included in the commit. If a non-NULL
pointer is passed, the transaction id will be returned to
userspace.
WAIT_SYNC will wait for any in-progress commit to complete. If a
transaction id is specified, the ioctl will block and then
return (success) when the specified transaction has committed.
If it has already committed when we call the ioctl, it returns
immediately. If the specified transaction doesn't exist, it
returns EINVAL.
If no transaction id is specified, WAIT_SYNC will wait for the
currently committing transaction to finish it's commit to disk.
If there is no currently committing transaction, it returns
success.
These ioctls are useful for applications which want to impose an
ordering on when fs modifications reach disk, but do not want to
wait for the full (slow) commit process to do so.
Picky callers can take the transid returned by START_SYNC and
feed it to WAIT_SYNC, and be certain to wait only as long as
necessary for the transaction _they_ started to reach disk.
Sloppy callers can START_SYNC and WAIT_SYNC without a transid,
and provided they didn't wait too long between the calls, they
will get the same result. However, if a second commit starts
before they call WAIT_SYNC, they may end up waiting longer for
it to commit as well. Even so, a START_SYNC+WAIT_SYNC still
guarantees that any operation completed before the START_SYNC
reaches disk.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Add support for an async transaction commit that is ordered such that any
subsequent operations will join the following transaction, but does not
wait until the current commit is fully on disk. This avoids much of the
latency associated with the btrfs_commit_transaction for callers concerned
with serialization and not safety.
The wait_for_unblock flag controls whether we wait for the 'middle' portion
of commit_transaction to complete, which is necessary if the caller expects
some of the modifications contained in the commit to be available (this is
the case for subvol/snapshot creation).
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
In order to save free space cache, we need an inode to hold the data, and we
need a special item to point at the right inode for the right block group. So
first, create a special item that will point to the right inode, and the number
of extent entries we will have and the number of bitmaps we will have. We
truncate and pre-allocate space everytime to make sure it's uptodate.
This feature will be turned on as soon as you mount with -o space_cache, however
it is safe to boot into old kernels, they will just generate the cache the old
fashion way. When you boot back into a newer kernel we will notice that we
modified and not the cache and automatically discard the cache.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Reserve metadata space for extent tree, checksum tree and root tree
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Besides simplify the code, this change makes sure all metadata
reservation for normal metadata operations are released after
committing transaction.
Changes since V1:
Add code that check if unlink and rmdir will free space.
Add ENOSPC handling for clone ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Introducing metadata reseravtion contexts has two major advantages.
First, it makes metadata reseravtion more traceable. Second, it can
reclaim freed space and re-add them to the itself after transaction
committed.
Besides add btrfs_block_rsv structure and related helper functions,
This patch contains following changes:
Move code that decides if freed tree block should be pinned into
btrfs_free_tree_block().
Make space accounting more accurate, mainly for handling read only
block groups.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
We allow two log transactions at a time, but use same flag
to mark dirty tree-log btree blocks. So we may flush dirty
blocks belonging to newer log transaction when committing a
log transaction. This patch fixes the issue by using two
flags to mark dirty tree-log btree blocks.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Syncing the tree log is a 3 phase operation.
1) write and wait for all the tree log blocks for a given root.
2) write and wait for all the tree log blocks for the
tree of tree log roots.
3) write and wait for the super blocks (barriers here)
This isn't as efficient as it could be because there is
no requirement to wait for the blocks from step one to hit the disk
before we start writing the blocks from step two. This commit
changes the sequence so that we don't start waiting until
all the tree blocks from both steps one and two have been sent
to disk.
We do this by breaking up btrfs_write_wait_marked_extents into
two functions, which is trivial because it was already broken
up into two parts.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
rpm has a habit of running fdatasync when the file hasn't
changed. We already detect if a file hasn't been changed
in the current transaction but it might have been sent to
the tree-log in this transaction and not changed since
the last call to fsync.
In this case, we want to avoid a tree log sync, which includes
a number of synchronous writes and barriers. This commit
extends the existing tracking of the last transaction to change
a file to also track the last sub-transaction.
The end result is that rpm -ivh and -Uvh are roughly twice as fast,
and on par with ext3.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The semaphore used by the async caching threads can prevent a
transaction commit, which can make the FS appear to stall. This
releases the semaphore more often when a transaction commit is
in progress.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This commit introduces a new kind of back reference for btrfs metadata.
Once a filesystem has been mounted with this commit, IT WILL NO LONGER
BE MOUNTABLE BY OLDER KERNELS.
When a tree block in subvolume tree is cow'd, the reference counts of all
extents it points to are increased by one. At transaction commit time,
the old root of the subvolume is recorded in a "dead root" data structure,
and the btree it points to is later walked, dropping reference counts
and freeing any blocks where the reference count goes to 0.
The increments done during cow and decrements done after commit cancel out,
and the walk is a very expensive way to go about freeing the blocks that
are no longer referenced by the new btree root. This commit reduces the
transaction overhead by avoiding the need for dead root records.
When a non-shared tree block is cow'd, we free the old block at once, and the
new block inherits old block's references. When a tree block with reference
count > 1 is cow'd, we increase the reference counts of all extents
the new block points to by one, and decrease the old block's reference count by
one.
This dead tree avoidance code removes the need to modify the reference
counts of lower level extents when a non-shared tree block is cow'd.
But we still need to update back ref for all pointers in the block.
This is because the location of the block is recorded in the back ref
item.
We can solve this by introducing a new type of back ref. The new
back ref provides information about pointer's key, level and in which
tree the pointer lives. This information allow us to find the pointer
by searching the tree. The shortcoming of the new back ref is that it
only works for pointers in tree blocks referenced by their owner trees.
This is mostly a problem for snapshots, where resolving one of these
fuzzy back references would be O(number_of_snapshots) and quite slow.
The solution used here is to use the fuzzy back references in the common
case where a given tree block is only referenced by one root,
and use the full back references when multiple roots have a reference
on a given block.
This commit adds per subvolume red-black tree to keep trace of cached
inodes. The red-black tree helps the balancing code to find cached
inodes whose inode numbers within a given range.
This commit improves the balancing code by introducing several data
structures to keep the state of balancing. The most important one
is the back ref cache. It caches how the upper level tree blocks are
referenced. This greatly reduce the overhead of checking back ref.
The improved balancing code scales significantly better with a large
number of snapshots.
This is a very large commit and was written in a number of
pieces. But, they depend heavily on the disk format change and were
squashed together to make sure git bisect didn't end up in a
bad state wrt space balancing or the format change.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To avoid deadlocks and reduce latencies during some critical operations, some
transaction writers are allowed to jump into the running transaction and make
it run a little longer, while others sit around and wait for the commit to
finish.
This is a bit unfair, especially when the callers that jump in do a bunch
of IO that makes all the others procs on the box wait. This commit
reduces the stalls this produces by pre-reading file extent pointers
during btrfs_finish_ordered_io before the transaction is joined.
It also tunes the drop_snapshot code to politely wait for transactions
that have started writing out their delayed refs to finish. This avoids
new delayed refs being flooded into the queue while we're trying to
close off the transaction.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The extent allocation tree maintains a reference count and full
back reference information for every extent allocated in the
filesystem. For subvolume and snapshot trees, every time
a block goes through COW, the new copy of the block adds a reference
on every block it points to.
If a btree node points to 150 leaves, then the COW code needs to go
and add backrefs on 150 different extents, which might be spread all
over the extent allocation tree.
These updates currently happen during btrfs_cow_block, and most COWs
happen during btrfs_search_slot. btrfs_search_slot has locks held
on both the parent and the node we are COWing, and so we really want
to avoid IO during the COW if we can.
This commit adds an rbtree of pending reference count updates and extent
allocations. The tree is ordered by byte number of the extent and byte number
of the parent for the back reference. The tree allows us to:
1) Modify back references in something close to disk order, reducing seeks
2) Significantly reduce the number of modifications made as block pointers
are balanced around
3) Do all of the extent insertion and back reference modifications outside
of the performance critical btrfs_search_slot code.
#3 has the added benefit of greatly reducing the btrfs stack footprint.
The extent allocation tree modifications are done without the deep
(and somewhat recursive) call chains used in the past.
These delayed back reference updates must be done before the transaction
commits, and so the rbtree is tied to the transaction. Throttling is
implemented to help keep the queue of backrefs at a reasonable size.
Since there was a similar mechanism in place for the extent tree
extents, that is removed and replaced by the delayed reference tree.
Yan Zheng <yan.zheng@oracle.com> helped review and fixup this code.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The block group structs are referenced in many different
places, and it's not safe to free while balancing. So, those block
group structs were simply leaked instead.
This patch replaces the block group pointer in the inode with the starting byte
offset of the block group and adds reference counting to the block group
struct.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Before, all snapshots and subvolumes lived in a single flat directory. This
was awkward and confusing because the single flat directory was only writable
with the ioctls.
This commit changes the ioctls to create subvols and snapshots at any
point in the directory tree. This requires making separate ioctls for
snapshot and subvol creation instead of a combining them into one.
The subvol ioctl does:
btrfsctl -S subvol_name parent_dir
After the ioctl is done subvol_name lives inside parent_dir.
The snapshot ioctl does:
btrfsctl -s path_for_snapshot root_to_snapshot
path_for_snapshot can be an absolute or relative path. btrfsctl breaks it up
into directory and basename components.
root_to_snapshot can be any file or directory in the FS. The snapshot
is taken of the entire root where that file lives.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This is the same way the transaction code makes sure that all the
other tree blocks are safely on disk. There's an extent_io tree
for each root, and any blocks allocated to the tree logs are
recorded in that tree.
At tree-log sync, the extent_io tree is walked to flush down the
dirty pages and wait for them.
The main benefit is less time spent walking the tree log and skipping
clean pages, and getting sequential IO down to the drive.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
File syncs and directory syncs are optimized by copying their
items into a special (copy-on-write) log tree. There is one log tree per
subvolume and the btrfs super block points to a tree of log tree roots.
After a crash, items are copied out of the log tree and back into the
subvolume. See tree-log.c for all the details.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Commit 597:466b27332893 (btrfs_start_transaction: wait for commits in
progress) breaks the transaction start/stop ioctls by making
btrfs_start_transaction conditionally wait for the next transaction to
start. If an application artificially is holding a transaction open,
things deadlock.
This workaround maintains a count of open ioctl-initiated transactions in
fs_info, and avoids wait_current_trans() if any are currently open (in
start_transaction() and btrfs_throttle()). The start transaction ioctl
uses a new btrfs_start_ioctl_transaction() that _does_ call
wait_current_trans(), effectively pushing the join/wait decision to the
outer ioctl-initiated transaction.
This more or less neuters btrfs_throttle() when ioctl-initiated
transactions are in use, but that seems like a pretty fundamental
consequence of wrapping lots of write()'s in a transaction. Btrfs has no
way to tell if the application considers a given operation as part of it's
transaction.
Obviously, if the transaction start/stop ioctls aren't being used, there
is no effect on current behavior.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
---
ctree.h | 1 +
ioctl.c | 12 +++++++++++-
transaction.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
transaction.h | 2 ++
4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To check whether a given file extent is referenced by multiple snapshots, the
checker walks down the fs tree through dead root and checks all tree blocks in
the path.
We can easily detect whether a given tree block is directly referenced by other
snapshot. We can also detect any indirect reference from other snapshot by
checking reference's generation. The checker can always detect multiple
references, but can't reliably detect cases of single reference. So btrfs may
do file data cow even there is only one reference.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
A large reference cache is directly related to a lot of work pending
for the cleaner thread. This throttles back new operations based on
the size of the reference cache so the cleaner thread will be able to keep
up.
Overall, this actually makes the FS faster because the cleaner thread will
be more likely to find things in cache.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
