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2009-01-07Btrfs: kmap_atomic(KM_USER0) is safe for btrfs_readpage_end_io_hookChris Mason
None of the checksum verification code schedules, so we can use the faster kmap_atomic Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-06Btrfs: Don't use kmap_atomic(..., KM_IRQ0) during checksum verifiesChris Mason
Checksum verification happens in a helper thread, and there is no need to mess with interrupts. This switches to kmap() instead. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-06Btrfs: tree logging checksum fixesYan Zheng
This patch contains following things. 1) Limit the max size of btrfs_ordered_sum structure to PAGE_SIZE. This struct is kmalloced so we want to keep it reasonable. 2) Replace copy_extent_csums by btrfs_lookup_csums_range. This was duplicated code in tree-log.c 3) Remove replay_one_csum. csum items are replayed at the same time as replaying file extents. This guarantees we only replay useful csums. 4) nbytes accounting fix. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2009-01-06Btrfs: Use btrfs_join_transaction to avoid deadlocks during snapshot creationYan Zheng
Snapshot creation happens at a specific time during transaction commit. We need to make sure the code called by snapshot creation doesn't wait for the running transaction to commit. This changes btrfs_delete_inode and finish_pending_snaps to use btrfs_join_transaction instead of btrfs_start_transaction to avoid deadlocks. It would be better if btrfs_delete_inode didn't use the join, but the call path that triggers it is: btrfs_commit_transaction->create_pending_snapshots-> create_pending_snapshot->btrfs_lookup_dentry-> fixup_tree_root_location->btrfs_read_fs_root-> btrfs_read_fs_root_no_name->btrfs_orphan_cleanup->iput This will be fixed in a later patch by moving the orphan cleanup to the cleaner thread. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-05Btrfs: Fix checkpatch.pl warningsChris Mason
There were many, most are fixed now. struct-funcs.c generates some warnings but these are bogus. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-17Btrfs: shift all end_io work to thread poolsChris Mason
bio_end_io for reads without checksumming on and btree writes were happening without using async thread pools. This means the extent_io.c code had to use spin_lock_irq and friends on the rb tree locks for extent state. There were some irq safe vs unsafe lock inversions between the delallock lock and the extent state locks. This patch gets rid of them by moving all end_io code into the thread pools. To avoid contention and deadlocks between the data end_io processing and the metadata end_io processing yet another thread pool is added to finish off metadata writes. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-15Btrfs: Don't use spin*lock_irq for the delalloc lockChris Mason
The delalloc lock doesn't need to have irqs disabled, nobody that changes the number of delalloc bytes in the FS is running with irqs off. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-15Btrfs: Fix compressed writes on truncated pagesChris Mason
The compression code was using isize to limit the amount of data it sent through zlib. But, it wasn't properly limiting the looping to just the pages inside i_size. The end result was trying to compress too many pages, including those that had not been setup and properly locked down. This made the compression code oops while trying find_get_page on a page that didn't exist. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-12Btrfs: fix nodatasum handling in balancing codeYan Zheng
Checksums on data can be disabled by mount option, so it's possible some data extents don't have checksums or have invalid checksums. This causes trouble for data relocation. This patch contains following things to make data relocation work. 1) make nodatasum/nodatacow mount option only affects new files. Checksums and COW on data are only controlled by the inode flags. 2) check the existence of checksum in the nodatacow checker. If checksums exist, force COW the data extent. This ensure that checksum for a given block is either valid or does not exist. 3) update data relocation code to properly handle the case of checksum missing. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-12-11Btrfs: fix leaking block group on balanceYan Zheng
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>
2008-12-08Btrfs: Add inode sequence number for NFS and reserved space in a few structsChris Mason
This adds a sequence number to the btrfs inode that is increased on every update. NFS will be able to use that to detect when an inode has changed, without relying on inaccurate time fields. While we're here, this also: Puts reserved space into the super block and inode Adds a log root transid to the super so we can pick the newest super based on the fsync log as well as the main transaction ID. For now the log root transid is always zero, but that'll get fixed. Adds a starting offset to the dev_item. This will let us do better alignment calculations if we know the start of a partition on the disk. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-08Btrfs: move data checksumming into a dedicated treeChris Mason
Btrfs stores checksums for each data block. Until now, they have been stored in the subvolume trees, indexed by the inode that is referencing the data block. This means that when we read the inode, we've probably read in at least some checksums as well. But, this has a few problems: * The checksums are indexed by logical offset in the file. When compression is on, this means we have to do the expensive checksumming on the uncompressed data. It would be faster if we could checksum the compressed data instead. * If we implement encryption, we'll be checksumming the plain text and storing that on disk. This is significantly less secure. * For either compression or encryption, we have to get the plain text back before we can verify the checksum as correct. This makes the raid layer balancing and extent moving much more expensive. * It makes the front end caching code more complex, as we have touch the subvolume and inodes as we cache extents. * There is potentitally one copy of the checksum in each subvolume referencing an extent. The solution used here is to store the extent checksums in a dedicated tree. This allows us to index the checksums by phyiscal extent start and length. It means: * The checksum is against the data stored on disk, after any compression or encryption is done. * The checksum is stored in a central location, and can be verified without following back references, or reading inodes. This makes compression significantly faster by reducing the amount of data that needs to be checksummed. It will also allow much faster raid management code in general. The checksums are indexed by a key with a fixed objectid (a magic value in ctree.h) and offset set to the starting byte of the extent. This allows us to copy the checksum items into the fsync log tree directly (or any other tree), without having to invent a second format for them. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-02Btrfs: delete unused function: btrfs_invalidate_dcache_rootChris Mason
Snapshot and subvolume creation no longer need this helper. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-02Btrfs: make things static and include the right headersChristoph Hellwig
Shut up various sparse warnings about symbols that should be either static or have their declarations in scope. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2008-12-01Btrfs: Fix cow semantic in run_delalloc_nocow()Liu Hui
The file preallocation code reversed the logic to force nodatacow. This fixes it.
2008-11-20Btrfs: compat code fixesChris Mason
The btrfs git kernel trees is used to build a standalone tree for compiling against older kernels. This commit makes the standalone tree work with 2.6.27 Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-19Btrfs: Use current_fsuid/gidChris Mason
This fixes compile problems with linux-next Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-19Btrfs: Avoid writeback stallsChris Mason
While building large bios in writepages, btrfs may end up waiting for other page writeback to finish if WB_SYNC_ALL is used. While it is waiting, the bio it is building has a number of pages with the writeback bit set and they aren't getting to the disk any time soon. This lowers the latencies of writeback in general by sending down the bio being built before waiting for other pages. The bio submission code tries to limit the total number of async bios in flight by waiting when we're over a certain number of async bios. But, the waits are happening while writepages is building bios, and this can easily lead to stalls and other problems for people calling wait_on_page_writeback. The current fix is to let the congestion tests take care of waiting. sync() and others make sure to drain the current async requests to make sure that everything that was pending when the sync was started really get to disk. The code would drain pending requests both before and after submitting a new request. But, if one of the requests is waiting for page writeback to finish, the draining waits might block that page writeback. This changes the draining code to only wait after submitting the bio being processed. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-17Btrfs: Add backrefs and forward refs for subvols and snapshotsChris Mason
Subvols and snapshots can now be referenced from any point in the directory tree. We need to maintain back refs for them so we can find lost subvols. Forward refs are added so that we know all of the subvols and snapshots referenced anywhere in the directory tree of a single subvol. This can be used to do recursive snapshotting (but they aren't yet) and it is also used to detect and prevent directory loops when creating new snapshots. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-17Btrfs: Give each subvol and snapshot their own anonymous devidChris Mason
Each subvolume has its own private inode number space, and so we need to fill in different device numbers for each subvolume to avoid confusing applications. This commit puts a struct super_block into struct btrfs_root so it can call set_anon_super() and get a different device number generated for each root. btrfs_rename is changed to prevent renames across subvols. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-17Btrfs: Allow subvolumes and snapshots anywhere in the directory treeChris Mason
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>
2008-11-12Btrfs: mount ro and remount supportYan Zheng
This patch adds mount ro and remount support. The main changes in patch are: adding btrfs_remount and related helper function; splitting the transaction related code out of close_ctree into btrfs_commit_super; updating allocator to properly handle read only block group. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-11-11Btrfs: Fix compile warnings on 32 bit machinesChris Mason
Simple casting here and there to fix things up. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-10Btrfs: Fix usage of struct extent_map->orig_startChris Mason
This makes sure the orig_start field in struct extent_map gets set everywhere the extent_map structs are created or modified. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-10Btrfs: Fix csum error for compressed dataYan Zheng
The decompress code doesn't take the logical offset in extent pointer into account. If the logical offset isn't zero, data will be decompressed into wrong pages. The solution used here is to record the starting offset of the extent in the file separately from the logical start of the extent_map struct. This allows us to avoid problems inserting overlapping extents. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-11-06Btrfs: Optimize compressed writeback and readsChris Mason
When reading compressed extents, try to put pages into the page cache for any pages covered by the compressed extent that readpages didn't already preload. Add an async work queue to handle transformations at delayed allocation processing time. Right now this is just compression. The workflow is: 1) Find offsets in the file marked for delayed allocation 2) Lock the pages 3) Lock the state bits 4) Call the async delalloc code The async delalloc code clears the state lock bits and delalloc bits. It is important this happens before the range goes into the work queue because otherwise it might deadlock with other work queue items that try to lock those extent bits. The file pages are compressed, and if the compression doesn't work the pages are written back directly. An ordered work queue is used to make sure the inodes are written in the same order that pdflush or writepages sent them down. This changes extent_write_cache_pages to let the writepage function update the wbc nr_written count. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-06Btrfs: Add ordered async work queuesChris Mason
Btrfs uses kernel threads to create async work queues for cpu intensive operations such as checksumming and decompression. These work well, but they make it difficult to keep IO order intact. A single writepages call from pdflush or fsync will turn into a number of bios, and each bio is checksummed in parallel. Once the checksum is computed, the bio is sent down to the disk, and since we don't control the order in which the parallel operations happen, they might go down to the disk in almost any order. The code deals with this somewhat by having deep work queues for a single kernel thread, making it very likely that a single thread will process all the bios for a single inode. This patch introduces an explicitly ordered work queue. As work structs are placed into the queue they are put onto the tail of a list. They have three callbacks: ->func (cpu intensive processing here) ->ordered_func (order sensitive processing here) ->ordered_free (free the work struct, all processing is done) The work struct has three callbacks. The func callback does the cpu intensive work, and when it completes the work struct is marked as done. Every time a work struct completes, the list is checked to see if the head is marked as done. If so the ordered_func callback is used to do the order sensitive processing and the ordered_free callback is used to do any cleanup. Then we loop back and check the head of the list again. This patch also changes the checksumming code to use the ordered workqueues. One a 4 drive array, it increases streaming writes from 280MB/s to 350MB/s. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-10-31Btrfs: Compression corner fixesChris Mason
Make sure we keep page->mapping NULL on the pages we're getting via alloc_page. It gets set so a few of the callbacks can do the right thing, but in general these pages don't have a mapping. Don't try to truncate compressed inline items in btrfs_drop_extents. The whole compressed item must be preserved. Don't try to create multipage inline compressed items. When we try to overwrite just the first page of the file, we would have to read in and recow all the pages after it in the same compressed inline items. For now, only create single page inline items. Make sure we lock pages in the correct order during delalloc. The search into the state tree for delalloc bytes can return bytes before the page we already have locked. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-10-30Btrfs: Add fallocate support v2Yan Zheng
This patch updates btrfs-progs for fallocate support. fallocate is a little different in Btrfs because we need to tell the COW system that a given preallocated extent doesn't need to be cow'd as long as there are no snapshots of it. This leverages the -o nodatacow checks. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-10-30Btrfs: update nodatacow code v2Yan Zheng
This patch simplifies the nodatacow checker. If all references were created after the latest snapshot, then we can avoid COW safely. This patch also updates run_delalloc_nocow to do more fine-grained checking. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-10-30Btrfs: Fix bookend extent race v2Yan Zheng
When dropping middle part of an extent, btrfs_drop_extents truncates the extent at first, then inserts a bookend extent. Since truncation and insertion can't be done atomically, there is a small period that the bookend extent isn't in the tree. This causes problem for functions that search the tree for file extent item. The way to fix this is lock the range of the bookend extent before truncation. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-10-30Btrfs: update hole handling v2Yan Zheng
This patch splits the hole insertion code out of btrfs_setattr into btrfs_cont_expand and updates btrfs_get_extent to properly handle the case that file extent items are not continuous. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-10-30Btrfs: Fix logic to avoid reading checksums for -o nodatasum,compressChris Mason
When compression was on, we were improperly ignoring -o nodatasum. This reworks the logic a bit to properly honor all the flags. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-10-30Btrfs: walk compressed pages based on the nr_pages count instead of bytesChris Mason
The byte walk counting was awkward and error prone. This uses the number of pages sent the higher layer to build bios. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-10-29Btrfs: Add zlib compression supportChris Mason
This is a large change for adding compression on reading and writing, both for inline and regular extents. It does some fairly large surgery to the writeback paths. Compression is off by default and enabled by mount -o compress. Even when the -o compress mount option is not used, it is possible to read compressed extents off the disk. If compression for a given set of pages fails to make them smaller, the file is flagged to avoid future compression attempts later. * While finding delalloc extents, the pages are locked before being sent down to the delalloc handler. This allows the delalloc handler to do complex things such as cleaning the pages, marking them writeback and starting IO on their behalf. * Inline extents are inserted at delalloc time now. This allows us to compress the data before inserting the inline extent, and it allows us to insert an inline extent that spans multiple pages. * All of the in-memory extent representations (extent_map.c, ordered-data.c etc) are changed to record both an in-memory size and an on disk size, as well as a flag for compression. From a disk format point of view, the extent pointers in the file are changed to record the on disk size of a given extent and some encoding flags. Space in the disk format is allocated for compression encoding, as well as encryption and a generic 'other' field. Neither the encryption or the 'other' field are currently used. In order to limit the amount of data read for a single random read in the file, the size of a compressed extent is limited to 128k. This is a software only limit, the disk format supports u64 sized compressed extents. In order to limit the ram consumed while processing extents, the uncompressed size of a compressed extent is limited to 256k. This is a software only limit and will be subject to tuning later. Checksumming is still done on compressed extents, and it is done on the uncompressed version of the data. This way additional encodings can be layered on without having to figure out which encoding to checksum. Compression happens at delalloc time, which is basically singled threaded because it is usually done by a single pdflush thread. This makes it tricky to spread the compression load across all the cpus on the box. We'll have to look at parallel pdflush walks of dirty inodes at a later time. Decompression is hooked into readpages and it does spread across CPUs nicely. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Btrfs: Fix subvolume creation locking rulesChristoph Hellwig
Creating a subvolume is in many ways like a normal VFS ->mkdir, and we really need to play with the VFS topology locking rules. So instead of just creating the snapshot on disk and then later getting rid of confliting aliases do it correctly from the start. This will become especially important once we allow for subvolumes anywhere in the tree, and not just below a hidden root. Note that snapshots will need the same treatment, but do to the delay in creating them we can't do it currently. Chris promised to fix that issue, so I'll wait on that. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2008-10-09Btrfs: Fix leaf reference cache missYan Zheng
Due to the optimization for truncate, tree leaves only containing checksum items can be deleted without being COW'ed first. This causes reference cache misses. The way to fix the miss is create cache entries for tree leaves only contain checksum. This patch also fixes a -EEXIST issue in shared reference cache. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Btrfs: Remove offset field from struct btrfs_extent_refYan Zheng
The offset field in struct btrfs_extent_ref records the position inside file that file extent is referenced by. In the new back reference system, tree leaves holding references to file extent are recorded explicitly. We can scan these tree leaves very quickly, so the offset field is not required. This patch also makes the back reference system check the objectid when extents are in deleting. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Btrfs: Count space allocated to file in bytesYan Zheng
This patch makes btrfs count space allocated to file in bytes instead of 512 byte sectors. Everything else in btrfs uses a byte count instead of sector sizes or blocks sizes, so this fits better. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-10-03Btrfs: cast bio->bi_sector to a u64 before shiftingChris Mason
On 32 bit machines without CONFIG_LBD, the bi_sector field is only 32 bits. Btrfs needs to cast it before shifting up, or we end up doing IO into the wrong place. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-10-01Btrfs: don't read leaf blocks containing only checksums during truncateChris Mason
Checksum items take up a significant portion of the metadata for large files. It is possible to avoid reading them during truncates by checking the keys in the higher level nodes. If a given leaf is followed by another leaf where the lowest key is a checksum item from the same file, we know we can safely delete the leaf without reading it. For a 32GB file on a 6 drive raid0 array, Btrfs needs 8s to delete the file with a cold cache. It is read bound during the run. With this change, Btrfs is able to delete the file in 0.5s Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-29Btrfs: add and improve commentsChris Mason
This improves the comments at the top of many functions. It didn't dive into the guts of functions because I was trying to avoid merging problems with the new allocator and back reference work. extent-tree.c and volumes.c were both skipped, and there is definitely more work todo in cleaning and commenting the code. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-29Btrfs: Wait for IO on the block device inodes of newly added devicesChris Mason
btrfs-vol -a /dev/xxx will zero the first and last two MB of the device. The kernel code needs to wait for this IO to finish before it adds the device. btrfs metadata IO does not happen through the block device inode. A separate address space is used, allowing the zero filled buffer heads in the block device inode to be written to disk after FS metadata starts going down to the disk via the btrfs metadata inode. The end result is zero filled metadata blocks after adding new devices into the filesystem. The fix is a simple filemap_write_and_wait on the block device inode before actually inserting it into the pool of available devices. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-26Btrfs: extent_map and data=ordered fixes for space balancingZheng Yan
* Add an EXTENT_BOUNDARY state bit to keep the writepage code from merging data extents that are in the process of being relocated. This allows us to do accounting for them properly. * The balancing code relocates data extents indepdent of the underlying inode. The extent_map code was modified to properly account for things moving around (invalidating extent_map caches in the inode). * Don't take the drop_mutex in the create_subvol ioctl. It isn't required. * Fix walking of the ordered extent list to avoid races with sys_unlink * Change the lock ordering rules. Transaction start goes outside the drop_mutex. This allows btrfs_commit_transaction to directly drop the relocation trees. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Remove Btrfs compat code for older kernelsChris Mason
Btrfs had compatibility code for kernels back to 2.6.18. These have been removed, and will be maintained in a separate backport git tree from now on. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: Fix race against disk_i_size updatesChris Mason
The code to update the on disk i_size happens before the ordered_extent record is removed. So, it is possible for multiple ordered_extent completion routines to run at the same time, and to find each other in the ordered tree. The end result is they both decide not to update disk_i_size, leaving it too small. This temporary fix just puts the updates inside the extent_mutex. A real solution would be stronger ordering of disk_i_size updates against removing the ordered extent from the tree. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: Full back reference supportZheng Yan
This patch makes the back reference system to explicit record the location of parent node for all types of extents. The location of parent node is placed into the offset field of backref key. Every time a tree block is balanced, the back references for the affected lower level extents are updated. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: free space accounting redoJosef Bacik
1) replace the per fs_info extent_io_tree that tracked free space with two rb-trees per block group to track free space areas via offset and size. The reason to do this is because most allocations come with a hint byte where to start, so we can usually find a chunk of free space at that hint byte to satisfy the allocation and get good space packing. If we cannot find free space at or after the given offset we fall back on looking for a chunk of the given size as close to that given offset as possible. When we fall back on the size search we also try to find a slot as close to the size we want as possible, to avoid breaking small chunks off of huge areas if possible. 2) remove the extent_io_tree that tracked the block group cache from fs_info and replaced it with an rb-tree thats tracks block group cache via offset. also added a per space_info list that tracks the block group cache for the particular space so we can lookup related block groups easily. 3) cleaned up the allocation code to make it a little easier to read and a little less complicated. Basically there are 3 steps, first look from our provided hint. If we couldn't find from that given hint, start back at our original search start and look for space from there. If that fails try to allocate space if we can and start looking again. If not we're screwed and need to start over again. 4) small fixes. there were some issues in volumes.c where we wouldn't allocate the rest of the disk. fixed cow_file_range to actually pass the alloc_hint, which has helped a good bit in making the fs_mark test I run have semi-normal results as we run out of space. Generally with data allocations we don't track where we last allocated from, so everytime we did a data allocation we'd search through every block group that we have looking for free space. Now searching a block group with no free space isn't terribly time consuming, it was causing a slight degradation as we got more data block groups. The alloc_hint has fixed this slight degredation and made things semi-normal. There is still one nagging problem I'm working on where we will get ENOSPC when there is definitely plenty of space. This only happens with metadata allocations, and only when we are almost full. So you generally hit the 85% mark first, but sometimes you'll hit the BUG before you hit the 85% wall. I'm still tracking it down, but until then this seems to be pretty stable and make a significant performance gain. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: Dir fsync optimizationsChris Mason
Drop i_mutex during the commit Don't bother doing the fsync at all unless the dir is marked as dirtied and needing fsync in this transaction. For directories, this means that someone has unlinked a file from the dir without fsyncing the file. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: Fix releasepage to properly keep dirty and writeback pagesChris Mason
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>