Non-block group destruction discarding currently only had a single list
with no minimum discard length. This can lead to caravaning more
meaningful discards behind a heavily fragmented block group.
This adds support for multiple lists with minimum discard lengths to
prevent the caravan effect. We promote block groups back up when we
exceed the BTRFS_ASYNC_DISCARD_MAX_FILTER size, currently we support
only 2 lists with filters of 1MB and 32KB respectively.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Keep track of this metric so that we can understand how ahead or behind
we are in discarding rate. This uses the same accounting method as
discardable_extents, deltas between previous/current values and
propagating them up.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ update changelog ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The number of discardable extents will serve as the rate limiting metric
for how often we should discard. This keeps track of discardable extents
in the free space caches by maintaining deltas and propagating them to
the global count.
The deltas are calculated from 2 values stored in PREV and CURR entries,
then propagated up to the global discard ctl. The current counter value
becomes the previous counter value after update.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ update changelog ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The prior two patches added discarding via a background workqueue. This
just piggybacked off of the fstrim code to trim the whole block at once.
Well inevitably this is worse performance wise and will aggressively
overtrim. But it was nice to plumb the other infrastructure to keep the
patches easier to review.
This adds the real goal of this series which is discarding slowly (ie. a
slow long running fstrim). The discarding is split into two phases,
extents and then bitmaps. The reason for this is two fold. First, the
bitmap regions overlap the extent regions. Second, discarding the
extents first will let the newly trimmed bitmaps have the highest chance
of coalescing when being readded to the free space cache.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
block_group removal is a little tricky. It can race with the extent
allocator, the cleaner thread, and balancing. The current path is for a
block_group to be added to the unused_bgs list. Then, when the cleaner
thread comes around, it starts a transaction and then proceeds with
removing the block_group. Extents that are pinned are subsequently
removed from the pinned trees and then eventually a discard is issued
for the entire block_group.
Async discard introduces another player into the game, the discard
workqueue. While it has none of the racing issues, the new problem is
ensuring we don't leave free space untrimmed prior to forgetting the
block_group. This is handled by placing fully free block_groups on a
separate discard queue. This is necessary to maintain discarding order
as in the future we will slowly trim even fully free block_groups. The
ordering helps us make progress on the same block_group rather than say
the last fully freed block_group or needing to search through the fully
freed block groups at the beginning of a list and insert after.
The new order of events is a fully freed block group gets placed on the
unused discard queue first. Once it's processed, it will be placed on
the unusued_bgs list and then the original sequence of events will
happen, just without the final whole block_group discard.
The mount flags can change when processing unused_bgs, so when flipping
from DISCARD to DISCARD_ASYNC, the unused_bgs must be punted to the
discard_list to be trimmed. If we flip off DISCARD_ASYNC, we punt
free block groups on the discard_list to the unused_bg queue which will
do the final discard for us.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
When discard is enabled, everytime a pinned extent is released back to
the block_group's free space cache, a discard is issued for the extent.
This is an overeager approach when it comes to discarding and helping
the SSD maintain enough free space to prevent severe garbage collection
situations.
This adds the beginning of async discard. Instead of issuing a discard
prior to returning it to the free space, it is just marked as untrimmed.
The block_group is then added to a LRU which then feeds into a workqueue
to issue discards at a much slower rate. Full discarding of unused block
groups is still done and will be addressed in a future patch of the
series.
For now, we don't persist the discard state of extents and bitmaps.
Therefore, our failure recovery mode will be to consider extents
untrimmed. This lets us handle failure and unmounting as one in the
same.
On a number of Facebook webservers, I collected data every minute
accounting the time we spent in btrfs_finish_extent_commit() (col. 1)
and in btrfs_commit_transaction() (col. 2). btrfs_finish_extent_commit()
is where we discard extents synchronously before returning them to the
free space cache.
discard=sync:
p99 total per minute p99 total per minute
Drive | extent_commit() (ms) | commit_trans() (ms)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Drive A | 434 | 1170
Drive B | 880 | 2330
Drive C | 2943 | 3920
Drive D | 4763 | 5701
discard=async:
p99 total per minute p99 total per minute
Drive | extent_commit() (ms) | commit_trans() (ms)
--------------------------------------------------------------
Drive A | 134 | 956
Drive B | 64 | 1972
Drive C | 59 | 1032
Drive D | 62 | 1200
While it's not great that the stats are cumulative over 1m, all of these
servers are running the same workload and and the delta between the two
are substantial. We are spending significantly less time in
btrfs_finish_extent_commit() which is responsible for discarding.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
There is a cap in btrfs in the amount of free extents that a block group
can have. When it surpasses that threshold, future extents are placed
into bitmaps. Instead of keeping track of if a certain bit is trimmed or
not in a second bitmap, keep track of the relative state of the bitmap.
With async discard, trimming bitmaps becomes a more frequent operation.
As a trade off with simplicity, we keep track of if discarding a bitmap
is in progress. If we fully scan a bitmap and trim as necessary, the
bitmap is marked clean. This has some caveats as the min block size may
skip over regions deemed too small. But this should be a reasonable
trade off rather than keeping a second bitmap and making allocation
paths more complex. The downside is we may overtrim, but ideally the min
block size should prevent us from doing that too often and getting stuck
trimming pathological cases.
BTRFS_TRIM_STATE_TRIMMING is added to indicate a bitmap is in the
process of being trimmed. If additional free space is added to that
bitmap, the bit is cleared. A bitmap will be marked
BTRFS_TRIM_STATE_TRIMMED if the trimming code was able to reach the end
of it and the former is still set.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Async discard will use the free space cache as backing knowledge for
which extents to discard. This patch plumbs knowledge about which
extents need to be discarded into the free space cache from
unpin_extent_range().
An untrimmed extent can merge with everything as this is a new region.
Absorbing trimmed extents is a tradeoff to for greater coalescing which
makes life better for find_free_extent(). Additionally, it seems the
size of a trim isn't as problematic as the trim io itself.
When reading in the free space cache from disk, if sync is set, mark all
extents as trimmed. The current code ensures at transaction commit that
all free space is trimmed when sync is set, so this reflects that.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The type name is misleading, a single entry is named 'cache' while this
normally means a collection of objects. Rename that everywhere. Also the
identifier was quite long, making function prototypes harder to format.
Suggested-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The io_ctl structure is used for free space management, and used only by
the v1 space cache code, but unfortunatlly the full definition is
required by block-group.h so it can't be moved to free-space-cache.c
without additional changes.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
This is prep work for moving block_group_cache around. Having this in
the header file makes the header file include need to be in a certain
order, which is awkward, so just move it into free-space-cache.c and
then we can re-arrange later.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Remove GPL boilerplate text (long, short, one-line) and keep the rest,
ie. personal, company or original source copyright statements. Add the
SPDX header.
Unify the include protection macros to match the file names.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The free space cache APIs accept a root but always use the tree root.
Also, btrfs_truncate_free_space_cache accepts a root AND an inode but
the inode always points to the root anyway, so let's just pass the inode.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
There are loads of functions in btrfs that accept a root parameter
but only use it to obtain an fs_info pointer. Let's convert those to
just accept an fs_info pointer directly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
With the exception of the one case where btrfs_wait_cache_io is called
without a block group, it's called with the same arguments. The root
argument is only used in the special case, so let's factor out the core
and simplify the call in the normal case to require a trans, block group,
and path.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
There are 11 functions that accept a root parameter and immediately
overwrite it. We can pass those an fs_info pointer instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
For many printks, we want to know which file system issued the message.
This patch converts most pr_* calls to use the btrfs_* versions instead.
In some cases, this means adding plumbing to allow call sites access to
an fs_info pointer.
fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c is left alone for another day.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
We can waste a lot of time searching through bitmaps when we are heavily
fragmented trying to find large contiguous areas that don't exist in the bitmap.
So keep track of the max extent size when we do a full search of a bitmap so
that next time around we can just skip the expensive searching if our max size
is less than what we are looking for. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
We loop through all of the dirty block groups during commit and write
the free space cache. In order to make sure the cache is currect, we do
this while no other writers are allowed in the commit.
If a large number of block groups are dirty, this can introduce long
stalls during the final stages of the commit, which can block new procs
trying to change the filesystem.
This commit changes the block group cache writeout to take appropriate
locks and allow it to run earlier in the commit. We'll still have to
redo some of the block groups, but it means we can get most of the work
out of the way without blocking the entire FS.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Block group cache writeout is currently waiting on the pages for each
block group cache before moving on to writing the next one. This commit
switches things around to send down all the caches and then wait on them
in batches.
The end result is much faster, since we're keeping the disk pipeline
full.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Trimming is completely transactionless, and the way it operates consists
of hiding free space entries from a block group, perform the trim/discard
and then make the free space entries visible again.
Therefore while a free space entry is being trimmed, we can have free space
cache writing running in parallel (as part of a transaction commit) which
will miss the free space entry. This means that an unmount (or crash/reboot)
after that transaction commit and mount again before another transaction
starts/commits after the discard finishes, we will have some free space
that won't be used again unless the free space cache is rebuilt. After the
unmount, fsck (btrfsck, btrfs check) reports the issue like the following
example:
*** fsck.btrfs output ***
checking extents
checking free space cache
There is no free space entry for 521764864-521781248
There is no free space entry for 521764864-1103101952
cache appears valid but isnt 29360128
Checking filesystem on /dev/sdc
UUID: b4789e27-4774-4626-98e9-ae8dfbfb0fb5
found 1235681286 bytes used err is -22
(...)
Another issue caused by this race is a crash while writing bitmap entries
to the cache, because while the cache writeout task accesses the bitmaps,
the trim task can be concurrently modifying the bitmap or worse might
be freeing the bitmap. The later case results in the following crash:
[55650.804460] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[55650.804835] Modules linked in: btrfs dm_flakey dm_mod crc32c_generic xor raid6_pq nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfs_acl nfs lockd fscache sunrpc loop parport_pc parport i2c_piix4 psmouse evdev pcspkr microcode processor i2ccore serio_raw thermal_sys button ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache sg sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom crct10dif_generic crct10dif_common ata_generic virtio_scsi floppy ata_piix libata virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio scsi_mod e1000 [last unloaded: btrfs]
[55650.806169] CPU: 1 PID: 31002 Comm: btrfs-transacti Tainted: G W 3.17.0-rc5-btrfs-next-1+ #1
[55650.806493] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.7.5-0-ge51488c-20140602_164612-nilsson.home.kraxel.org 04/01/2014
[55650.806867] task: ffff8800b12f6410 ti: ffff880071538000 task.ti: ffff880071538000
[55650.807166] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa037cf45>] [<ffffffffa037cf45>] write_bitmap_entries+0x65/0xbb [btrfs]
[55650.807514] RSP: 0018:ffff88007153bc30 EFLAGS: 00010246
[55650.807687] RAX: 000000005d1ec000 RBX: ffff8800a665df08 RCX: 0000000000000400
[55650.807885] RDX: ffff88005d1ec000 RSI: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RDI: ffff88005d1ec000
[55650.808017] RBP: ffff88007153bc58 R08: 00000000ddd51536 R09: 00000000000001e0
[55650.808017] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000037 R12: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
[55650.808017] R13: ffff88007153bca8 R14: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b R15: ffff88007153bc98
[55650.808017] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88023ec80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[55650.808017] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[55650.808017] CR2: 0000000002273b88 CR3: 00000000b18f6000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[55650.808017] Stack:
[55650.808017] ffff88020e834e00 ffff880172d68db0 0000000000000000 ffff88019257c800
[55650.808017] ffff8801d42ea720 ffff88007153bd10 ffffffffa037d2fa ffff880224e99180
[55650.808017] ffff8801469a6188 ffff880224e99140 ffff880172d68c50 00000003000000b7
[55650.808017] Call Trace:
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa037d2fa>] __btrfs_write_out_cache+0x1ea/0x37f [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa037d959>] btrfs_write_out_cache+0xa1/0xd8 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa033936b>] btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups+0x4b5/0x505 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa03aa98e>] commit_cowonly_roots+0x15e/0x1f7 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffff813eb9c7>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x10
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa0346e46>] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x411/0x882 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa03432a4>] transaction_kthread+0xf2/0x1a4 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa03431b2>] ? btrfs_cleanup_transaction+0x3d8/0x3d8 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffff8105966b>] kthread+0xb7/0xbf
[55650.808017] [<ffffffff810595b4>] ? __kthread_parkme+0x67/0x67
[55650.808017] [<ffffffff813ebeac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[55650.808017] [<ffffffff810595b4>] ? __kthread_parkme+0x67/0x67
[55650.808017] Code: 4c 89 ef 8d 70 ff e8 d4 fc ff ff 41 8b 45 34 41 39 45 30 7d 5c 31 f6 4c 89 ef e8 80 f6 ff ff 49 8b 7d 00 4c 89 f6 b9 00 04 00 00 <f3> a5 4c 89 ef 41 8b 45 30 8d 70 ff e8 a3 fc ff ff 41 8b 45 34
[55650.808017] RIP [<ffffffffa037cf45>] write_bitmap_entries+0x65/0xbb [btrfs]
[55650.808017] RSP <ffff88007153bc30>
[55650.815725] ---[ end trace 1c032e96b149ff86 ]---
Fix this by serializing both tasks in such a way that cache writeout
doesn't wait for the trim/discard of free space entries to finish and
doesn't miss any free space entry.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Not used for anything, and removing it avoids caller's need to
allocate a path structure.
Signed-off-by: Filipe David Borba Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
We're doing a unnecessary extra lookup of the ino cache's
inode when we already have it (and holding a reference)
during the process of saving the ino cache contents to disk.
Therefore remove this extra lookup.
Signed-off-by: Filipe David Borba Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
By the current code, if the requested size is very large, and all the extents
in the free space cache are small, we will waste lots of the cpu time to cut
the requested size in half and search the cache again and again until it gets
down to the size the allocator can return. In fact, we can know the max extent
size in the cache after the first search, so we needn't cut the size in half
repeatedly, and just use the max extent size directly. This way can save
lots of cpu time and make the performance grow up when there are only fragments
in the free space cache.
According to my test, if there are only 4KB free space extents in the fs,
and the total size of those extents are 256MB, we can reduce the execute
time of the following test from 5.4s to 1.4s.
dd if=/dev/zero of=<testfile> bs=1MB count=1 oflag=sync
Changelog v2 -> v3:
- fix the problem that we skip the block group with the space which is
less than we need.
Changelog v1 -> v2:
- address the problem that we return a wrong start position when searching
the free space in a bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
The plan is to have a bunch of unit tests that run when btrfs is loaded when you
build with the appropriate config option. My ultimate goal is to have a test
for every non-static function we have, but at first I'm going to focus on the
things that cause us the most problems. To start out with this just adds a
tests/ directory and moves the existing free space cache tests into that
directory and sets up all of the infrastructure. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
I noticed while looking at a deadlock that we are always starting a transaction
in cow_file_range(). This isn't really needed since we only need a transaction
if we are doing an inline extent, or if the allocator needs to allocate a chunk.
So push down all the transaction start stuff to be closer to where we actually
need a transaction in all of these cases. This will hopefully reduce our write
latency when we are committing often. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
It is very likely that there are lots of subvolumes/snapshots in the filesystem,
so if we use global block reservation to do inode cache truncation, we may hog
all the free space that is reserved in global rsv. So it is better that we do
the free space reservation for inode cache truncation by ourselves.
Cc: Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
We keep hitting bugs in the tree log replay because btrfs_remove_free_space
doesn't account for some corner case. So add a bunch of tests to try and fully
test btrfs_remove_free_space since the only time it is called is during tree log
replay. These tests all finish successfully, so as we find more of these bugs
we need to add to these tests to make sure we don't regress in fixing things.
I've hidden the tests behind a Kconfig option, but they take no time to run so
all btrfs developers should have this turned on all the time. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
This is similar to block group caching.
We dedicate a special inode in fs tree to save free ino cache.
At the very first time we create/delete a file after mount, the free ino
cache will be loaded from disk into memory. When the fs tree is commited,
the cache will be written back to disk.
To keep compatibility, we check the root generation against the generation
of the special inode when loading the cache, so the loading will fail
if the btrfs filesystem was mounted in an older kernel before.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Currently btrfs stores the highest objectid of the fs tree, and it always
returns (highest+1) inode number when we create a file, so inode numbers
won't be reclaimed when we delete files, so we'll run out of inode numbers
as we keep create/delete files in 32bits machines.
This fixes it, and it works similarly to how we cache free space in block
cgroups.
We start a kernel thread to read the file tree. By scanning inode items,
we know which chunks of inode numbers are free, and we cache them in
an rb-tree.
Because we are searching the commit root, we have to carefully handle the
cross-transaction case.
The rb-tree is a hybrid extent+bitmap tree, so if we have too many small
chunks of inode numbers, we'll use bitmaps. Initially we allow 16K ram
of extents, and a bitmap will be used if we exceed this threshold. The
extents threshold is adjusted in runtime.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
So we can re-use the code to cache free inode numbers.
The change is quite straightforward. Two new structures are introduced.
- struct btrfs_free_space_ctl
We move those variables that are used for caching free space from
struct btrfs_block_group_cache to this new struct.
- struct btrfs_free_space_op
We do block group specific work (e.g. calculation of extents threshold)
through functions registered in this struct.
And then we can remove references to struct btrfs_block_group_cache.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
We take an free extent out from allocator, trim it, then put it back,
but before we trim the block group, we should make sure the block group is
cached, so plus a little change to make cache_block_group() run without a
transaction.
Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This patch actually loads the free space cache if it exists. The only thing
that really changes here is that we need to cache the block group if we're going
to remove an extent from it. Previously we did not do this since the caching
kthread would pick it up. With the on disk cache we don't have this luxury so
we need to make sure we read the on disk cache in first, and then remove the
extent, that way when the extent is unpinned the free space is added to the
block group. This has been tested with all sorts of things.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
This is a simple bit, just dump the free space cache out to our preallocated
inode when we're writing out dirty block groups. There are a bunch of changes
in inode.c in order to account for special cases. Mostly when we're doing the
writeout we're holding trans_mutex, so we need to use the nolock transacation
functions. Also we can't do asynchronous completions since the async thread
could be blocked on already completed IO waiting for the transaction lock. This
has been tested with xfstests and btrfs filesystem balance, as well as my ENOSPC
tests. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.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>
Currently btrfs has a problem where it can use a ridiculous amount of RAM simply
tracking free space. As free space gets fragmented, we end up with thousands of
entries on an rb-tree per block group, which usually spans 1 gig of area. Since
we currently don't ever flush free space cache back to disk this gets to be a
bit unweildly on large fs's with lots of fragmentation.
This patch solves this problem by using PAGE_SIZE bitmaps for parts of the free
space cache. Initially we calculate a threshold of extent entries we can
handle, which is however many extent entries we can cram into 16k of ram. The
maximum amount of RAM that should ever be used to track 1 gigabyte of diskspace
will be 32k of RAM, which scales much better than we did before.
Once we pass the extent threshold, we start adding bitmaps and using those
instead for tracking the free space. This patch also makes it so that any free
space thats less than 4 * sectorsize we go ahead and put into a bitmap. This is
nice since we try and allocate out of the front of a block group, so if the
front of a block group is heavily fragmented and then has a huge chunk of free
space at the end, we go ahead and add the fragmented areas to bitmaps and use a
normal extent entry to track the big chunk at the back of the block group.
I've also taken the opportunity to revamp how we search for free space.
Previously we indexed free space via an offset indexed rb tree and a bytes
indexed rb tree. I've dropped the bytes indexed rb tree and use only the offset
indexed rb tree. This cuts the number of tree operations we were doing
previously down by half, and gives us a little bit of a better allocation
pattern since we will always start from a specific offset and search forward
from there, instead of searching for the size we need and try and get it as
close as possible to the offset we want.
I've given this a healthy amount of testing pre-new format stuff, as well as
post-new format stuff. I've booted up my fedora box which is installed on btrfs
with this patch and ran with it for a few days without issues. I've not seen
any performance regressions in any of my tests.
Since the last patch Yan Zheng fixed a problem where we could have overlapping
entries, so updating their offset inline would cause problems. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Some SSDs perform best when reusing block numbers often, while
others perform much better when clustering strictly allocates
big chunks of unused space.
The default mount -o ssd will find rough groupings of blocks
where there are a bunch of free blocks that might have some
allocated blocks mixed in.
mount -o ssd_spread will make sure there are no allocated blocks
mixed in. It should perform better on lower end SSDs.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Because btrfs is copy-on-write, we end up picking new locations for
blocks very often. This makes it fairly difficult to maintain perfect
read patterns over time, but we can at least do some optimizations
for writes.
This is done today by remembering the last place we allocated and
trying to find a free space hole big enough to hold more than just one
allocation. The end result is that we tend to write sequentially to
the drive.
This happens all the time for metadata and it happens for data
when mounted -o ssd. But, the way we record it is fairly racey
and it tends to fragment the free space over time because we are trying
to allocate fairly large areas at once.
This commit gets rid of the races by adding a free space cluster object
with dedicated locking to make sure that only one process at a time
is out replacing the cluster.
The free space fragmentation is somewhat solved by allowing a cluster
to be comprised of smaller free space extents. This part definitely
adds some CPU time to the cluster allocations, but it allows the allocator
to consume the small holes left behind by cow.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Dennis Zhou