I noticed a huge problem with the free space cache that was presenting
as an early ENOSPC. Turns out when writing the free space cache out I
forgot to take into account pinned extents and more importantly
clusters. This would result in us leaking free space everytime we
unmounted the filesystem and remounted it.
I fix this by making sure to check and see if the current block group
has a cluster and writing out any entries that are in the cluster to the
cache, as well as writing any pinned extents we currently have to the
cache since those will be available for us to use the next time the fs
mounts.
This patch also adds a check to the end of load_free_space_cache to make
sure we got the right amount of free space cache, and if not make sure
to clear the cache and re-cache the old fashioned way.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
the object id of the space cache inode's key is allocated from the relative
root, just like the regular file. So we can't identify space cache inode by
checking the object id of the inode's key, and we have to clear __GFP_FS flag
at the time we look up the space cache inode.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.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 makes the free space cluster refilling code a little easier to
understand, and fixes some things with the bitmap part of it. Currently we
either want to refill a cluster with
1) All normal extent entries (those without bitmaps)
2) A bitmap entry with enough space
The current code has this ugly jump around logic that will first try and fill up
the cluster with extent entries and then if it can't do that it will try and
find a bitmap to use. So instead split this out into two functions, one that
tries to find only normal entries, and one that tries to find bitmaps.
This also fixes a suboptimal thing we would do with bitmaps. If we used a
bitmap we would just tell the cluster that we were pointing at a bitmap and it
would do the tree search in the block group for that entry every time we tried
to make an allocation. Instead of doing that now we just add it to the clusters
group.
I tested this with my ENOSPC tests and xfstests and it survived.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
We have been creating bitmaps for small extents unconditionally forever. This
was great when testing to make sure the bitmap stuff was working, but is
overkill normally. So instead of always adding small chunks of free space to
bitmaps, only start doing it if we go past half of our extent threshold. This
will keeps us from creating a bitmap for just one small free extent at the front
of the block group, and will make the allocator a little faster as a result.
Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
We do all this fun stuff with min_bytes, but either don't use it in the case of
just normal extents, or use it completely wrong in the case of bitmaps. So fix
this for both cases
1) In the extent case, stop looking for space with window_free >= min_bytes
instead of bytes + empty_size.
2) In the bitmap case, we were looking for streches of free space that was at
least min_bytes in size, which was not right at all. So instead search for
stretches of free space that are at least bytes in size (this will make a
difference when we have > page size blocks) and then only search for min_bytes
amount of free space.
Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
The free space cluster stuff is heavy duty, so there is no sense in going
through the entire song and dance if there isn't enough space in the block group
to begin with. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Since we alloc/free free space entries a whole lot, lets use a slab to keep
track of them. This makes some of my tests slightly faster. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
When we're cleaning up the tree log we need to be able to remove free space from
the block group. The problem is if that free space spans bitmaps we would not
find the space since we're looking for too many bytes. So make sure the amount
of bytes we search for is limited to either the number of bytes we want, or the
number of bytes left in the bitmap. This was tested by a user who was hitting
the BUG() after search_bitmap. With this patch he can now mount his fs.
Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
After returing extents from a cluster to the block group, some
extents in the block group may be mergeable.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
When adding a new extent, we'll firstly see if we can merge
this extent to the left or/and right extent. Extract this as
a helper try_merge_free_space().
As a side effect, we fix a small bug that if the new extent
has non-bitmap left entry but is unmergeble, we'll directly
link the extent without trying to drop it into bitmap.
This also prepares for the next patch.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
When allocating extent entry from a cluster, we should update
the free_space and free_extents fields of the block group.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
If there's no more free space in a bitmap, we should free it.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Remove some duplicated code.
This prepares for the next patch.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
If a block group is smaller than 1GB, the extent entry threadhold
calculation will always set the threshold to 0.
So as free space gets fragmented, btrfs will switch to use bitmap
to manage free space, but then will never switch back to extents
due to this bug.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Currently if the space cache inode generation number doesn't match the
generation number in the space cache header we will just fail to load the space
cache, but we won't mark the space cache as an error, so we'll keep getting that
error each time somebody tries to cache that block group until we actually clear
the thing. Fix this by marking the space cache as having an error so we only
get the message once. This patch also makes it so that we don't try and setup
space cache for a block group that isn't cached, since we won't be able to write
it out anyway. None of these problems are actual problems, they are just
annoying and sub-optimal. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
If something goes wrong with the free space cache we need a way to make sure
it's not loaded on mount and that it's cleared for everybody. When you pass the
clear_cache option it will make it so all block groups are setup to be cleared,
which keeps them from being loaded and then they will be truncated when the
transaction is committed. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.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>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
btrfs inialize rb trees in quite a number of places by settin rb_node =
NULL; The problem with this is that 17d9ddc72f in the
linux-next tree adds a new field to that struct which needs to be NULL for
the new rbtree library code to work properly. This patch uses RB_ROOT as
the intializer so all of the relevant fields will be NULL'd. Without the
patch I get a panic.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This patch fixes a problem where max_size can be set to 0 even though we
filled the cluster properly. We set max_size to 0 if we restart the cluster
window, but if the new start entry is big enough to be our new cluster then we
could return with a max_size set to 0, which will mean the next time we try to
allocate from this cluster it will fail. So set max_extent to the entry's
size. Tested this on my box and now we actually allocate from the cluster
after we fill it. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
There is a slight problem with the extent entry threshold calculation for the
free space cache. We only adjust the threshold down as we add bitmaps, but
never actually adjust the threshold up as we add bitmaps. This means we could
fragment the free space so badly that we end up using all bitmaps to describe
the free space, use all the free space which would result in the bitmaps being
freed, but then go to add free space again as we delete things and immediately
add bitmaps since the extent threshold would still be 0. Now as we free
bitmaps the extent threshold will be ratcheted up to allow more extent entries
to be added.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
When we first go to add free space, we allocate a new info and set the offset
and bytes to the space we are adding. This is fine, except we actually set the
size of a bitmap as we set the bits in it, so if we add space to a bitmap, we'd
end up counting the same space twice. This isn't a huge deal, it just makes
the allocator behave weirdly since it will think that a bitmap entry has more
space than it ends up actually having. I used a BUG_ON() to catch when this
problem happened, and with this patch I no longer get the BUG_ON().
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Yan Zheng hit a problem where we tried to remove some free space but failed
because we couldn't find the free space entry. This is because the free space
was held within a bitmap that had a starting offset well before the actual
offset of the free space, and there were free space extents that were in the
same range as that offset, so tree_search_offset returned with NULL because we
couldn't find a free space extent that had that offset. This is fixed by
making sure that if we fail to find the entry, we re-search again with
bitmap_only set to 1 and do an offset_to_bitmap so we can get the appropriate
bitmap. A similar problem happens in btrfs_alloc_from_bitmap for the
clustering code, but that is not as bad since we will just go and redo our
cluster allocation.
Also this adds some debugging checks to make sure that the free space we are
trying to remove from the bitmap is in fact there. This can probably go away
after a while, but since this code is only used by the tree-logging stuff it
would be nice to run with it for a while to make sure there are no problems.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This patch moves the caching of the block group off to a kthread in order to
allow people to allocate sooner. Instead of blocking up behind the caching
mutex, we instead kick of the caching kthread, and then attempt to make an
allocation. If we cannot, we wait on the block groups caching waitqueue, which
the caching kthread will wake the waiting threads up everytime it finds 2 meg
worth of space, and then again when its finished caching. This is how I tested
the speedup from this
mkfs the disk
mount the disk
fill the disk up with fs_mark
unmount the disk
mount the disk
time touch /mnt/foo
Without my changes this took 11 seconds on my box, with these changes it now
takes 1 second.
Another change thats been put in place is we lock the super mirror's in the
pinned extent map in order to keep us from adding that stuff as free space when
caching the block group. This doesn't really change anything else as far as the
pinned extent map is concerned, since for actual pinned extents we use
EXTENT_DIRTY, but it does mean that when we unmount we have to go in and unlock
those extents to keep from leaking memory.
I've also added a check where when we are reading block groups from disk, if the
amount of space used == the size of the block group, we go ahead and mark the
block group as cached. This drastically reduces the amount of time it takes to
cache the block groups. Using the same test as above, except doing a dd to a
file and then unmounting, it used to take 33 seconds to umount, now it takes 3
seconds.
This version uses the commit_root in the caching kthread, and then keeps track
of how many async caching threads are running at any given time so if one of the
async threads is still running as we cross transactions we can wait until its
finished before handling the pinned extents. Thank you,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.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>
In SSD mode for data, and all the time for metadata the allocator
will try to find a cluster of nearby blocks for allocations. This
commit adds extra checks to make sure that each free block in the
cluster is close to the last one.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The block allocator in SSD mode will try to find groups of free blocks
that are close together. This commit makes it loop less on a given
group size before bumping it.
The end result is that we are less likely to fill small holes in the
available free space, but we don't waste as much CPU building the
large cluster used by ssd mode.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Just happened to notice a bunch of %llu vs u64 warnings. Here's a patch
to cast them all.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
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>
This patch removes the block group alloc mutex used to protect the free space
tree for allocations and replaces it with a spin lock which is used only to
protect the free space rb tree. This means we only take the lock when we are
directly manipulating the tree, which makes us a touch faster with
multi-threaded workloads.
This patch also gets rid of btrfs_find_free_space and replaces it with
btrfs_find_space_for_alloc, which takes the number of bytes you want to
allocate, and empty_size, which is used to indicate how much free space should
be at the end of the allocation.
It will return an offset for the allocator to use. If we don't end up using it
we _must_ call btrfs_add_free_space to put it back. This is the tradeoff to
kill the alloc_mutex, since we need to make sure nobody else comes along and
takes our space.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up the free space cache code a bit. It better documents the
idiosyncrasies of tree_search_offset and makes the code make a bit more sense.
I took out the info allocation at the start of __btrfs_add_free_space and put it
where it makes more sense. This was left over cruft from when alloc_mutex
existed. Also all of the re-searches we do to make sure we inserted properly.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
This patch implements superblock duplication. Superblocks
are stored at offset 16K, 64M and 256G on every devices.
Spaces used by superblocks are preserved by the allocator,
which uses a reverse mapping function to find the logical
addresses that correspond to superblocks. Thank you,
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
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>
This patch removes the giant fs_info->alloc_mutex and replaces it with a bunch
of little locks.
There is now a pinned_mutex, which is used when messing with the pinned_extents
extent io tree, and the extent_ins_mutex which is used with the pending_del and
extent_ins extent io trees.
The locking for the extent tree stuff was inspired by a patch that Yan Zheng
wrote to fix a race condition, I cleaned it up some and changed the locking
around a little bit, but the idea remains the same. Basically instead of
holding the extent_ins_mutex throughout the processing of an extent on the
extent_ins or pending_del trees, we just hold it while we're searching and when
we clear the bits on those trees, and lock the extent for the duration of the
operations on the extent.
Also to keep from getting hung up waiting to lock an extent, I've added a
try_lock_extent so if we cannot lock the extent, move on to the next one in the
tree and we'll come back to that one. I have tested this heavily and it does
not appear to break anything. This has to be applied on top of my
find_free_extent redo patch.
I tested this patch on top of Yan's space reblancing code and it worked fine.
The only thing that has changed since the last version is I pulled out all my
debugging stuff, apparently I forgot to run guilt refresh before I sent the
last patch out. Thank you,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Sometimes we end up freeing a reserved extent because we don't need it, however
this means that its possible for transaction->last_alloc to point to the middle
of a free area.
When we search for free space in find_free_space we do a tree_search_offset
with contains set to 0, because we want it to find the next best free area if
we do not have an offset starting on the given offset.
Unfortunately that currently means that if the offset we were given as a hint
points to the middle of a free area, we won't find anything. This is especially
bad if we happened to last allocate from the big huge chunk of a newly formed
block group, since we won't find anything and have to go back and search the
long way around.
This fixes this problem by making it so that we return the free space area
regardless of the contains variable. This made cache missing happen _alot_
less, and speeds things up considerably.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
After a crash, the tree log code uses btrfs_alloc_logged_extent to
record allocations of data extents that it finds in the log tree. These
come in basically random order, which does not fit how
btrfs_remove_free_space() expects to be called.
btrfs_remove_free_space was changed to support recording an extent
allocation in the middle of a region of free space.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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>
Josef Bacik