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    btrfs: defrag: don't use merged extent map for their generation check · 199257a7
    Qu Wenruo authored
    For extent maps, if they are not compressed extents and are adjacent by
    logical addresses and file offsets, they can be merged into one larger
    extent map.
    
    Such merged extent map will have the higher generation of all the
    original ones.
    
    But this brings a problem for autodefrag, as it relies on accurate
    extent_map::generation to determine if one extent should be defragged.
    
    For merged extent maps, their higher generation can mark some older
    extents to be defragged while the original extent map doesn't meet the
    minimal generation threshold.
    
    Thus this will cause extra IO.
    
    So solve the problem, here we introduce a new flag, EXTENT_FLAG_MERGED,
    to indicate if the extent map is merged from one or more ems.
    
    And for autodefrag, if we find a merged extent map, and its generation
    meets the generation requirement, we just don't use this one, and go
    back to defrag_get_extent() to read extent maps from subvolume trees.
    
    This could cause more read IO, but should result less defrag data write,
    so in the long run it should be a win for autodefrag.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarQu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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