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    Btrfs: track dirty block groups on their own list · ce93ec54
    Josef Bacik authored
    Currently any time we try to update the block groups on disk we will walk _all_
    block groups and check for the ->dirty flag to see if it is set.  This function
    can get called several times during a commit.  So if you have several terabytes
    of data you will be a very sad panda as we will loop through _all_ of the block
    groups several times, which makes the commit take a while which slows down the
    rest of the file system operations.
    
    This patch introduces a dirty list for the block groups that we get added to
    when we dirty the block group for the first time.  Then we simply update any
    block groups that have been dirtied since the last time we called
    btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups.  This allows us to clean up how we write the
    free space cache out so it is much cleaner.  Thanks,
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mason <clm@fb.com>
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