btrfs: avoid create and commit empty transaction when committing super
At btrfs_commit_super(), called in a few contexts such as when unmounting a filesystem, we use btrfs_join_transaction() to catch any running transaction and then commit it. This will however create a new and empty transaction in case there's no running transaction or there's a running transaction with a state >= TRANS_STATE_UNBLOCKED. As we just want to be sure that any existing transaction is fully committed, we can use btrfs_attach_transaction_barrier() instead of btrfs_join_transaction(), therefore avoiding the creation and commit of empty transactions, which only waste IO and causes rotation of the precious backup roots. Example where we create and commit a pointless empty transaction: $ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdj $ btrfs inspect-internal dump-super /dev/sdj | grep -e '^generation' generation 6 $ mount /dev/sdj /mnt/sdj $ touch /mnt/sdj/foo # Commit the currently open transaction. Just 'sync' or wait ~30 # seconds for the transaction kthread to commit it. $ sync $ btrfs inspect-internal dump-super /dev/sdj | grep -e '^generation' generation 7 $ umount /mnt/sdj $ btrfs inspect-internal dump-super /dev/sdj | grep -e '^generation' generation 8 The transaction with id 8 was pointless, an empty transaction that did not achieve anything. Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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