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  1. 31 Mar, 2009 1 commit
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      Btrfs: add extra flushing for renames and truncates · 5a3f23d5
      Chris Mason authored 
      Renames and truncates are both common ways to replace old data with new
data.  The filesystem can make an effort to make sure the new data is
on disk before actually replacing the old data.

This is especially important for rename, which many application use as
though it were atomic for both the data and the metadata involved.  The
current btrfs code will happily replace a file that is fully on disk
with one that was just created and still has pending IO.

If we crash after transaction commit but before the IO is done, we'll end
up replacing a good file with a zero length file.  The solution used
here is to create a list of inodes that need special ordering and force
them to disk before the commit is done.  This is similar to the
ext3 style data=ordering, except it is only done on selected files.

Btrfs is able to get away with this because it does not wait on commits
very often, even for fsync (which use a sub-commit).

For renames, we order the file when it wasn't already
on disk and when it is replacing an existing file.  Larger files
are sent to filemap_flush right away (before the transaction handle is
opened).

For truncates, we order if the file goes from non-zero size down to
zero size.  This is a little different, because at the time of the
truncate the file has no dirty bytes to order.  But, we flag the inode
so that it is added to the ordered list on close (via release method).  We
also immediately add it to the ordered list of the current transaction
so that we can try to flush down any writes the application sneaks in
before commit.
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      5a3f23d5
  3. 25 Mar, 2009 1 commit
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      Btrfs: make sure btrfs_update_delayed_ref doesn't increase ref_mod · 1a81af4d
      Chris Mason authored 
      btrfs_update_delayed_ref is optimized to add and remove different
references in one pass through the delayed ref tree.  It is a zero
sum on the total number of refs on a given extent.

But, the code was recording an extra ref in the head node.  This
never made it down to the disk but was used when deciding if it was
safe to free the extent while dropping snapshots.

The fix used here is to make sure the ref_mod count is unchanged
on the head ref when btrfs_update_delayed_ref is called.
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      1a81af4d
  5. 24 Mar, 2009 15 commits
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      Btrfs: optimize fsyncs on old files · af4176b4
      Chris Mason authored 
      The fsync log has code to make sure all of the parents of a file are in the
log along with the file.  It uses a minimal log of the parent directory
inodes, just enough to get the parent directory on disk.

If the transaction that originally created a file is fully on disk,
and the file hasn't been renamed or linked into other directories, we
can safely skip the parent directory walk.  We know the file is on disk
somewhere and we can go ahead and just log that single file.

This is more important now because unrelated unlinks in the parent directory
might make us force a commit if we try to log the parent.
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      af4176b4
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      Btrfs: tree logging unlink/rename fixes · 12fcfd22
      Chris Mason authored 
      The tree logging code allows individual files or directories to be logged
without including operations on other files and directories in the FS.
It tries to commit the minimal set of changes to disk in order to
fsync the single file or directory that was sent to fsync or O_SYNC.

The tree logging code was allowing files and directories to be unlinked
if they were part of a rename operation where only one directory
in the rename was in the fsync log.  This patch adds a few new rules
to the tree logging.

1) on rename or unlink, if the inode being unlinked isn't in the fsync
log, we must force a full commit before doing an fsync of the directory
where the unlink was done.  The commit isn't done during the unlink,
but it is forced the next time we try to log the parent directory.

Solution: record transid of last unlink/rename per directory when the
directory wasn't already logged.  For renames this is only done when
renaming to a different directory.

mkdir foo/some_dir
normal commit
rename foo/some_dir foo2/some_dir
mkdir foo/some_dir
fsync foo/some_dir/some_file

The fsync above will unlink the original some_dir without recording
it in its new location (foo2).  After a crash, some_dir will be gone
unless the fsync of some_file forces a full commit

2) we must log any new names for any file or dir that is in the fsync
log.  This way we make sure not to lose files that are unlinked during
the same transaction.

2a) we must log any new names for any file or dir during rename
when the directory they are being removed from was logged.

2a is actually the more important variant.  Without the extra logging
a crash might unlink the old name without recreating the new one

3) after a crash, we must go through any directories with a link count
of zero and redo the rm -rf

mkdir f1/foo
normal commit
rm -rf f1/foo
fsync(f1)

The directory f1 was fully removed from the FS, but fsync was never
called on f1, only its parent dir.  After a crash the rm -rf must
be replayed.  This must be able to recurse down the entire
directory tree.  The inode link count fixup code takes care of the
ugly details.
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      12fcfd22
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      Btrfs: Make sure i_nlink doesn't hit zero too soon during log replay · a74ac322
      Chris Mason authored 
      During log replay, inodes are copied from the log to the main filesystem
btrees.  Sometimes they have a zero link count in the log but they actually
gain links during the replay or have some in the main btree.

This patch updates the link count to be at least one after copying the
inode out of the log.  This makes sure the inode is deleted during an
iput while the rest of the replay code is still working on it.

The log replay has fixup code to make sure that link counts are correct
at the end of the replay, so we could use any non-zero number here and
it would work fine.
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      a74ac322
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      Btrfs: limit balancing work while flushing delayed refs · a4b6e07d
      Chris Mason authored 
      The delayed reference mechanism is responsible for all updates to the
extent allocation trees, including those updates created while processing
the delayed references.

This commit tries to limit the amount of work that gets created during
the final run of delayed refs before a commit.  It avoids cowing new blocks
unless it is required to finish the commit, and so it avoids new allocations
that were not really required.

The goal is to avoid infinite loops where we are always making more work
on the final run of delayed refs.  Over the long term we'll make a
special log for the last delayed ref updates as well.
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      a4b6e07d
    • Chris Mason's avatar
      Btrfs: readahead checksums during btrfs_finish_ordered_io · 5d13a98f
      Chris Mason authored 
      This reads in blocks in the checksum btree before starting the
transaction in btrfs_finish_ordered_io.  It makes it much more likely
we'll be able to do operations inside the transaction without
needing any btree reads, which limits transaction latencies overall.
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      5d13a98f
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      Btrfs: leave btree locks spinning more often · b9473439
      Chris Mason authored 
      btrfs_mark_buffer dirty would set dirty bits in the extent_io tree
for the buffers it was dirtying.  This may require a kmalloc and it
was not atomic.  So, anyone who called btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty had to
set any btree locks they were holding to blocking first.

This commit changes dirty tracking for extent buffers to just use a flag
in the extent buffer.  Now that we have one and only one extent buffer
per page, this can be safely done without losing dirty bits along the way.

This also introduces a path->leave_spinning flag that callers of
btrfs_search_slot can use to indicate they will properly deal with a
path returned where all the locks are spinning instead of blocking.

Many of the btree search callers now expect spinning paths,
resulting in better btree concurrency overall.
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      b9473439
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      Btrfs: Only let very young transactions grow during commit · 89573b9c
      Chris Mason authored 
      Commits are fairly expensive, and so btrfs has code to sit around for a while
during the commit and let new writers come in.

But, while we're sitting there, new delayed refs might be added, and those
can be expensive to process as well.  Unless the transaction is very very
young, it makes sense to go ahead and let the commit finish without hanging
around.

The commit grow loop isn't as important as it used to be, the fsync logging
code handles most performance critical syncs now.
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      89573b9c
    • Chris Mason's avatar
      Btrfs: Check for a blocking lock before taking the spin · 66d7e85e
      Chris Mason authored 
      This reduces contention on the extent buffer spin locks by testing for a
blocking lock before trying to take the spinlock.
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      66d7e85e
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      Btrfs: reduce stack in cow_file_range · 7f366cfe
      Chris Mason authored 
      The fs/btrfs/inode.c code to run delayed allocation during writout
needed some stack usage optimization.  This is the first pass, it does
the check for compression earlier on, which allows us to do the common
(no compression) case higher up in the call chain.
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      7f366cfe
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      Btrfs: reduce stalls during transaction commit · b7ec40d7
      Chris Mason authored 
      To avoid deadlocks and reduce latencies during some critical operations, some
transaction writers are allowed to jump into the running transaction and make
it run a little longer, while others sit around and wait for the commit to
finish.

This is a bit unfair, especially when the callers that jump in do a bunch
of IO that makes all the others procs on the box wait.  This commit
reduces the stalls this produces by pre-reading file extent pointers
during btrfs_finish_ordered_io before the transaction is joined.

It also tunes the drop_snapshot code to politely wait for transactions
that have started writing out their delayed refs to finish.  This avoids
new delayed refs being flooded into the queue while we're trying to
close off the transaction.
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      b7ec40d7
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      Btrfs: process the delayed reference queue in clusters · c3e69d58
      Chris Mason authored 
      The delayed reference queue maintains pending operations that need to
be done to the extent allocation tree.  These are processed by
finding records in the tree that are not currently being processed one at
a time.

This is slow because it uses lots of time searching through the rbtree
and because it creates lock contention on the extent allocation tree
when lots of different procs are running delayed refs at the same time.

This commit changes things to grab a cluster of refs for processing,
using a cursor into the rbtree as the starting point of the next search.
This way we walk smoothly through the rbtree.
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      c3e69d58
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      Btrfs: try to cleanup delayed refs while freeing extents · 1887be66
      Chris Mason authored 
      When extents are freed, it is likely that we've removed the last
delayed reference update for the extent.  This checks the delayed
ref tree when things are freed, and if no ref updates area left it
immediately processes the delayed ref.
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      1887be66
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      Btrfs: reduce stack usage in some crucial tree balancing functions · 44871b1b
      Chris Mason authored 
      Many of the tree balancing functions follow the same pattern.

1) cow a block
2) do something to the result

This commit breaks them up into two functions so the variables and
code required for part two don't suck down stack during part one.
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      44871b1b
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      Btrfs: do extent allocation and reference count updates in the background · 56bec294
      Chris Mason authored 
      The extent allocation tree maintains a reference count and full
back reference information for every extent allocated in the
filesystem.  For subvolume and snapshot trees, every time
a block goes through COW, the new copy of the block adds a reference
on every block it points to.

If a btree node points to 150 leaves, then the COW code needs to go
and add backrefs on 150 different extents, which might be spread all
over the extent allocation tree.

These updates currently happen during btrfs_cow_block, and most COWs
happen during btrfs_search_slot.  btrfs_search_slot has locks held
on both the parent and the node we are COWing, and so we really want
to avoid IO during the COW if we can.

This commit adds an rbtree of pending reference count updates and extent
allocations.  The tree is ordered by byte number of the extent and byte number
of the parent for the back reference.  The tree allows us to:

1) Modify back references in something close to disk order, reducing seeks
2) Significantly reduce the number of modifications made as block pointers
are balanced around
3) Do all of the extent insertion and back reference modifications outside
of the performance critical btrfs_search_slot code.

#3 has the added benefit of greatly reducing the btrfs stack footprint.
The extent allocation tree modifications are done without the deep
(and somewhat recursive) call chains used in the past.

These delayed back reference updates must be done before the transaction
commits, and so the rbtree is tied to the transaction.  Throttling is
implemented to help keep the queue of backrefs at a reasonable size.

Since there was a similar mechanism in place for the extent tree
extents, that is removed and replaced by the delayed reference tree.

Yan Zheng <yan.zheng@oracle.com> helped review and fixup this code.
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      56bec294
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      Btrfs: don't preallocate metadata blocks during btrfs_search_slot · 9fa8cfe7
      Chris Mason authored 
      In order to avoid doing expensive extent management with tree locks held,
btrfs_search_slot will preallocate tree blocks for use by COW without
any tree locks held.

A later commit moves all of the extent allocation work for COW into
a delayed update mechanism, and this preallocation will no longer be
required.
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      9fa8cfe7
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