mount -o thread_pool_size changes the default, which is
min(num_cpus + 2, 8). Larger thread pools would make more sense on
very large disk arrays.
This mount option controls the max size of each thread pool. There
are multiple thread pools, so the total worker count will be larger
than the mount option.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Btrfs has been using workqueues to spread the checksumming load across
other CPUs in the system. But, workqueues only schedule work on the
same CPU that queued the work, giving them a limited benefit for systems with
higher CPU counts.
This code adds a generic facility to schedule work with pools of kthreads,
and changes the bio submission code to queue bios up. The queueing is
important to make sure large numbers of procs on the system don't
turn streaming workloads into random workloads by sending IO down
concurrently.
The end result of all of this is much higher performance (and CPU usage) when
doing checksumming on large machines. Two worker pools are created,
one for writes and one for endio processing. The two could deadlock if
we tried to service both from a single pool.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Also adds lots of comments to describe what's going on here.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
These ioctls let a user application hold a transaction open while it
performs a series of operations. A final ioctl does a sync on the fs
(closing the current transaction). This is the main requirement for
Ceph's OSD to be able to keep the data it's storing in a btrfs volume
consistent, and AFAICS it works just fine. The application would do
something like
fd = ::open("some/file", O_RDONLY);
::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_START);
/* do a bunch of stuff */
::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_END);
or just
::close(fd);
And to ensure it commits to disk,
::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_SYNC);
When a transaction is held open, the trans_handle is attached to the
struct file (via private_data) so that it will get cleaned up if the
process dies unexpectedly. A held transaction is also ended on fsync() to
avoid a deadlock.
A misbehaving application could also deliberately hold a transaction open,
effectively locking up the FS, so it may make sense to restrict something
like this to root or something.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
We need to invalidate an existing dcache entry after creating a new
snapshot or subvolume, because a negative dache entry will stop us from
accessing the new snapshot or subvolume.
---
ctree.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
inode.c | 4 ++++
transaction.c | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
* Force chunk allocation when find_free_extent has to do a full scan
* Record the max key at the start of defrag so it doesn't run forever
* Block groups might not be contiguous, make a forward search for the
next block group in extent-tree.c
* Get rid of extra checks for total fs size
* Fix relocate_one_reference to avoid relocating the same file data block
twice when referenced by an older transaction
* Use the open device count when allocating chunks so that we don't
try to allocate from devices that don't exist
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The async submit workqueue was absorbing too many requests, leading to long
stalls where the async submitters were stalling.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Before, nodatacow only checked to make sure multiple roots didn't have
references on a single extent. This check makes sure that multiple
inodes don't have references.
nodatacow needed an extra check to see if the block group was currently
readonly. This way cows forced by the chunk relocation code are honored.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This required a few structural changes to the code that manages bdev pointers:
The VFS super block now gets an anon-bdev instead of a pointer to the
lowest bdev. This allows us to avoid swapping the super block bdev pointer
around at run time.
The code to read in the super block no longer goes through the extent
buffer interface. Things got ugly keeping the mapping constant.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This significantly improves streaming write performance by allowing
concurrency in the data checksumming.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This allows checksumming to happen in parallel among many cpus, and
keeps us from bogging down pdflush with the checksumming code.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Block headers now store the chunk tree uuid
Chunk items records the device uuid for each stripes
Device extent items record better back refs to the chunk tree
Block groups record better back refs to the chunk tree
The chunk tree format has also changed. The objectid of BTRFS_CHUNK_ITEM_KEY
used to be the logical offset of the chunk. Now it is a chunk tree id,
with the logical offset being stored in the offset field of the key.
This allows a single chunk tree to record multiple logical address spaces,
upping the number of bytes indexed by a chunk tree from 2^64 to
2^128.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
On huge machines, delayed allocation may try to allocate massive extents.
This change allows btrfs_alloc_extent to return something smaller than
the caller asked for, and the data allocation routines will loop over
the allocations until it fills the whole delayed alloc.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Before, metadata checksumming was done by the callers of read_tree_block,
which would set EXTENT_CSUM bits in the extent tree to show that a given
range of pages was already checksummed and didn't need to be verified
again.
But, those bits could go away via try_to_releasepage, and the end
result was bogus checksum failures on pages that never left the cache.
The new code validates checksums when the page is read. It is a little
tricky because metadata blocks can span pages and a single read may
end up going via multiple bios.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This allows detection of blocks that have already been written in the
running transaction so they can be recowed instead of modified again.
It is step one in trusting the transid field of the block pointers.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
When we checkum file data during writepage, the checksumming is done one
page at a time, making it difficult to do bulk metadata modifications
to insert checksums for large ranges of the file at once.
This patch changes btrfs to checksum on a per-bio basis instead. The
bios are checksummed before they are handed off to the block layer, so
each bio is contiguous and only has pages from the same inode.
Checksumming on a bio basis allows us to insert and modify the file
checksum items in large groups. It also allows the checksumming to
be done more easily by async worker threads.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Btrfs set/get macros lose type information needed to avoid
unaligned accesses on sparc64.
ere is a patch for the kernel bits which fixes most of the
unaligned accesses on sparc64.
btrfs_name_hash is modified to return the hash value instead
of getting a return location via a (potentially unaligned)
pointer.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Now that delayed allocation accounting works, i_blocks accounting is changed
to only modify i_blocks when extents inserted or removed.
The fillattr call is changed to include the delayed allocation byte count
in the i_blocks result.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
There is now extent_map for mapping offsets in the file to disk and
extent_io for state tracking, IO submission and extent_bufers.
The new extent_map code shifts from [start,end] pairs to [start,len], and
pushes the locking out into the caller. This allows a few performance
optimizations and is easier to use.
A number of extent_map usage bugs were fixed, mostly with failing
to remove extent_map entries when changing the file.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
There were a few places that could cause duplicate extent insertion,
this adjusts the code that creates holes to avoid it.
lookup_extent_map is changed to correctly return all of the extents in a
range, even when there are none matching at the start of the range.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
