btrfs: introduce tickets_id to determine whether asynchronous metadata reclaim work makes progress

In btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space(), we use ticket's address to
determine whether asynchronous metadata reclaim work is making progress.

	ticket = list_first_entry(&space_info->tickets,
				  struct reserve_ticket, list);
	if (last_ticket == ticket) {
		flush_state++;
	} else {
		last_ticket = ticket;
		flush_state = FLUSH_DELAYED_ITEMS_NR;
		if (commit_cycles)
			commit_cycles--;
	}

But indeed it's wrong, we should not rely on local variable's address to
do this check, because addresses may be same. In my test environment, I
dd one 168MB file in a 256MB fs, found that for this file, every time
wait_reserve_ticket() called, local variable ticket's address is same,

For above codes, assume a previous ticket's address is addrA, last_ticket
is addrA. Btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space() finished this ticket and
wake up it, then another ticket is added, but with the same address addrA,
now last_ticket will be same to current ticket, then current ticket's flush
work will start from current flush_state, not initial FLUSH_DELAYED_ITEMS_NR,
which may result in some enospc issues(I have seen this in my test machine).

Signed-off-by: Wang Xiaoguang <wangxg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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Wang Xiaoguang
2016-09-02 10:58:46 +08:00
committed by David Sterba
parent ed7a694839
commit ce129655c9
2 changed files with 7 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ struct btrfs_space_info {
struct list_head ro_bgs;
struct list_head priority_tickets;
struct list_head tickets;
u64 tickets_id;
struct rw_semaphore groups_sem;
/* for block groups in our same type */