One lock per btree block can make for significant congestion if everyone
has to wait for IO at the high levels of the btree. This drops
locks held by a path when doing reads during a tree search.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Extent alloctions are still protected by a large alloc_mutex.
Objectid allocations are covered by a objectid mutex
Other btree operations are protected by a lock on individual btree nodes
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The allocation trees and the chunk trees are serialized via their own
dedicated mutexes. This means allocation location is still not very
fine grained.
The main FS btree is protected by locks on each block in the btree. Locks
are taken top / down, and as processing finishes on a given level of the
tree, the lock is released after locking the lower level.
The end result of a search is now a path where only the lowest level
is locked. Releasing or freeing the path drops any locks held.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
If a bio submission is after a lock holder waiting for the bio
on the work queue, it is possible to deadlock. Move the bios
into their own pool.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Split the ioctl handling out of inode.c into a file of it's own.
Also fix up checkpatch.pl warnings for the moved code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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>
Chris Mason
Christoph Hellwig
Sage Weil
Sven Wegener