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2009-02-04Btrfs: Make btrfs_drop_snapshot work in larger and more efficient chunksChris Mason
Every transaction in btrfs creates a new snapshot, and then schedules the snapshot from the last transaction for deletion. Snapshot deletion works by walking down the btree and dropping the reference counts on each btree block during the walk. If if a given leaf or node has a reference count greater than one, the reference count is decremented and the subtree pointed to by that node is ignored. If the reference count is one, walking continues down into that node or leaf, and the references of everything it points to are decremented. The old code would try to work in small pieces, walking down the tree until it found the lowest leaf or node to free and then returning. This was very friendly to the rest of the FS because it didn't have a huge impact on other operations. But it wouldn't always keep up with the rate that new commits added new snapshots for deletion, and it wasn't very optimal for the extent allocation tree because it wasn't finding leaves that were close together on disk and processing them at the same time. This changes things to walk down to a level 1 node and then process it in bulk. All the leaf pointers are sorted and the leaves are dropped in order based on their extent number. The extent allocation tree and commit code are now fast enough for this kind of bulk processing to work without slowing the rest of the FS down. Overall it does less IO and is better able to keep up with snapshot deletions under high load. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-29Btrfs: add and improve commentsChris Mason
This improves the comments at the top of many functions. It didn't dive into the guts of functions because I was trying to avoid merging problems with the new allocator and back reference work. extent-tree.c and volumes.c were both skipped, and there is definitely more work todo in cleaning and commenting the code. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-26Btrfs: Add shared reference cacheZheng Yan
Btrfs has a cache of reference counts in leaves, allowing it to avoid reading tree leaves while deleting snapshots. To reduce contention with multiple subvolumes, this cache is private to each subvolume. This patch adds shared reference cache support. The new space balancing code plays with multiple subvols at the same time, So the old per-subvol reference cache is not well suited. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: implement memory reclaim for leaf reference cacheYan
The memory reclaiming issue happens when snapshot exists. In that case, some cache entries may not be used during old snapshot dropping, so they will remain in the cache until umount. The patch adds a field to struct btrfs_leaf_ref to record create time. Besides, the patch makes all dead roots of a given snapshot linked together in order of create time. After a old snapshot was completely dropped, we check the dead root list and remove all cache entries created before the oldest dead root in the list. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: Leaf reference cache updateChris Mason
This changes the reference cache to make a single cache per root instead of one cache per transaction, and to key by the byte number of the disk block instead of the keys inside. This makes it much less likely to have cache misses if a snapshot or something has an extra reference on a higher node or a leaf while the first transaction that added the leaf into the cache is dropping. Some throttling is added to functions that free blocks heavily so they wait for old transactions to drop. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: Add a leaf reference cacheYan Zheng
Much of the IO done while dropping snapshots is done looking up leaves in the filesystem trees to see if they point to any extents and to drop the references on any extents found. This creates a cache so that IO isn't required. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>