Btrfs: reclaim the reserved metadata space at background

Before applying this patch, the task had to reclaim the metadata space
by itself if the metadata space was not enough. And When the task started
the space reclamation, all the other tasks which wanted to reserve the
metadata space were blocked. At some cases, they would be blocked for
a long time, it made the performance fluctuate wildly.

So we introduce the background metadata space reclamation, when the space
is about to be exhausted, we insert a reclaim work into the workqueue, the
worker of the workqueue helps us to reclaim the reserved space at the
background. By this way, the tasks needn't reclaim the space by themselves at
most cases, and even if the tasks have to reclaim the space or are blocked
for the space reclamation, they will get enough space more quickly.

Here is my test result(Tested by compilebench):
 Memory:	2GB
 CPU:		2Cores * 1CPU
 Partition:	40GB(SSD)

Test command:
 # compilebench -D <mnt> -m

Without this patch:
 intial create total runs 30 avg 54.36 MB/s (user 0.52s sys 2.44s)
 compile total runs 30 avg 123.72 MB/s (user 0.13s sys 1.17s)
 read compiled tree total runs 3 avg 81.15 MB/s (user 0.74s sys 4.89s)
 delete compiled tree total runs 30 avg 5.32 seconds (user 0.35s sys 4.37s)

With this patch:
 intial create total runs 30 avg 59.80 MB/s (user 0.52s sys 2.53s)
 compile total runs 30 avg 151.44 MB/s (user 0.13s sys 1.11s)
 read compiled tree total runs 3 avg 83.25 MB/s (user 0.76s sys 4.91s)
 delete compiled tree total runs 30 avg 5.29 seconds (user 0.34s sys 4.34s)

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index f4a439e..0a805b8 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <asm/kmap_types.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/btrfs.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include "extent_io.h"
 #include "extent_map.h"
 #include "async-thread.h"
@@ -1322,6 +1323,8 @@ struct btrfs_stripe_hash_table {
 
 #define BTRFS_STRIPE_HASH_TABLE_BITS 11
 
+void btrfs_init_async_reclaim_work(struct work_struct *work);
+
 /* fs_info */
 struct reloc_control;
 struct btrfs_device;
@@ -1697,6 +1700,9 @@ struct btrfs_fs_info {
 
 	struct semaphore uuid_tree_rescan_sem;
 	unsigned int update_uuid_tree_gen:1;
+
+	/* Used to reclaim the metadata space in the background. */
+	struct work_struct async_reclaim_work;
 };
 
 struct btrfs_subvolume_writers {