Btrfs: try to keep a healthy ratio of metadata vs data block groups

This patch makes the chunk allocator keep a good ratio of metadata vs data
block groups.  By default for every 8 data block groups, we'll allocate 1
metadata chunk, or about 12% of the disk will be allocated for metadata.  This
can be changed by specifying the metadata_ratio mount option.

This is simply the number of data block groups that have to be allocated to
force a metadata chunk allocation.  By making sure we allocate metadata chunks
more often, we are less likely to get into situations where the whole disk
has been allocated as data block groups.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index 178df4c67de..2895a837323 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -1918,15 +1918,29 @@ void btrfs_delalloc_free_space(struct btrfs_root *root, struct inode *inode,
 	spin_unlock(&info->lock);
 }
 
+static void force_metadata_allocation(struct btrfs_fs_info *info)
+{
+	struct list_head *head = &info->space_info;
+	struct btrfs_space_info *found;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	list_for_each_entry_rcu(found, head, list) {
+		if (found->flags & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_METADATA)
+			found->force_alloc = 1;
+	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
 static int do_chunk_alloc(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 			  struct btrfs_root *extent_root, u64 alloc_bytes,
 			  u64 flags, int force)
 {
 	struct btrfs_space_info *space_info;
+	struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = extent_root->fs_info;
 	u64 thresh;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	mutex_lock(&extent_root->fs_info->chunk_mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
 
 	flags = btrfs_reduce_alloc_profile(extent_root, flags);
 
@@ -1958,6 +1972,18 @@ static int do_chunk_alloc(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
 
+	/*
+	 * if we're doing a data chunk, go ahead and make sure that
+	 * we keep a reasonable number of metadata chunks allocated in the
+	 * FS as well.
+	 */
+	if (flags & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DATA) {
+		fs_info->data_chunk_allocations++;
+		if (!(fs_info->data_chunk_allocations %
+		      fs_info->metadata_ratio))
+			force_metadata_allocation(fs_info);
+	}
+
 	ret = btrfs_alloc_chunk(trans, extent_root, flags);
 	if (ret)
 		space_info->full = 1;