Btrfs: allocate the free space by the existed max extent size when ENOSPC

By the current code, if the requested size is very large, and all the extents
in the free space cache are small, we will waste lots of the cpu time to cut
the requested size in half and search the cache again and again until it gets
down to the size the allocator can return. In fact, we can know the max extent
size in the cache after the first search, so we needn't cut the size in half
repeatedly, and just use the max extent size directly. This way can save
lots of cpu time and make the performance grow up when there are only fragments
in the free space cache.

According to my test, if there are only 4KB free space extents in the fs,
and the total size of those extents are 256MB, we can reduce the execute
time of the following test from 5.4s to 1.4s.
  dd if=/dev/zero of=<testfile> bs=1MB count=1 oflag=sync

Changelog v2 -> v3:
- fix the problem that we skip the block group with the space which is
  less than we need.

Changelog v1 -> v2:
- address the problem that we return a wrong start position when searching
  the free space in a bitmap.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.h b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.h
index c7490416747..e737f92cf6d 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.h
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ void __btrfs_remove_free_space_cache(struct btrfs_free_space_ctl *ctl);
 void btrfs_remove_free_space_cache(struct btrfs_block_group_cache
 				     *block_group);
 u64 btrfs_find_space_for_alloc(struct btrfs_block_group_cache *block_group,
-			       u64 offset, u64 bytes, u64 empty_size);
+			       u64 offset, u64 bytes, u64 empty_size,
+			       u64 *max_extent_size);
 u64 btrfs_find_ino_for_alloc(struct btrfs_root *fs_root);
 void btrfs_dump_free_space(struct btrfs_block_group_cache *block_group,
 			   u64 bytes);
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ int btrfs_find_space_cluster(struct btrfs_root *root,
 void btrfs_init_free_cluster(struct btrfs_free_cluster *cluster);
 u64 btrfs_alloc_from_cluster(struct btrfs_block_group_cache *block_group,
 			     struct btrfs_free_cluster *cluster, u64 bytes,
-			     u64 min_start);
+			     u64 min_start, u64 *max_extent_size);
 int btrfs_return_cluster_to_free_space(
 			       struct btrfs_block_group_cache *block_group,
 			       struct btrfs_free_cluster *cluster);