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2009-09-23Btrfs: fix releasepage to avoid unlocking extents we haven't lockedChris Mason
During releasepage, we try to drop any extent_state structs for the bye offsets of the page we're releaseing. But the code was incorrectly telling clear_extent_bit to delete the state struct unconditionallly. Normally this would be fine because we have the page locked, but other parts of btrfs will lock down an entire extent, the most common place being IO completion. releasepage was deleting the extent state without first locking the extent, which may result in removing a state struct that another process had locked down. The fix here is to leave the NODATASUM and EXTENT_LOCKED bits alone in releasepage. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-23Btrfs: Fix test_range_bit for whole file extentsChris Mason
If test_range_bit finds an extent that goes all the way to (u64)-1, it can incorrectly wrap the u64 instead of treaing it like the end of the address space. This just adds a check for the highest possible offset so we don't wrap. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-23Btrfs: fix errors handling cached state in set/clear_extent_bitChris Mason
Both set and clear_extent_bit allow passing a cached state struct to reduce rbtree search times. clear_extent_bit was improperly bypassing some of the checks around making sure the extent state fields were correct for a given operation. The fix used here (from Yan Zheng) is to use the hit_next goto target instead of jumping all the way down to start clearing bits without making sure the cached state was exactly correct for the operation we were doing. This also fixes up the setting of the start variable for both ops in the case where we find an overlapping extent that begins before the range we want to change. In both cases we were incorrectly going backwards from the original requested change. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-18Btrfs: properly honor wbc->nr_to_write changesChris Mason
When btrfs fills a delayed allocation, it tries to increase the wbc nr_to_write to cover a big part of allocation. The theory is that we're doing contiguous IO and writing a few more blocks will save seeks overall at a very low cost. The problem is that extent_write_cache_pages could ignore the new higher nr_to_write if nr_to_write had already gone down to zero. We fix that by rechecking the nr_to_write for every page that is processed in the pagevec. This updates the math around bumping the nr_to_write value to make sure we don't leave a tiny amount of IO hanging around for the very end of a new extent. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: Use PagePrivate2 to track pages in the data=ordered code.Chris Mason
Btrfs writes go through delalloc to the data=ordered code. This makes sure that all of the data is on disk before the metadata that references it. The tracking means that we have to make sure each page in an extent is fully written before we add that extent into the on-disk btree. This was done in the past by setting the EXTENT_ORDERED bit for the range of an extent when it was added to the data=ordered code, and then clearing the EXTENT_ORDERED bit in the extent state tree as each page finished IO. One of the reasons we had to do this was because sometimes pages are magically dirtied without page_mkwrite being called. The EXTENT_ORDERED bit is checked at writepage time, and if it isn't there, our page become dirty without going through the proper path. These bit operations make for a number of rbtree searches for each page, and can cause considerable lock contention. This commit switches from the EXTENT_ORDERED bit to use PagePrivate2. As pages go into the ordered code, PagePrivate2 is set on each one. This is a cheap operation because we already have all the pages locked and ready to go. As IO finishes, the PagePrivate2 bit is cleared and the ordered accoutning is updated for each page. At writepage time, if the PagePrivate2 bit is missing, we go into the writepage fixup code to handle improperly dirtied pages. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: use a cached state for extent state operations during delallocChris Mason
This changes the btrfs code to find delalloc ranges in the extent state tree to use the new state caching code from set/test bit. It reduces one of the biggest causes of rbtree searches in the writeback path. test_range_bit is also modified to take the cached state as a starting point while searching. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: don't lock bits in the extent tree during writepageChris Mason
At writepage time, we have the page locked and we have the extent_map entry for this extent pinned in the extent_map tree. So, the page can't go away and its mapping can't change. There is no need for the extra extent_state lock bits during writepage. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: cache values for locking extentsChris Mason
Many of the btrfs extent state tree users follow the same pattern. They lock an extent range in the tree, do some operation and then unlock. This translates to at least 2 rbtree searches, and maybe more if they are doing operations on the extent state tree. A locked extent in the tree isn't going to be merged or changed, and so we can safely return the extent state structure as a cached handle. This changes set_extent_bit to give back a cached handle, and also changes both set_extent_bit and clear_extent_bit to use the cached handle if it is available. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: reduce CPU usage in the extent_state treeChris Mason
Btrfs is currently mirroring some of the page state bits into its extent state tree. The goal behind this was to use it in supporting blocksizes other than the page size. But, we don't currently support that, and we're using quite a lot of CPU on the rb tree and its spin lock. This commit starts a series of cleanups to reduce the amount of work done in the extent state tree as part of each IO. This commit: * Adds the ability to lock an extent in the state tree and also set other bits. The idea is to do locking and delalloc in one call * Removes the EXTENT_WRITEBACK and EXTENT_DIRTY bits. Btrfs is using a combination of the page bits and the ordered write code for this instead. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: Fix new state initialization orderChris Mason
As the extent state tree is manipulated, there are call backs that are used to take extra actions when different state bits are set or cleared. One example of this is a counter for the total number of delayed allocation bytes in a single inode and in the whole FS. When new states are inserted, this callback is being done before we properly setup the new state. This hasn't caused problems before because the lock bit was always done first, and the existing call backs don't care about the lock bit. This patch makes sure the state is properly setup before using the callback, which is important for later optimizations that do more work without using the lock bit. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: switch extent_map to a rw lockChris Mason
There are two main users of the extent_map tree. The first is regular file inodes, where it is evenly spread between readers and writers. The second is the chunk allocation tree, which maps blocks from logical addresses to phyiscal ones, and it is 99.99% reads. The mapping tree is a point of lock contention during heavy IO workloads, so this commit switches things to a rw lock. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: use larger nr_to_write for larger extentsChris Mason
When btrfs fills a large delayed allocation extent, it is a good idea to try and convince the write_cache_pages caller to go ahead and write a good chunk of that extent. The extra IO is basically free because we know it is contiguous. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: optimize set extent bitChris Mason
The Btrfs set_extent_bit call currently searches the rbtree every time it needs to find more extent_state objects to fill the requested operation. This adds a simple test with rb_next to see if the next object in the tree was adjacent to the one we just found. If so, we skip the search and just use the next object. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-06-10btrfs: Fix set/clear_extent_bit for 'end == (u64)-1'Yan Zheng
There are some 'start = state->end + 1;' like code in set_extent_bit and clear_extent_bit. They overflow when end == (u64)-1. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-27Btrfs: remove #if 0 codeChris Mason
Btrfs had some old code sitting around under #if 0, this drops it. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-24Btrfs: kill btrfs_cache_createChristoph Hellwig
Just use kmem_cache_create directly. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-20Btrfs: fix oops on page->mapping->host during writepageChris Mason
The extent_io writepage call updates the writepage index in the inode as it makes progress. But, it was doing the update after unlocking the page, which isn't legal because page->mapping can't be trusted once the page is unlocked. This lead to an oops, especially common with compression turned on. The fix here is to update the writeback index before unlocking the page. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-20Btrfs: add a priority queue to the async thread helpersChris Mason
Btrfs is using WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to send down synchronous IOs with a higher priority. But, the checksumming helper threads prevent it from being fully effective. There are two problems. First, a big queue of pending checksumming will delay the synchronous IO behind other lower priority writes. Second, the checksumming uses an ordered async work queue. The ordering makes sure that IOs are sent to the block layer in the same order they are sent to the checksumming threads. Usually this gives us less seeky IO. But, when we start mixing IO priorities, the lower priority IO can delay the higher priority IO. This patch solves both problems by adding a high priority list to the async helper threads, and a new btrfs_set_work_high_prio(), which is used to make put a new async work item onto the higher priority list. The ordering is still done on high priority IO, but all of the high priority bios are ordered separately from the low priority bios. This ordering is purely an IO optimization, it is not involved in data or metadata integrity. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-20Btrfs: use WRITE_SYNC for synchronous writesChris Mason
Part of reducing fsync/O_SYNC/O_DIRECT latencies is using WRITE_SYNC for writes we plan on waiting on in the near future. This patch mirrors recent changes in other filesystems and the generic code to use WRITE_SYNC when WB_SYNC_ALL is passed and to use WRITE_SYNC for other latency critical writes. Btrfs uses async worker threads for checksumming before the write is done, and then again to actually submit the bios. The bio submission code just runs a per-device list of bios that need to be sent down the pipe. This list is split into low priority and high priority lists so the WRITE_SYNC IO happens first. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-03Btrfs: fix __ucmpdi2 compile bug on 32 bit buildsHeiko Carstens
We get this on 32 builds: fs/built-in.o: In function `extent_fiemap': (.text+0x1019f2): undefined reference to `__ucmpdi2' Happens because of a switch statement with a 64 bit argument. Convert this to an if statement to fix this. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-03-24Btrfs: leave btree locks spinning more oftenChris Mason
btrfs_mark_buffer dirty would set dirty bits in the extent_io tree for the buffers it was dirtying. This may require a kmalloc and it was not atomic. So, anyone who called btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty had to set any btree locks they were holding to blocking first. This commit changes dirty tracking for extent buffers to just use a flag in the extent buffer. Now that we have one and only one extent buffer per page, this can be safely done without losing dirty bits along the way. This also introduces a path->leave_spinning flag that callers of btrfs_search_slot can use to indicate they will properly deal with a path returned where all the locks are spinning instead of blocking. Many of the btree search callers now expect spinning paths, resulting in better btree concurrency overall. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-02-12Btrfs: remove unused code in split_state()Qinghuang Feng
These two lines are not used, remove them. Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-02-04Btrfs: don't return congestion in write_cache_pages as oftenChris Mason
On fast devices that go from congested to uncongested very quickly, pdflush is waiting too often in congestion_wait, and the FS is backing off to easily in write_cache_pages. For now, fix this on the btrfs side by only checking congestion after some bios have already gone down. Longer term a real fix is needed for pdflush, but that is a larger project. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-02-04Btrfs: Change btree locking to use explicit blocking pointsChris Mason
Most of the btrfs metadata operations can be protected by a spinlock, but some operations still need to schedule. So far, btrfs has been using a mutex along with a trylock loop, most of the time it is able to avoid going for the full mutex, so the trylock loop is a big performance gain. This commit is step one for getting rid of the blocking locks entirely. btrfs_tree_lock takes a spinlock, and the code explicitly switches to a blocking lock when it starts an operation that can schedule. We'll be able get rid of the blocking locks in smaller pieces over time. Tracing allows us to find the most common cause of blocking, so we can start with the hot spots first. The basic idea is: btrfs_tree_lock() returns with the spin lock held btrfs_set_lock_blocking() sets the EXTENT_BUFFER_BLOCKING bit in the extent buffer flags, and then drops the spin lock. The buffer is still considered locked by all of the btrfs code. If btrfs_tree_lock gets the spinlock but finds the blocking bit set, it drops the spin lock and waits on a wait queue for the blocking bit to go away. Much of the code that needs to set the blocking bit finishes without actually blocking a good percentage of the time. So, an adaptive spin is still used against the blocking bit to avoid very high context switch rates. btrfs_clear_lock_blocking() clears the blocking bit and returns with the spinlock held again. btrfs_tree_unlock() can be called on either blocking or spinning locks, it does the right thing based on the blocking bit. ctree.c has a helper function to set/clear all the locked buffers in a path as blocking. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-02-04Btrfs: disable leak debugging checks in extent_io.cChris Mason
extent_io.c has debugging code to report and free leaked extent_state and extent_buffer objects at rmmod time. This helps track down leaks and it saves you from rebooting just to properly remove the kmem_cache object. But, the code runs under a fairly expensive spinlock and the checks to see if it is currently enabled are not entirely consistent. Some use #ifdef and some #if. This changes everything to #if and disables the leak checking. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-21Btrfs: fiemap supportYehuda Sadeh
Now that bmap support is gone, this is the only way to get extent mappings for userland. These are still not valid for IO, but they can tell us if a file has holes or how much fragmentation there is. Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
2009-01-21Btrfs: removed unused #include <version.h>'sHuang Weiyi
Removed unused #include <version.h>'s in btrfs Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-05Btrfs: drop EXPORT symbols from extent_io.cChris Mason
They should stay out until this is turned into generic code. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-05Btrfs: Fix checkpatch.pl warningsChris Mason
There were many, most are fixed now. struct-funcs.c generates some warnings but these are bogus. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-05Btrfs: Fix typo in clear_state_cbLiu Hui
In clear_state_cb, we should check 'tree->ops->clear_bit_hook' instead of 'tree->ops->set_bit_hook'. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-17Btrfs: shift all end_io work to thread poolsChris Mason
bio_end_io for reads without checksumming on and btree writes were happening without using async thread pools. This means the extent_io.c code had to use spin_lock_irq and friends on the rb tree locks for extent state. There were some irq safe vs unsafe lock inversions between the delallock lock and the extent state locks. This patch gets rid of them by moving all end_io code into the thread pools. To avoid contention and deadlocks between the data end_io processing and the metadata end_io processing yet another thread pool is added to finish off metadata writes. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-08Btrfs: Use map_private_extent_buffer during generic_bin_searchChris Mason
It is possible that generic_bin_search will be called on a tree block that has not been locked. This happens because cache_block_block skips locking on the tree blocks. Since the tree block isn't locked, we aren't allowed to change the extent_buffer->map_token field. Using map_private_extent_buffer avoids any changes to the internal extent buffer fields. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-08Btrfs: move data checksumming into a dedicated treeChris Mason
Btrfs stores checksums for each data block. Until now, they have been stored in the subvolume trees, indexed by the inode that is referencing the data block. This means that when we read the inode, we've probably read in at least some checksums as well. But, this has a few problems: * The checksums are indexed by logical offset in the file. When compression is on, this means we have to do the expensive checksumming on the uncompressed data. It would be faster if we could checksum the compressed data instead. * If we implement encryption, we'll be checksumming the plain text and storing that on disk. This is significantly less secure. * For either compression or encryption, we have to get the plain text back before we can verify the checksum as correct. This makes the raid layer balancing and extent moving much more expensive. * It makes the front end caching code more complex, as we have touch the subvolume and inodes as we cache extents. * There is potentitally one copy of the checksum in each subvolume referencing an extent. The solution used here is to store the extent checksums in a dedicated tree. This allows us to index the checksums by phyiscal extent start and length. It means: * The checksum is against the data stored on disk, after any compression or encryption is done. * The checksum is stored in a central location, and can be verified without following back references, or reading inodes. This makes compression significantly faster by reducing the amount of data that needs to be checksummed. It will also allow much faster raid management code in general. The checksums are indexed by a key with a fixed objectid (a magic value in ctree.h) and offset set to the starting byte of the extent. This allows us to copy the checksum items into the fsync log tree directly (or any other tree), without having to invent a second format for them. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-12-02Btrfs: make things static and include the right headersChristoph Hellwig
Shut up various sparse warnings about symbols that should be either static or have their declarations in scope. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2008-12-02Btrfs: sparse lock verification annotations for wait_on_stateChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-20Btrfs: only flush down bios for writeback pagesChris Mason
The btrfs write_cache_pages call has a flush function so that it submits the bio it has been building before it waits on any writeback pages. This adds a check so that flush only happens on writeback pages. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-19Btrfs: Fixes for 2.6.28-rc API changesChris Mason
* open/close_bdev_excl -> open/close_bdev_exclusive * blkdev_issue_discard takes a GFP mask now * Fix blkdev_issue_discard usage now that it is enabled Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-19Btrfs: Avoid writeback stallsChris Mason
While building large bios in writepages, btrfs may end up waiting for other page writeback to finish if WB_SYNC_ALL is used. While it is waiting, the bio it is building has a number of pages with the writeback bit set and they aren't getting to the disk any time soon. This lowers the latencies of writeback in general by sending down the bio being built before waiting for other pages. The bio submission code tries to limit the total number of async bios in flight by waiting when we're over a certain number of async bios. But, the waits are happening while writepages is building bios, and this can easily lead to stalls and other problems for people calling wait_on_page_writeback. The current fix is to let the congestion tests take care of waiting. sync() and others make sure to drain the current async requests to make sure that everything that was pending when the sync was started really get to disk. The code would drain pending requests both before and after submitting a new request. But, if one of the requests is waiting for page writeback to finish, the draining waits might block that page writeback. This changes the draining code to only wait after submitting the bio being processed. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-11Btrfs: Fix compile warnings on 32 bit machinesChris Mason
Simple casting here and there to fix things up. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-10Btrfs: Turn off extent state leak debuggingChris Mason
The extent_io.c code has a #define to find and cleanup extent state leaks on module unmount. This adds a very highly contended spinlock to a hot path for most FS operations. Turn it off by default. A later changeset will add a .config option for it. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-10Btrfs: Use invalidatepage when writepage finds a page outside of i_sizeChris Mason
With all the recent fixes to the delalloc locking, it is now safe again to use invalidatepage inside the writepage code for pages outside of i_size. This used to deadlock against some of the code to write locked ranges of pages, but all of that has been fixed. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-10Btrfs: Make sure pages are dirty before doing delalloc for themChris Mason
This adds a PageDirty check to the writeback path that locks pages for delalloc. If a page wasn't dirty at this point, it is in the process of being truncated away. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-06Btrfs: enforce metadata allocation clusteringChris Mason
The allocator uses the last allocation as a starting point for metadata allocations, and tries to allocate in clusters of at least 256k. If the search for a free block fails to find the expected block, this patch forces a new cluster to be found in the free list. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-06Btrfs: Optimize compressed writeback and readsChris Mason
When reading compressed extents, try to put pages into the page cache for any pages covered by the compressed extent that readpages didn't already preload. Add an async work queue to handle transformations at delayed allocation processing time. Right now this is just compression. The workflow is: 1) Find offsets in the file marked for delayed allocation 2) Lock the pages 3) Lock the state bits 4) Call the async delalloc code The async delalloc code clears the state lock bits and delalloc bits. It is important this happens before the range goes into the work queue because otherwise it might deadlock with other work queue items that try to lock those extent bits. The file pages are compressed, and if the compression doesn't work the pages are written back directly. An ordered work queue is used to make sure the inodes are written in the same order that pdflush or writepages sent them down. This changes extent_write_cache_pages to let the writepage function update the wbc nr_written count. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-10-31Btrfs: Compression corner fixesChris Mason
Make sure we keep page->mapping NULL on the pages we're getting via alloc_page. It gets set so a few of the callbacks can do the right thing, but in general these pages don't have a mapping. Don't try to truncate compressed inline items in btrfs_drop_extents. The whole compressed item must be preserved. Don't try to create multipage inline compressed items. When we try to overwrite just the first page of the file, we would have to read in and recow all the pages after it in the same compressed inline items. For now, only create single page inline items. Make sure we lock pages in the correct order during delalloc. The search into the state tree for delalloc bytes can return bytes before the page we already have locked. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-10-30Btrfs: Add fallocate support v2Yan Zheng
This patch updates btrfs-progs for fallocate support. fallocate is a little different in Btrfs because we need to tell the COW system that a given preallocated extent doesn't need to be cow'd as long as there are no snapshots of it. This leverages the -o nodatacow checks. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-10-30Btrfs: Fix bookend extent race v2Yan Zheng
When dropping middle part of an extent, btrfs_drop_extents truncates the extent at first, then inserts a bookend extent. Since truncation and insertion can't be done atomically, there is a small period that the bookend extent isn't in the tree. This causes problem for functions that search the tree for file extent item. The way to fix this is lock the range of the bookend extent before truncation. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-10-29Btrfs: nuke fs wide allocation mutex V2Josef Bacik
This patch removes the giant fs_info->alloc_mutex and replaces it with a bunch of little locks. There is now a pinned_mutex, which is used when messing with the pinned_extents extent io tree, and the extent_ins_mutex which is used with the pending_del and extent_ins extent io trees. The locking for the extent tree stuff was inspired by a patch that Yan Zheng wrote to fix a race condition, I cleaned it up some and changed the locking around a little bit, but the idea remains the same. Basically instead of holding the extent_ins_mutex throughout the processing of an extent on the extent_ins or pending_del trees, we just hold it while we're searching and when we clear the bits on those trees, and lock the extent for the duration of the operations on the extent. Also to keep from getting hung up waiting to lock an extent, I've added a try_lock_extent so if we cannot lock the extent, move on to the next one in the tree and we'll come back to that one. I have tested this heavily and it does not appear to break anything. This has to be applied on top of my find_free_extent redo patch. I tested this patch on top of Yan's space reblancing code and it worked fine. The only thing that has changed since the last version is I pulled out all my debugging stuff, apparently I forgot to run guilt refresh before I sent the last patch out. Thank you, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
2008-10-29Btrfs: Add zlib compression supportChris Mason
This is a large change for adding compression on reading and writing, both for inline and regular extents. It does some fairly large surgery to the writeback paths. Compression is off by default and enabled by mount -o compress. Even when the -o compress mount option is not used, it is possible to read compressed extents off the disk. If compression for a given set of pages fails to make them smaller, the file is flagged to avoid future compression attempts later. * While finding delalloc extents, the pages are locked before being sent down to the delalloc handler. This allows the delalloc handler to do complex things such as cleaning the pages, marking them writeback and starting IO on their behalf. * Inline extents are inserted at delalloc time now. This allows us to compress the data before inserting the inline extent, and it allows us to insert an inline extent that spans multiple pages. * All of the in-memory extent representations (extent_map.c, ordered-data.c etc) are changed to record both an in-memory size and an on disk size, as well as a flag for compression. From a disk format point of view, the extent pointers in the file are changed to record the on disk size of a given extent and some encoding flags. Space in the disk format is allocated for compression encoding, as well as encryption and a generic 'other' field. Neither the encryption or the 'other' field are currently used. In order to limit the amount of data read for a single random read in the file, the size of a compressed extent is limited to 128k. This is a software only limit, the disk format supports u64 sized compressed extents. In order to limit the ram consumed while processing extents, the uncompressed size of a compressed extent is limited to 256k. This is a software only limit and will be subject to tuning later. Checksumming is still done on compressed extents, and it is done on the uncompressed version of the data. This way additional encodings can be layered on without having to figure out which encoding to checksum. Compression happens at delalloc time, which is basically singled threaded because it is usually done by a single pdflush thread. This makes it tricky to spread the compression load across all the cpus on the box. We'll have to look at parallel pdflush walks of dirty inodes at a later time. Decompression is hooked into readpages and it does spread across CPUs nicely. 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>