This patchset can be fetched from github:
https://github.com/adam900710/linux/tree/qgroup_balance_skip_trees
The base commit is v4.19-rc1 tag.
There are a lot of reports of system hang for balance on quota enabled
fs.
It's most obvious for large fs.
The hang is caused by tons of unmodified extents marked as qgroup dirty.
One of the unmodified extent source is tree blocks.
(BTW, other sources includes unmodified file extent items, and tree
reloc tree drop subtree)
E.g.
OO = Old tree blocks from file tree
NN = New tree blocks from tree reloc tree
file tree tree reloc tree
OO (a) NN (a)
/ \ / \
(b) OO OO (c) (b) NN NN (c)
/ \ / \ / \ / \
OO OO OO OO OO OO OO NN
(d) (e) (f) (g) (d) (e) (f) (g)
In above case, balance will modify nodeptr in OO(a) to point NN(b) and
NN(c), and modify NN(a) to point to OO(B) and OO(c).
Before this patch, quota will mark the whole subtree from its parent
down to the leaves as dirty.
So btrfs quota need to trace all tree block from (a) to (g).
However tree blocks (d) (e) (f) are shared between both trees, thus
there is no need to trace those 3 tree blocks.
This patchset will change how this work by only tracing modified tree
blocks in tree reloc tree, and their counter parts in file tree.
Nodeptr swap will happen for tree blocks (b) and (c) in both tree.
For tree block (b), in tree reloc tree we could find that all its
children's generation is smaller than last_snapshot, thus no need to
trace them, only need to trace NN(b), and its counter part OO(b).
For tree block (c), in tree reloc tree, we find its child NN(g) need
tracing, and for tree block NN(g), there is no child need to trace.
So for subtree starting at tree block NN(c), we need to trace NN(c) and
NN(g), along with its counter part OO(c) and OO(c).
With this patch, we could skip tree blocks OO(d)~OO(f) in above example,
thus reduce some some overhead caused by qgroup.
The improvement is mostly related to metadata relocation.
If there is some high level tree blocks get relocated but its children are
still unmodified, we could save a lot of time.
Even for the worst case, it should be no worse than original full
subtree marking method.
Qu Wenruo (4):
btrfs: qgroup: Introduce trace event to analyse the number of dirty
extents accounted
btrfs: qgroup: Introduce function to trace two swaped extents
btrfs: qgroup: Introduce function to find all new tree blocks of tree
reloc tree
btrfs: qgroup: Use generation aware subtree swap to mark dirty extents
fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 327 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/btrfs/qgroup.h | 10 ++
fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 11 +-
include/trace/events/btrfs.h | 21 +++
4 files changed, 361 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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2.18.0
