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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/btrfs/Makefile, branch v3.2.3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.jan-o-sch.net/btrfs-unstable into integration</title>
<updated>2011-11-06T08:07:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Mason</name>
<email>chris.mason@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-06T08:07:10+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/Makefile
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.h
	fs/btrfs/scrub.c

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/Makefile
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.h
	fs/btrfs/scrub.c

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: initial readahead code and prototypes</title>
<updated>2011-10-02T06:48:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arne Jansen</name>
<email>sensille@gmx.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T12:33:49+00:00</published>
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This is the implementation for the generic read ahead framework.

To trigger a readahead, btrfs_reada_add must be called. It will start
a read ahead for the given range [start, end) on tree root. The returned
handle can either be used to wait on the readahead to finish
(btrfs_reada_wait), or to send it to the background (btrfs_reada_detach).

The read ahead works as follows:
On btrfs_reada_add, the root of the tree is inserted into a radix_tree.
reada_start_machine will then search for extents to prefetch and trigger
some reads. When a read finishes for a node, all contained node/leaf
pointers that lie in the given range will also be enqueued. The reads will
be triggered in sequential order, thus giving a big win over a naive
enumeration. It will also make use of multi-device layouts. Each disk
will have its on read pointer and all disks will by utilized in parallel.
Also will no two disks read both sides of a mirror simultaneously, as this
would waste seeking capacity. Instead both disks will read different parts
of the filesystem.
Any number of readaheads can be started in parallel. The read order will be
determined globally, i.e. 2 parallel readaheads will normally finish faster
than the 2 started one after another.

Changes v2:
 - protect root-&gt;node by transaction instead of node_lock
 - fix missed branches:
    The readahead had a too simple check to determine if a branch from
    a node should be checked or not. It now also records the upper bound
    of each node to see if the requested RA range lies within.
 - use KERN_CONT to debug output, to avoid line breaks
 - defer reada_start_machine to worker to avoid deadlock

Changes v3:
 - protect root-&gt;node by rcu

Changes v5:
 - changed EIO-semantics of reada_tree_block_flagged
 - remove spin_lock from reada_control and make elems an atomic_t
 - remove unused read_total from reada_control
 - kill reada_key_cmp, use btrfs_comp_cpu_keys instead
 - use kref-style release functions where possible
 - return struct reada_control * instead of void * from btrfs_reada_add

Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen &lt;sensille@gmx.net&gt;
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This is the implementation for the generic read ahead framework.

To trigger a readahead, btrfs_reada_add must be called. It will start
a read ahead for the given range [start, end) on tree root. The returned
handle can either be used to wait on the readahead to finish
(btrfs_reada_wait), or to send it to the background (btrfs_reada_detach).

The read ahead works as follows:
On btrfs_reada_add, the root of the tree is inserted into a radix_tree.
reada_start_machine will then search for extents to prefetch and trigger
some reads. When a read finishes for a node, all contained node/leaf
pointers that lie in the given range will also be enqueued. The reads will
be triggered in sequential order, thus giving a big win over a naive
enumeration. It will also make use of multi-device layouts. Each disk
will have its on read pointer and all disks will by utilized in parallel.
Also will no two disks read both sides of a mirror simultaneously, as this
would waste seeking capacity. Instead both disks will read different parts
of the filesystem.
Any number of readaheads can be started in parallel. The read order will be
determined globally, i.e. 2 parallel readaheads will normally finish faster
than the 2 started one after another.

Changes v2:
 - protect root-&gt;node by transaction instead of node_lock
 - fix missed branches:
    The readahead had a too simple check to determine if a branch from
    a node should be checked or not. It now also records the upper bound
    of each node to see if the requested RA range lies within.
 - use KERN_CONT to debug output, to avoid line breaks
 - defer reada_start_machine to worker to avoid deadlock

Changes v3:
 - protect root-&gt;node by rcu

Changes v5:
 - changed EIO-semantics of reada_tree_block_flagged
 - remove spin_lock from reada_control and make elems an atomic_t
 - remove unused read_total from reada_control
 - kill reada_key_cmp, use btrfs_comp_cpu_keys instead
 - use kref-style release functions where possible
 - return struct reada_control * instead of void * from btrfs_reada_add

Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen &lt;sensille@gmx.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: added helper functions to iterate backrefs</title>
<updated>2011-09-29T10:54:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Schmidt</name>
<email>list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-13T17:52:59+00:00</published>
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These helper functions iterate back references and call a function for each
backref. There is also a function to resolve an inode to a path in the
file system.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt &lt;list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net&gt;
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These helper functions iterate back references and call a function for each
backref. There is also a function to resolve an inode to a path in the
file system.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt &lt;list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Btrfs: make acl functions really no-op if acl is not enabled</title>
<updated>2011-08-01T18:30:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-14T03:17:39+00:00</published>
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So there's no overhead for something we don't use.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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So there's no overhead for something we don't use.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-chris' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arne/btrfs-unstable-arne into inode_numbers</title>
<updated>2011-05-23T10:30:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Mason</name>
<email>chris.mason@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T10:30:52+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/Makefile
	fs/btrfs/ctree.h
	fs/btrfs/volumes.h

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/Makefile
	fs/btrfs/ctree.h
	fs/btrfs/volumes.h

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: implement delayed inode items operation</title>
<updated>2011-05-21T13:30:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miao Xie</name>
<email>miaox@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-22T10:12:22+00:00</published>
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Changelog V5 -&gt; V6:
- Fix oom when the memory load is high, by storing the delayed nodes into the
  root's radix tree, and letting btrfs inodes go.

Changelog V4 -&gt; V5:
- Fix the race on adding the delayed node to the inode, which is spotted by
  Chris Mason.
- Merge Chris Mason's incremental patch into this patch.
- Fix deadlock between readdir() and memory fault, which is reported by
  Itaru Kitayama.

Changelog V3 -&gt; V4:
- Fix nested lock, which is reported by Itaru Kitayama, by updating space cache
  inode in time.

Changelog V2 -&gt; V3:
- Fix the race between the delayed worker and the task which does delayed items
  balance, which is reported by Tsutomu Itoh.
- Modify the patch address David Sterba's comment.
- Fix the bug of the cpu recursion spinlock, reported by Chris Mason

Changelog V1 -&gt; V2:
- break up the global rb-tree, use a list to manage the delayed nodes,
  which is created for every directory and file, and used to manage the
  delayed directory name index items and the delayed inode item.
- introduce a worker to deal with the delayed nodes.

Compare with Ext3/4, the performance of file creation and deletion on btrfs
is very poor. the reason is that btrfs must do a lot of b+ tree insertions,
such as inode item, directory name item, directory name index and so on.

If we can do some delayed b+ tree insertion or deletion, we can improve the
performance, so we made this patch which implemented delayed directory name
index insertion/deletion and delayed inode update.

Implementation:
- introduce a delayed root object into the filesystem, that use two lists to
  manage the delayed nodes which are created for every file/directory.
  One is used to manage all the delayed nodes that have delayed items. And the
  other is used to manage the delayed nodes which is waiting to be dealt with
  by the work thread.
- Every delayed node has two rb-tree, one is used to manage the directory name
  index which is going to be inserted into b+ tree, and the other is used to
  manage the directory name index which is going to be deleted from b+ tree.
- introduce a worker to deal with the delayed operation. This worker is used
  to deal with the works of the delayed directory name index items insertion
  and deletion and the delayed inode update.
  When the delayed items is beyond the lower limit, we create works for some
  delayed nodes and insert them into the work queue of the worker, and then
  go back.
  When the delayed items is beyond the upper bound, we create works for all
  the delayed nodes that haven't been dealt with, and insert them into the work
  queue of the worker, and then wait for that the untreated items is below some
  threshold value.
- When we want to insert a directory name index into b+ tree, we just add the
  information into the delayed inserting rb-tree.
  And then we check the number of the delayed items and do delayed items
  balance. (The balance policy is above.)
- When we want to delete a directory name index from the b+ tree, we search it
  in the inserting rb-tree at first. If we look it up, just drop it. If not,
  add the key of it into the delayed deleting rb-tree.
  Similar to the delayed inserting rb-tree, we also check the number of the
  delayed items and do delayed items balance.
  (The same to inserting manipulation)
- When we want to update the metadata of some inode, we cached the data of the
  inode into the delayed node. the worker will flush it into the b+ tree after
  dealing with the delayed insertion and deletion.
- We will move the delayed node to the tail of the list after we access the
  delayed node, By this way, we can cache more delayed items and merge more
  inode updates.
- If we want to commit transaction, we will deal with all the delayed node.
- the delayed node will be freed when we free the btrfs inode.
- Before we log the inode items, we commit all the directory name index items
  and the delayed inode update.

I did a quick test by the benchmark tool[1] and found we can improve the
performance of file creation by ~15%, and file deletion by ~20%.

Before applying this patch:
Create files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.096108
        Average time: 0.000022
Delete files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.510403
        Average time: 0.000030

After applying this patch:
Create files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 0.932899
        Average time: 0.000019
Delete files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.215732
        Average time: 0.000024

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&amp;m=128212635122920&amp;q=p3

Many thanks for Kitayama-san's help!

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Sterba &lt;dave@jikos.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Tsutomu Itoh &lt;t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Tested-by: Itaru Kitayama &lt;kitayama@cl.bb4u.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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Changelog V5 -&gt; V6:
- Fix oom when the memory load is high, by storing the delayed nodes into the
  root's radix tree, and letting btrfs inodes go.

Changelog V4 -&gt; V5:
- Fix the race on adding the delayed node to the inode, which is spotted by
  Chris Mason.
- Merge Chris Mason's incremental patch into this patch.
- Fix deadlock between readdir() and memory fault, which is reported by
  Itaru Kitayama.

Changelog V3 -&gt; V4:
- Fix nested lock, which is reported by Itaru Kitayama, by updating space cache
  inode in time.

Changelog V2 -&gt; V3:
- Fix the race between the delayed worker and the task which does delayed items
  balance, which is reported by Tsutomu Itoh.
- Modify the patch address David Sterba's comment.
- Fix the bug of the cpu recursion spinlock, reported by Chris Mason

Changelog V1 -&gt; V2:
- break up the global rb-tree, use a list to manage the delayed nodes,
  which is created for every directory and file, and used to manage the
  delayed directory name index items and the delayed inode item.
- introduce a worker to deal with the delayed nodes.

Compare with Ext3/4, the performance of file creation and deletion on btrfs
is very poor. the reason is that btrfs must do a lot of b+ tree insertions,
such as inode item, directory name item, directory name index and so on.

If we can do some delayed b+ tree insertion or deletion, we can improve the
performance, so we made this patch which implemented delayed directory name
index insertion/deletion and delayed inode update.

Implementation:
- introduce a delayed root object into the filesystem, that use two lists to
  manage the delayed nodes which are created for every file/directory.
  One is used to manage all the delayed nodes that have delayed items. And the
  other is used to manage the delayed nodes which is waiting to be dealt with
  by the work thread.
- Every delayed node has two rb-tree, one is used to manage the directory name
  index which is going to be inserted into b+ tree, and the other is used to
  manage the directory name index which is going to be deleted from b+ tree.
- introduce a worker to deal with the delayed operation. This worker is used
  to deal with the works of the delayed directory name index items insertion
  and deletion and the delayed inode update.
  When the delayed items is beyond the lower limit, we create works for some
  delayed nodes and insert them into the work queue of the worker, and then
  go back.
  When the delayed items is beyond the upper bound, we create works for all
  the delayed nodes that haven't been dealt with, and insert them into the work
  queue of the worker, and then wait for that the untreated items is below some
  threshold value.
- When we want to insert a directory name index into b+ tree, we just add the
  information into the delayed inserting rb-tree.
  And then we check the number of the delayed items and do delayed items
  balance. (The balance policy is above.)
- When we want to delete a directory name index from the b+ tree, we search it
  in the inserting rb-tree at first. If we look it up, just drop it. If not,
  add the key of it into the delayed deleting rb-tree.
  Similar to the delayed inserting rb-tree, we also check the number of the
  delayed items and do delayed items balance.
  (The same to inserting manipulation)
- When we want to update the metadata of some inode, we cached the data of the
  inode into the delayed node. the worker will flush it into the b+ tree after
  dealing with the delayed insertion and deletion.
- We will move the delayed node to the tail of the list after we access the
  delayed node, By this way, we can cache more delayed items and merge more
  inode updates.
- If we want to commit transaction, we will deal with all the delayed node.
- the delayed node will be freed when we free the btrfs inode.
- Before we log the inode items, we commit all the directory name index items
  and the delayed inode update.

I did a quick test by the benchmark tool[1] and found we can improve the
performance of file creation by ~15%, and file deletion by ~20%.

Before applying this patch:
Create files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.096108
        Average time: 0.000022
Delete files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.510403
        Average time: 0.000030

After applying this patch:
Create files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 0.932899
        Average time: 0.000019
Delete files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.215732
        Average time: 0.000024

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&amp;m=128212635122920&amp;q=p3

Many thanks for Kitayama-san's help!

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Sterba &lt;dave@jikos.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Tsutomu Itoh &lt;t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Tested-by: Itaru Kitayama &lt;kitayama@cl.bb4u.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: scrub</title>
<updated>2011-05-12T12:45:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arne Jansen</name>
<email>sensille@gmx.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-08T13:14:00+00:00</published>
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This adds an initial implementation for scrub. It works quite
straightforward. The usermode issues an ioctl for each device in the
fs. For each device, it enumerates the allocated device chunks. For
each chunk, the contained extents are enumerated and the data checksums
fetched. The extents are read sequentially and the checksums verified.
If an error occurs (checksum or EIO), a good copy is searched for. If
one is found, the bad copy will be rewritten.
All enumerations happen from the commit roots. During a transaction
commit, the scrubs get paused and afterwards continue from the new
roots.

This commit is based on the series originally posted to linux-btrfs
with some improvements that resulted from comments from David Sterba,
Ilya Dryomov and Jan Schmidt.

Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen &lt;sensille@gmx.net&gt;
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This adds an initial implementation for scrub. It works quite
straightforward. The usermode issues an ioctl for each device in the
fs. For each device, it enumerates the allocated device chunks. For
each chunk, the contained extents are enumerated and the data checksums
fetched. The extents are read sequentially and the checksums verified.
If an error occurs (checksum or EIO), a good copy is searched for. If
one is found, the bad copy will be rewritten.
All enumerations happen from the commit roots. During a transaction
commit, the scrubs get paused and afterwards continue from the new
roots.

This commit is based on the series originally posted to linux-btrfs
with some improvements that resulted from comments from David Sterba,
Ilya Dryomov and Jan Schmidt.

Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen &lt;sensille@gmx.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: Add lzo compression support</title>
<updated>2010-12-22T15:15:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-25T07:12:26+00:00</published>
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Lzo is a much faster compression algorithm than gzib, so would allow
more users to enable transparent compression, and some users can
choose from compression ratio and speed for different applications

Usage:

 # mount -t btrfs -o compress[=&lt;zlib,lzo&gt;] dev /mnt
or
 # mount -t btrfs -o compress-force[=&lt;zlib,lzo&gt;] dev /mnt

"-o compress" without argument is still allowed for compatability.

Compatibility:

If we mount a filesystem with lzo compression, it will not be able be
mounted in old kernels. One reason is, otherwise btrfs will directly
dump compressed data, which sits in inline extent, to user.

Performance:

The test copied a linux source tarball (~400M) from an ext4 partition
to the btrfs partition, and then extracted it.

(time in second)
           lzo        zlib        nocompress
copy:      10.6       21.7        14.9
extract:   70.1       94.4        66.6

(data size in MB)
           lzo        zlib        nocompress
copy:      185.87     108.69      394.49
extract:   193.80     132.36      381.21

Changelog:

v1 -&gt; v2:
- Select LZO_COMPRESS and LZO_DECOMPRESS in btrfs Kconfig.
- Add incompability flag.
- Fix error handling in compress code.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
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Lzo is a much faster compression algorithm than gzib, so would allow
more users to enable transparent compression, and some users can
choose from compression ratio and speed for different applications

Usage:

 # mount -t btrfs -o compress[=&lt;zlib,lzo&gt;] dev /mnt
or
 # mount -t btrfs -o compress-force[=&lt;zlib,lzo&gt;] dev /mnt

"-o compress" without argument is still allowed for compatability.

Compatibility:

If we mount a filesystem with lzo compression, it will not be able be
mounted in old kernels. One reason is, otherwise btrfs will directly
dump compressed data, which sits in inline extent, to user.

Performance:

The test copied a linux source tarball (~400M) from an ext4 partition
to the btrfs partition, and then extracted it.

(time in second)
           lzo        zlib        nocompress
copy:      10.6       21.7        14.9
extract:   70.1       94.4        66.6

(data size in MB)
           lzo        zlib        nocompress
copy:      185.87     108.69      394.49
extract:   193.80     132.36      381.21

Changelog:

v1 -&gt; v2:
- Select LZO_COMPRESS and LZO_DECOMPRESS in btrfs Kconfig.
- Add incompability flag.
- Fix error handling in compress code.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Btrfs: Mixed back reference  (FORWARD ROLLING FORMAT CHANGE)</title>
<updated>2009-06-10T15:29:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yan Zheng</name>
<email>zheng.yan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-10T14:45:14+00:00</published>
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This commit introduces a new kind of back reference for btrfs metadata.
Once a filesystem has been mounted with this commit, IT WILL NO LONGER
BE MOUNTABLE BY OLDER KERNELS.

When a tree block in subvolume tree is cow'd, the reference counts of all
extents it points to are increased by one.  At transaction commit time,
the old root of the subvolume is recorded in a "dead root" data structure,
and the btree it points to is later walked, dropping reference counts
and freeing any blocks where the reference count goes to 0.

The increments done during cow and decrements done after commit cancel out,
and the walk is a very expensive way to go about freeing the blocks that
are no longer referenced by the new btree root.  This commit reduces the
transaction overhead by avoiding the need for dead root records.

When a non-shared tree block is cow'd, we free the old block at once, and the
new block inherits old block's references. When a tree block with reference
count &gt; 1 is cow'd, we increase the reference counts of all extents
the new block points to by one, and decrease the old block's reference count by
one.

This dead tree avoidance code removes the need to modify the reference
counts of lower level extents when a non-shared tree block is cow'd.
But we still need to update back ref for all pointers in the block.
This is because the location of the block is recorded in the back ref
item.

We can solve this by introducing a new type of back ref. The new
back ref provides information about pointer's key, level and in which
tree the pointer lives. This information allow us to find the pointer
by searching the tree. The shortcoming of the new back ref is that it
only works for pointers in tree blocks referenced by their owner trees.

This is mostly a problem for snapshots, where resolving one of these
fuzzy back references would be O(number_of_snapshots) and quite slow.
The solution used here is to use the fuzzy back references in the common
case where a given tree block is only referenced by one root,
and use the full back references when multiple roots have a reference
on a given block.

This commit adds per subvolume red-black tree to keep trace of cached
inodes. The red-black tree helps the balancing code to find cached
inodes whose inode numbers within a given range.

This commit improves the balancing code by introducing several data
structures to keep the state of balancing. The most important one
is the back ref cache. It caches how the upper level tree blocks are
referenced. This greatly reduce the overhead of checking back ref.

The improved balancing code scales significantly better with a large
number of snapshots.

This is a very large commit and was written in a number of
pieces.  But, they depend heavily on the disk format change and were
squashed together to make sure git bisect didn't end up in a
bad state wrt space balancing or the format change.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng &lt;zheng.yan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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This commit introduces a new kind of back reference for btrfs metadata.
Once a filesystem has been mounted with this commit, IT WILL NO LONGER
BE MOUNTABLE BY OLDER KERNELS.

When a tree block in subvolume tree is cow'd, the reference counts of all
extents it points to are increased by one.  At transaction commit time,
the old root of the subvolume is recorded in a "dead root" data structure,
and the btree it points to is later walked, dropping reference counts
and freeing any blocks where the reference count goes to 0.

The increments done during cow and decrements done after commit cancel out,
and the walk is a very expensive way to go about freeing the blocks that
are no longer referenced by the new btree root.  This commit reduces the
transaction overhead by avoiding the need for dead root records.

When a non-shared tree block is cow'd, we free the old block at once, and the
new block inherits old block's references. When a tree block with reference
count &gt; 1 is cow'd, we increase the reference counts of all extents
the new block points to by one, and decrease the old block's reference count by
one.

This dead tree avoidance code removes the need to modify the reference
counts of lower level extents when a non-shared tree block is cow'd.
But we still need to update back ref for all pointers in the block.
This is because the location of the block is recorded in the back ref
item.

We can solve this by introducing a new type of back ref. The new
back ref provides information about pointer's key, level and in which
tree the pointer lives. This information allow us to find the pointer
by searching the tree. The shortcoming of the new back ref is that it
only works for pointers in tree blocks referenced by their owner trees.

This is mostly a problem for snapshots, where resolving one of these
fuzzy back references would be O(number_of_snapshots) and quite slow.
The solution used here is to use the fuzzy back references in the common
case where a given tree block is only referenced by one root,
and use the full back references when multiple roots have a reference
on a given block.

This commit adds per subvolume red-black tree to keep trace of cached
inodes. The red-black tree helps the balancing code to find cached
inodes whose inode numbers within a given range.

This commit improves the balancing code by introducing several data
structures to keep the state of balancing. The most important one
is the back ref cache. It caches how the upper level tree blocks are
referenced. This greatly reduce the overhead of checking back ref.

The improved balancing code scales significantly better with a large
number of snapshots.

This is a very large commit and was written in a number of
pieces.  But, they depend heavily on the disk format change and were
squashed together to make sure git bisect didn't end up in a
bad state wrt space balancing or the format change.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng &lt;zheng.yan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Btrfs: simplify makefile</title>
<updated>2009-04-24T19:46:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-13T13:32:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=2ea2544ef5dad5cac52f1e4c7b812631274fc1cb'/>
<id>2ea2544ef5dad5cac52f1e4c7b812631274fc1cb</id>
<content type='text'>
Get rid of the hacks for building out of tree, and always use += for
assigning to the object lists.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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<pre>
Get rid of the hacks for building out of tree, and always use += for
assigning to the object lists.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
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