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<title>xfs: do not discard alloc btree blocks</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T16:17:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2011-05-04T18:55:15+00:00</published>
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Blocks for the allocation btree are allocated from and released to
the AGFL, and thus frequently reused.  Even worse we do not have an
easy way to avoid using an AGFL block when it is discarded due to
the simple FILO list of free blocks, and thus can frequently stall
on blocks that are currently undergoing a discard.

Add a flag to the busy extent tracking structure to skip the discard
for allocation btree blocks.  In normal operation these blocks are
reused frequently enough that there is no need to discard them
anyway, but if they spill over to the allocation btree as part of a
balance we "leak" blocks that we would otherwise discard.  We could
fix this by adding another flag and keeping these block in the
rbtree even after they aren't busy any more so that we could discard
them when they migrate out of the AGFL.  Given that this would cause
significant overhead I don't think it's worthwile for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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Blocks for the allocation btree are allocated from and released to
the AGFL, and thus frequently reused.  Even worse we do not have an
easy way to avoid using an AGFL block when it is discarded due to
the simple FILO list of free blocks, and thus can frequently stall
on blocks that are currently undergoing a discard.

Add a flag to the busy extent tracking structure to skip the discard
for allocation btree blocks.  In normal operation these blocks are
reused frequently enough that there is no need to discard them
anyway, but if they spill over to the allocation btree as part of a
balance we "leak" blocks that we would otherwise discard.  We could
fix this by adding another flag and keeping these block in the
rbtree even after they aren't busy any more so that we could discard
them when they migrate out of the AGFL.  Given that this would cause
significant overhead I don't think it's worthwile for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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<title>xfs: add online discard support</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T16:17:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2011-05-20T13:45:32+00:00</published>
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Now that we have reliably tracking of deleted extents in a
transaction we can easily implement "online" discard support
which calls blkdev_issue_discard once a transaction commits.

The actual discard is a two stage operation as we first have
to mark the busy extent as not available for reuse before we
can start the actual discard.  Note that we don't bother
supporting discard for the non-delaylog mode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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Now that we have reliably tracking of deleted extents in a
transaction we can easily implement "online" discard support
which calls blkdev_issue_discard once a transaction commits.

The actual discard is a two stage operation as we first have
to mark the busy extent as not available for reuse before we
can start the actual discard.  Note that we don't bother
supporting discard for the non-delaylog mode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: obey minleft values during extent allocation correctly</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T17:03:48+00:00</updated>
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<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2011-04-21T09:34:28+00:00</published>
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When allocating an extent that is long enough to consume the
remaining free space in an AG, we need to ensure that the allocation
leaves enough space in the AG for any subsequent bmap btree blocks
that are needed to track the new extent. These have to be allocated
in the same AG as we only reserve enough blocks in an allocation
transaction for modification of the freespace trees in a single AG.

xfs_alloc_fix_minleft() has been considering blocks on the AGFL as
free blocks available for extent and bmbt block allocation, which is
not correct - blocks on the AGFL are there exclusively for the use
of the free space btrees. As a result, when minleft is less than the
number of blocks on the AGFL, xfs_alloc_fix_minleft() does not trim
the given extent to leave minleft blocks available for bmbt
allocation, and hence we can fail allocation during bmbt record
insertion.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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When allocating an extent that is long enough to consume the
remaining free space in an AG, we need to ensure that the allocation
leaves enough space in the AG for any subsequent bmap btree blocks
that are needed to track the new extent. These have to be allocated
in the same AG as we only reserve enough blocks in an allocation
transaction for modification of the freespace trees in a single AG.

xfs_alloc_fix_minleft() has been considering blocks on the AGFL as
free blocks available for extent and bmbt block allocation, which is
not correct - blocks on the AGFL are there exclusively for the use
of the free space btrees. As a result, when minleft is less than the
number of blocks on the AGFL, xfs_alloc_fix_minleft() does not trim
the given extent to leave minleft blocks available for bmbt
allocation, and hence we can fail allocation during bmbt record
insertion.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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<title>xfs: reduce the number of pagb_lock roundtrips in xfs_alloc_clear_busy</title>
<updated>2011-04-28T18:18:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2011-04-24T19:06:17+00:00</published>
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Instead of finding the per-ag and then taking and releasing the pagb_lock
for every single busy extent completed sort the list of busy extents and
only switch betweens AGs where nessecary.  This becomes especially important
with the online discard support which will hit this lock more often.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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Instead of finding the per-ag and then taking and releasing the pagb_lock
for every single busy extent completed sort the list of busy extents and
only switch betweens AGs where nessecary.  This becomes especially important
with the online discard support which will hit this lock more often.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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<title>xfs: exact busy extent tracking</title>
<updated>2011-04-28T18:18:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2011-04-24T19:06:16+00:00</published>
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Update the extent tree in case we have to reuse a busy extent, so that it
always is kept uptodate.  This is done by replacing the busy list searches
with a new xfs_alloc_busy_reuse helper, which updates the busy extent tree
in case of a reuse.  This allows us to allow reusing metadata extents
unconditionally, and thus avoid log forces especially for allocation btree
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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Update the extent tree in case we have to reuse a busy extent, so that it
always is kept uptodate.  This is done by replacing the busy list searches
with a new xfs_alloc_busy_reuse helper, which updates the busy extent tree
in case of a reuse.  This allows us to allow reusing metadata extents
unconditionally, and thus avoid log forces especially for allocation btree
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: do not immediately reuse busy extent ranges</title>
<updated>2011-04-28T18:18:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-24T19:06:15+00:00</published>
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Every time we reallocate a busy extent, we cause a synchronous log force
to occur to ensure the freeing transaction is on disk before we continue
and use the newly allocated extent.  This is extremely sub-optimal as we
have to mark every transaction with blocks that get reused as synchronous.

Instead of searching the busy extent list after deciding on the extent to
allocate, check each candidate extent during the allocation decisions as
to whether they are in the busy list.  If they are in the busy list, we
trim the busy range out of the extent we have found and determine if that
trimmed range is still OK for allocation. In many cases, this check can
be incorporated into the allocation extent alignment code which already
does trimming of the found extent before determining if it is a valid
candidate for allocation.

Based on earlier patches from Dave Chinner.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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Every time we reallocate a busy extent, we cause a synchronous log force
to occur to ensure the freeing transaction is on disk before we continue
and use the newly allocated extent.  This is extremely sub-optimal as we
have to mark every transaction with blocks that get reused as synchronous.

Instead of searching the busy extent list after deciding on the extent to
allocate, check each candidate extent during the allocation decisions as
to whether they are in the busy list.  If they are in the busy list, we
trim the busy range out of the extent we have found and determine if that
trimmed range is still OK for allocation. In many cases, this check can
be incorporated into the allocation extent alignment code which already
does trimming of the found extent before determining if it is a valid
candidate for allocation.

Based on earlier patches from Dave Chinner.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: optimize AGFL refills</title>
<updated>2011-04-28T18:17:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2011-04-24T19:06:14+00:00</published>
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While we need to make sure we do not reuse busy extents, there is no need
to force out busy extents when moving them between the AGFL and the
freespace btree as we still take care of that when doing the real allocation.

To avoid the log force when just moving extents from the different free
space tracking structures, move the busy search out of
xfs_alloc_get_freelist into the callers that need it, and move the busy
list insert from xfs_free_ag_extent which is used both by AGFL refills
and real allocation to xfs_free_extent, which is only used by the latter.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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While we need to make sure we do not reuse busy extents, there is no need
to force out busy extents when moving them between the AGFL and the
freespace btree as we still take care of that when doing the real allocation.

To avoid the log force when just moving extents from the different free
space tracking structures, move the busy search out of
xfs_alloc_get_freelist into the callers that need it, and move the busy
list insert from xfs_free_ag_extent which is used both by AGFL refills
and real allocation to xfs_free_extent, which is only used by the latter.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: catch bad block numbers freeing extents.</title>
<updated>2011-04-08T02:45:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2011-04-08T02:45:07+00:00</published>
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A fuzzed filesystem crashed a kernel when freeing an extent with a
block number beyond the end of the filesystem. Convert all the debug
asserts in xfs_free_extent() to active checks so that we catch bad
extents and return that the filesytsem is corrupted rather than
crashing.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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A fuzzed filesystem crashed a kernel when freeing an extent with a
block number beyond the end of the filesystem. Convert all the debug
asserts in xfs_free_extent() to active checks so that we catch bad
extents and return that the filesytsem is corrupted rather than
crashing.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: factor agf counter updates into a helper</title>
<updated>2011-03-09T14:23:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2011-03-04T12:59:55+00:00</published>
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Updating the AGF and transactions counters is duplicated between allocating
and freeing extents.  Factor the code into a common helper.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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Updating the AGF and transactions counters is duplicated between allocating
and freeing extents.  Factor the code into a common helper.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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<title>xfs: clean up the xfs_alloc_compute_aligned calling convention</title>
<updated>2011-03-09T14:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2011-03-04T12:59:54+00:00</published>
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Pass a xfs_alloc_arg structure to xfs_alloc_compute_aligned and derive
the alignment and minlen paramters from it.  This cleans up the existing
callers, and we'll need even more information from the xfs_alloc_arg
in subsequent patches.  Based on a patch from Dave Chinner.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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Pass a xfs_alloc_arg structure to xfs_alloc_compute_aligned and derive
the alignment and minlen paramters from it.  This cleans up the existing
callers, and we'll need even more information from the xfs_alloc_arg
in subsequent patches.  Based on a patch from Dave Chinner.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
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