btrfs: improve global reserve stealing logic

For unlink transactions and block group removal
btrfs_start_transaction_fallback_global_rsv will first try to start an
ordinary transaction and if it fails it will fall back to reserving the
required amount by stealing from the global reserve. This is problematic
because of all the same reasons we had with previous iterations of the
ENOSPC handling, thundering herd.  We get a bunch of failures all at
once, everybody tries to allocate from the global reserve, some win and
some lose, we get an ENSOPC.

Fix this behavior by introducing BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_ALL_STEAL. It's
used to mark unlink reservation. To fix this we need to integrate this
logic into the normal ENOSPC infrastructure.  We still go through all of
the normal flushing work, and at the moment we begin to fail all the
tickets we try to satisfy any tickets that are allowed to steal by
stealing from the global reserve.  If this works we start the flushing
system over again just like we would with a normal ticket satisfaction.
This serializes our global reserve stealing, so we don't have the
thundering herd problem.

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Tested-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.h b/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
index 31ae8d273065..bf102e64bfb2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
@@ -193,8 +193,7 @@ struct btrfs_trans_handle *btrfs_start_transaction(struct btrfs_root *root,
 						   unsigned int num_items);
 struct btrfs_trans_handle *btrfs_start_transaction_fallback_global_rsv(
 					struct btrfs_root *root,
-					unsigned int num_items,
-					int min_factor);
+					unsigned int num_items);
 struct btrfs_trans_handle *btrfs_join_transaction(struct btrfs_root *root);
 struct btrfs_trans_handle *btrfs_join_transaction_spacecache(struct btrfs_root *root);
 struct btrfs_trans_handle *btrfs_join_transaction_nostart(struct btrfs_root *root);