btrfs: don't end the transaction for delayed refs in throttle
authorJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:31:43 +0000 (09:31 -0500)
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:41:11 +0000 (15:41 +0100)
Previously callers to btrfs_end_transaction_throttle() would commit the
transaction if there wasn't enough delayed refs space.  This happens in
relocation, and if the fs is relatively empty we'll run out of delayed
refs space basically immediately, so we'll just be stuck in this loop of
committing the transaction over and over again.

This code existed because we didn't have a good feedback mechanism for
running delayed refs, but with the delayed refs rsv we do now.  Delete
this throttling code and let the btrfs_start_transaction() in relocation
deal with putting pressure on the delayed refs infrastructure.  With
this patch we no longer take 5 minutes to balance a metadata only fs.

Qu has submitted a fstest to catch slow balance or excessive transaction
commits. Steps to reproduce:

* create subvolume
* create many (eg. 16000) inlined files, of size 2KiB
* iteratively snapshot and touch several files to trigger metadata
  updates
* start balance -m

Reported-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Fixes: 64403612b73a ("btrfs: rework btrfs_check_space_for_delayed_refs")
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
[ add tags and steps to reproduce ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
fs/btrfs/transaction.c

index 127fa1535f584e4dbaf201890e7613eb31e9ec6c..f15cf46f1b9d2332515f8dad722d2df7949bedc6 100644 (file)
@@ -850,14 +850,6 @@ static int __btrfs_end_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 
        btrfs_trans_release_chunk_metadata(trans);
 
-       if (lock && should_end_transaction(trans) &&
-           READ_ONCE(cur_trans->state) == TRANS_STATE_RUNNING) {
-               spin_lock(&info->trans_lock);
-               if (cur_trans->state == TRANS_STATE_RUNNING)
-                       cur_trans->state = TRANS_STATE_BLOCKED;
-               spin_unlock(&info->trans_lock);
-       }
-
        if (lock && READ_ONCE(cur_trans->state) == TRANS_STATE_BLOCKED) {
                if (throttle)
                        return btrfs_commit_transaction(trans);