Btrfs: Throttle tuning

This avoids waiting for transactions with pages locked by breaking out
the code to wait for the current transaction to close into a function
called by btrfs_throttle.

It also lowers the limits for where we start throttling.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index 4765248..b003b43 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -2526,6 +2526,9 @@ static int noinline walk_down_tree(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
                                *level = 0;
                                break;
                        }
+                       if (printk_ratelimit())
+                               printk("leaf ref miss for bytenr %llu\n",
+                                      (unsigned long long)bytenr);
                }
                next = btrfs_find_tree_block(root, bytenr, blocksize);
                if (!next || !btrfs_buffer_uptodate(next, ptr_gen)) {

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
index 388ac39..d3f2fe0 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static int noinline dirty_and_release_pages(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
        end_of_last_block = start_pos + num_bytes - 1;
 
        lock_extent(io_tree, start_pos, end_of_last_block, GFP_NOFS);
-       trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 1);
+       trans = btrfs_join_transaction(root, 1);
        if (!trans) {
                err = -ENOMEM;
                goto out_unlock;

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
index 52c5524..66af514 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
@@ -124,17 +124,12 @@ static noinline int record_root_in_trans(struct btrfs_root *root)
        return 0;
 }
 
-struct btrfs_trans_handle *start_transaction(struct btrfs_root *root,
-                                            int num_blocks, int join)
+static void wait_current_trans(struct btrfs_root *root)
 {
-       struct btrfs_trans_handle *h =
-               kmem_cache_alloc(btrfs_trans_handle_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
        struct btrfs_transaction *cur_trans;
-       int ret;
 
-       mutex_lock(&root->fs_info->trans_mutex);
        cur_trans = root->fs_info->running_transaction;
-       if (cur_trans && cur_trans->blocked && !join) {
+       if (cur_trans && cur_trans->blocked) {
                DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
                cur_trans->use_count++;
                while(1) {
@@ -154,6 +149,18 @@ struct btrfs_trans_handle *start_transaction(struct btrfs_root *root,
                }
                put_transaction(cur_trans);
        }
+}
+
+struct btrfs_trans_handle *start_transaction(struct btrfs_root *root,
+                                            int num_blocks, int join)
+{
+       struct btrfs_trans_handle *h =
+               kmem_cache_alloc(btrfs_trans_handle_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
+       int ret;
+
+       mutex_lock(&root->fs_info->trans_mutex);
+       if (!join)
+               wait_current_trans(root);
        ret = join_transaction(root);
        BUG_ON(ret);
 
@@ -200,7 +207,7 @@ static noinline int wait_for_commit(struct btrfs_root *root,
        return 0;
 }
 
-void btrfs_throttle(struct btrfs_root *root)
+static void throttle_on_drops(struct btrfs_root *root)
 {
        struct btrfs_fs_info *info = root->fs_info;
 
@@ -223,19 +230,28 @@ harder:
                } while (thr == atomic_read(&info->throttle_gen));
 
                if (harder_count < 5 &&
-                   info->total_ref_cache_size > 5 * 1024 * 1024) {
+                   info->total_ref_cache_size > 1 * 1024 * 1024) {
                        harder_count++;
                        goto harder;
                }
 
                if (harder_count < 10 &&
-                   info->total_ref_cache_size > 10 * 1024 * 1024) {
+                   info->total_ref_cache_size > 5 * 1024 * 1024) {
                        harder_count++;
                        goto harder;
                }
        }
 }
 
+void btrfs_throttle(struct btrfs_root *root)
+{
+       mutex_lock(&root->fs_info->trans_mutex);
+       wait_current_trans(root);
+       mutex_unlock(&root->fs_info->trans_mutex);
+
+       throttle_on_drops(root);
+}
+
 static int __btrfs_end_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
                          struct btrfs_root *root, int throttle)
 {
@@ -256,7 +272,7 @@ static int __btrfs_end_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
        kmem_cache_free(btrfs_trans_handle_cachep, trans);
 
        if (throttle)
-               btrfs_throttle(root);
+               throttle_on_drops(root);
 
        return 0;
 }