Re: [PATCH] btrfs: make sure all pending extent operations are complete

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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:52:04PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Theres a slight problem with finish_current_insert, if we set all to 1 and then
> go through and don't actually skip any of the extents on the pending list, we
> could exit right after we've added new extents.  This is a problem because by
> inserting the new extents we could have gotten new COW's to happen and such, so
> we may have some pending updates to do or even more inserts to do after that.
> So this patch will only exit if we have never skipped any of the extents in the
> pending list, and we have no extents to insert, this will make sure that all of
> the pending work is truly done before we return.  I've been running with this
> patch for a few days with all of my other testing and have not seen issues.
> Thanks,
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hello,

Here's an updated patch I've been testing with.  It needs more testing, but its
very similar to the last patch, it just sets restart = 1 if all is set and we
updated some backrefs.  Thanks,

Josef

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index 9e56287..7ee94b9 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -2266,13 +2266,12 @@ static int finish_current_insert(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	u64 end;
 	u64 priv;
 	u64 search = 0;
-	u64 skipped = 0;
 	struct btrfs_fs_info *info = extent_root->fs_info;
 	struct btrfs_path *path;
 	struct pending_extent_op *extent_op, *tmp;
 	struct list_head insert_list, update_list;
 	int ret;
-	int num_inserts = 0, max_inserts;
+	int num_inserts = 0, max_inserts, restart = 0;
 
 	path = btrfs_alloc_path();
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&insert_list);
@@ -2288,19 +2287,19 @@ again:
 		ret = find_first_extent_bit(&info->extent_ins, search, &start,
 					    &end, EXTENT_WRITEBACK);
 		if (ret) {
-			if (skipped && all && !num_inserts &&
+			if (restart && !num_inserts &&
 			    list_empty(&update_list)) {
-				skipped = 0;
+				restart = 0;
 				search = 0;
 				continue;
 			}
-			mutex_unlock(&info->extent_ins_mutex);
 			break;
 		}
 
 		ret = try_lock_extent(&info->extent_ins, start, end, GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!ret) {
-			skipped = 1;
+			if (all)
+				restart = 1;
 			search = end + 1;
 			if (need_resched()) {
 				mutex_unlock(&info->extent_ins_mutex);
@@ -2319,7 +2318,7 @@ again:
 			list_add_tail(&extent_op->list, &insert_list);
 			search = end + 1;
 			if (num_inserts == max_inserts) {
-				mutex_unlock(&info->extent_ins_mutex);
+				restart = 1;
 				break;
 			}
 		} else if (extent_op->type == PENDING_BACKREF_UPDATE) {
@@ -2335,7 +2334,6 @@ again:
 	 * somebody marked this thing for deletion then just unlock it and be
 	 * done, the free_extents will handle it
 	 */
-	mutex_lock(&info->extent_ins_mutex);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(extent_op, tmp, &update_list, list) {
 		clear_extent_bits(&info->extent_ins, extent_op->bytenr,
 				  extent_op->bytenr + extent_op->num_bytes - 1,
@@ -2357,6 +2355,10 @@ again:
 	if (!list_empty(&update_list)) {
 		ret = update_backrefs(trans, extent_root, path, &update_list);
 		BUG_ON(ret);
+
+		/* we may have COW'ed new blocks, so lets start over */
+		if (all)
+			restart = 1;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -2364,9 +2366,9 @@ again:
 	 * need to make sure everything is cleaned then reset everything and
 	 * go back to the beginning
 	 */
-	if (!num_inserts && all && skipped) {
+	if (!num_inserts && restart) {
 		search = 0;
-		skipped = 0;
+		restart = 0;
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&update_list);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&insert_list);
 		goto again;
@@ -2423,27 +2425,19 @@ again:
 	BUG_ON(ret);
 
 	/*
-	 * if we broke out of the loop in order to insert stuff because we hit
-	 * the maximum number of inserts at a time we can handle, then loop
-	 * back and pick up where we left off
+	 * if restart is set for whatever reason we need to go back and start
+	 * searching through the pending list again.
+	 *
+	 * We just inserted some extents, which could have resulted in new
+	 * blocks being allocated, which would result in new blocks needing
+	 * updates, so if all is set we _must_ restart to get the updated
+	 * blocks.
 	 */
-	if (num_inserts == max_inserts) {
-		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&insert_list);
-		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&update_list);
-		num_inserts = 0;
-		goto again;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * again, if we need to make absolutely sure there are no more pending
-	 * extent operations left and we know that we skipped some, go back to
-	 * the beginning and do it all again
-	 */
-	if (all && skipped) {
+	if (restart || all) {
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&insert_list);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&update_list);
 		search = 0;
-		skipped = 0;
+		restart = 0;
 		num_inserts = 0;
 		goto again;
 	}
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