Followup from my observation wrt. "Btrfs: change how we wait for
pending ordered extents" and balance sitting idle:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to set some per transaction flags, so instead of adding yet another int
> lets just convert the current two int indicators to flags and add a flags field
> for future use. Thanks,
..snip..
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> index ff64689..3f5a781 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> @@ -1399,7 +1399,7 @@ again:
> btrfs_error(root->fs_info, ret,
> "Failed to remove dev extent item");
> } else {
> - trans->transaction->have_free_bgs = 1;
> + set_bit(BTRFS_TRANS_DIRTY_BG_RUN, &trans->transaction->flags);
Judging from the rest of the code transformation TRANS_DIRTY_BG_RUN
seems like the wrong bit to set here. A quick test with
set_bit(BTRFS_TRANS_HAVE_FREE_BGS) confirms that it fixes the balance
delays.
cheers
Holger
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