Re: [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: account for pinned bytes and bytes_may_use in should_alloc_chunk

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On 6/21/17 5:15 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/21/2017 05:08 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>> On 6/21/17 4:31 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
>>> On 06/21/2017 04:14 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>>>> On 6/14/17 11:44 AM, jeffm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>> From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> In a heavy write scenario, we can end up with a large number of pinned
>>>>> bytes.  This can translate into (very) premature ENOSPC because pinned
>>>>> bytes must be accounted for when allowing a reservation but aren't
>>>>> accounted for when deciding whether to create a new chunk.
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch adds the accounting to should_alloc_chunk so that we can
>>>>> create the chunk.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 2 +-
>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
>>>>> index cb0b924..d027807 100644
>>>>> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
>>>>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
>>>>> @@ -4389,7 +4389,7 @@ static int should_alloc_chunk(struct
>>>>> btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
>>>>>  {
>>>>>      struct btrfs_block_rsv *global_rsv = &fs_info->global_block_rsv;
>>>>>      u64 num_bytes = sinfo->total_bytes - sinfo->bytes_readonly;
>>>>> -    u64 num_allocated = sinfo->bytes_used + sinfo->bytes_reserved;
>>>>> +    u64 num_allocated = sinfo->bytes_used + sinfo->bytes_reserved +
>>>>> sinfo->bytes_pinned + sinfo->bytes_may_use;
>>>>>      u64 thresh;
>>>>>
>>>>>      if (force == CHUNK_ALLOC_FORCE)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ignore this patch.  It certainly allocates chunks more aggressively,
>>>> but
>>>> it means we end up with a ton of metadata chunks even when we don't
>>>> have
>>>> much metadata.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Josef and I pushed this needle back and forth a bunch of times in the
>>> early days.  I still think we can allocate a few more chunks than we do
>>> now...
>>
>> I agree.  This patch was to fix an issue that we are seeing during
>> installation.  It'd stop with ENOSPC with >50GB completely unallocated.
>> The patch passed the test cases that were failing before but now it's
>> failing differently.  I was worried this pattern might be the end result:
>>
>> Data,single: Size:4.00GiB, Used:3.32GiB
>>    /dev/vde        4.00GiB
>>
>> Metadata,DUP: Size:20.00GiB, Used:204.12MiB
>>    /dev/vde       40.00GiB
>>
>> System,DUP: Size:8.00MiB, Used:16.00KiB
>>    /dev/vde       16.00MiB
>>
>> This is on a fresh file system with just "cp /usr /mnt" executed.
>>
>> I'm looking into it a bit more now.
> 
> Does this failure still happen with Omar's ENOSPC fix (commit:
> 70e7af244f24c94604ef6eca32ad297632018583)

Nope.  There aren't any warnings either with or without my patch.
Adding Omar's didn't make a difference.

-Jeff


-- 
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs

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