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authorChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2009-02-04 09:27:02 -0500
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2009-02-04 09:27:02 -0500
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Btrfs: Make btrfs_drop_snapshot work in larger and more efficient chunks
Every transaction in btrfs creates a new snapshot, and then schedules the snapshot from the last transaction for deletion. Snapshot deletion works by walking down the btree and dropping the reference counts on each btree block during the walk. If if a given leaf or node has a reference count greater than one, the reference count is decremented and the subtree pointed to by that node is ignored. If the reference count is one, walking continues down into that node or leaf, and the references of everything it points to are decremented. The old code would try to work in small pieces, walking down the tree until it found the lowest leaf or node to free and then returning. This was very friendly to the rest of the FS because it didn't have a huge impact on other operations. But it wouldn't always keep up with the rate that new commits added new snapshots for deletion, and it wasn't very optimal for the extent allocation tree because it wasn't finding leaves that were close together on disk and processing them at the same time. This changes things to walk down to a level 1 node and then process it in bulk. All the leaf pointers are sorted and the leaves are dropped in order based on their extent number. The extent allocation tree and commit code are now fast enough for this kind of bulk processing to work without slowing the rest of the FS down. Overall it does less IO and is better able to keep up with snapshot deletions under high load. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ref-cache.h b/fs/btrfs/ref-cache.h
index 16f3183d7c59..bc283ad2db73 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ref-cache.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ref-cache.h
@@ -73,5 +73,4 @@ int btrfs_add_leaf_ref(struct btrfs_root *root, struct btrfs_leaf_ref *ref,
int btrfs_remove_leaf_refs(struct btrfs_root *root, u64 max_root_gen,
int shared);
int btrfs_remove_leaf_ref(struct btrfs_root *root, struct btrfs_leaf_ref *ref);
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#endif
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