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Commit 75a36a7d authored by Qu Wenruo's avatar Qu Wenruo Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: avoid defragging extents whose next extents are not targets

[BUG]
There is a report that autodefrag is defragging single sector, which
is completely waste of IO, and no help for defragging:

   btrfs-cleaner-808 defrag_one_locked_range: root=256 ino=651122 start=0 len=4096

[CAUSE]
In defrag_collect_targets(), we check if the current range (A) can be merged
with next one (B).

If mergeable, we will add range A into target for defrag.

However there is a catch for autodefrag, when checking mergeability
against range B, we intentionally pass 0 as @newer_than, hoping to get a
higher chance to merge with the next extent.

But in the next iteration, range B will looked up by defrag_lookup_extent(),
with non-zero @newer_than.

And if range B is not really newer, it will rejected directly, causing
only range A being defragged, while we expect to defrag both range A and
B.

[FIX]
Since the root cause is the difference in check condition of
defrag_check_next_extent() and defrag_collect_targets(), we fix it by:

1. Pass @newer_than to defrag_check_next_extent()
2. Pass @extent_thresh to defrag_check_next_extent()

This makes the check between defrag_collect_targets() and
defrag_check_next_extent() more consistent.

While there is still some minor difference, the remaining checks are
focus on runtime flags like writeback/delalloc, which are mostly
transient and safe to be checked only in defrag_collect_targets().

Link: https://github.com/btrfs/linux/issues/423#issuecomment-1066981856


CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.16+
Reviewed-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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