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Commit 11462397 authored by Josef Bacik's avatar Josef Bacik Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: do not do preemptive flushing if the majority is global rsv

A common characteristic of the bug report where preemptive flushing was
going full tilt was the fact that the vast majority of the free metadata
space was used up by the global reserve.  The hard 90% threshold would
cover the majority of these cases, but to be even smarter we should take
into account how much of the outstanding reservations are covered by the
global block reserve.  If the global block reserve accounts for the vast
majority of outstanding reservations, skip preemptive flushing, as it
will likely just cause churn and pain.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212185


Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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