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Commit 08dddb29 authored by Filipe Manana's avatar Filipe Manana Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: use rbtree with leftmost node cached for tracking lowest block group



We keep track of the start offset of the block group with the lowest start
offset at fs_info->first_logical_byte. This requires explicitly updating
that field every time we add, delete or lookup a block group to/from the
red black tree at fs_info->block_group_cache_tree.

Since the block group with the lowest start address happens to always be
the one that is the leftmost node of the tree, we can use a red black tree
that caches the left most node. Then when we need the start address of
that block group, we can just quickly get the leftmost node in the tree
and extract the start offset of that node's block group. This avoids the
need to explicitly keep track of that address in the dedicated member
fs_info->first_logical_byte, and it also allows the next patch in the
series to switch the lock that protects the red black tree from a spin
lock to a read/write lock - without this change it would be tricky
because block group searches also update fs_info->first_logical_byte.

Reviewed-by: default avatarNikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent 0eb997bf
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