Btrfs: implement the free space B-tree
The free space cache has turned out to be a scalability bottleneck on large, busy filesystems. When the cache for a lot of block groups needs to be written out, we can get extremely long commit times; if this happens in the critical section, things are especially bad because we block new transactions from happening. The main problem with the free space cache is that it has to be written out in its entirety and is managed in an ad hoc fashion. Using a B-tree to store free space fixes this: updates can be done as needed and we get all of the benefits of using a B-tree: checksumming, RAID handling, well-understood behavior. With the free space tree, we get commit times that are about the same as the no cache case with load times slower than the free space cache case but still much faster than the no cache case. Free space is represented with extents until it becomes more space-efficient to use bitmaps, giving us similar space overhead to the free space cache. The operations on the free space tree are: adding and removing free space, handling the creation and deletion of block groups, and loading the free space for a block group. We can also create the free space tree by walking the extent tree and clear the free space tree. Signed-off-by:Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by:
Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
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