Btrfs: try harder to avoid btree node splits
When attempting to move items from our target leaf to its neighbor leaves (right and left), we only need to free data_size - free_space bytes from our leaf in order to add the new item (which has size of data_size bytes). Therefore attempt to move items to the right and left leaves if they have at least data_size - free_space bytes free, instead of data_size bytes free. After 5 runs of the following test, I got a smaller number of btree node splits overall: sysbench --test=fileio --file-num=512 --file-total-size=5G \ --file-test-mode=seqwr --num-threads=512 \ --file-block-size=8192 --max-requests=100000 --file-io-mode=sync Before this change: * 6171 splits (average of 5 test runs) * 61.508Mb/sec of throughput (average of 5 test runs) After this change: * 6036 splits (average of 5 test runs) * 63.533Mb/sec of throughput (average of 5 test runs) An ideal test would not just have multiple threads/processes writing to a file (insertion of file extent items) but also do other operations that result in insertion of items with varied sizes, like file/directory creations, creation of links, symlinks, xattrs, etc. Signed-off-by: Filipe David Borba Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
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