Btrfs: balance delayed inode updates
authorJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Thu, 6 Feb 2014 21:06:06 +0000 (16:06 -0500)
committerJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:15:52 +0000 (15:15 -0400)
While trying to reproduce a delayed ref problem I noticed the box kept falling
over using all 80gb of my ram with btrfs_inode's and btrfs_delayed_node's.
Turns out this is because we only throttle delayed inode updates in
btrfs_dirty_inode, which doesn't actually get called that often, especially when
all you are doing is creating a bunch of files.  So balance delayed inode
updates everytime we create a new inode.  With this patch we no longer use up
all of our ram with delayed inode updates.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
fs/btrfs/inode.c

index 4ffb6d79f9f04a611767ab034afa6dbf218df73d..a7e6690e0946145479043d04f0751b2ff6061581 100644 (file)
@@ -5795,6 +5795,7 @@ static int btrfs_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
        }
 out_unlock:
        btrfs_end_transaction(trans, root);
+       btrfs_balance_delayed_items(root);
        btrfs_btree_balance_dirty(root);
        if (drop_inode) {
                inode_dec_link_count(inode);
@@ -5868,6 +5869,7 @@ out_unlock:
                inode_dec_link_count(inode);
                iput(inode);
        }
+       btrfs_balance_delayed_items(root);
        btrfs_btree_balance_dirty(root);
        return err;
 }
@@ -5926,6 +5928,7 @@ static int btrfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir,
        }
 
        btrfs_end_transaction(trans, root);
+       btrfs_balance_delayed_items(root);
 fail:
        if (drop_inode) {
                inode_dec_link_count(inode);
@@ -5992,6 +5995,7 @@ out_fail:
        btrfs_end_transaction(trans, root);
        if (drop_on_err)
                iput(inode);
+       btrfs_balance_delayed_items(root);
        btrfs_btree_balance_dirty(root);
        return err;
 }