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Author SHA1 Message Date
Chris Mason bd681513fa Btrfs: switch the btrfs tree locks to reader/writer
The btrfs metadata btree is the source of significant
lock contention, especially in the root node.   This
commit changes our locking to use a reader/writer
lock.

The lock is built on top of rw spinlocks, and it
extends the lock tracking to remember if we have a
read lock or a write lock when we go to blocking.  Atomics
count the number of blocking readers or writers at any
given time.

It removes all of the adaptive spinning from the old code
and uses only the spinning/blocking hints inside of btrfs
to decide when it should continue spinning.

In read heavy workloads this is dramatically faster.  In write
heavy workloads we're still faster because of less contention
on the root node lock.

We suffer slightly in dbench because we schedule more often
during write locks, but all other benchmarks so far are improved.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-07-27 12:46:46 -04:00
David Sterba f2a97a9dbd btrfs: remove all unused functions
Remove static and global declarations and/or definitions. Reduces size
of btrfs.ko by ~3.4kB.

  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
402081    7464     200  409745   64091 btrfs.ko.base
398620    7144     200  405964   631cc btrfs.ko.remove-all

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
2011-05-06 12:34:03 +02:00
Chris Mason b9447ef80b Btrfs: fix spinlock assertions on UP systems
btrfs_tree_locked was being used to make sure a given extent_buffer was
properly locked in a few places.  But, it wasn't correct for UP compiled
kernels.

This switches it to using assert_spin_locked instead, and renames it to
btrfs_assert_tree_locked to better reflect how it was really being used.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-03-09 11:45:38 -04:00
Chris Mason 284b066af4 Btrfs: don't use spin_is_contended
Btrfs was using spin_is_contended to see if it should drop locks before
doing extent allocations during btrfs_search_slot.  The idea was to avoid
expensive searches in the tree unless the lock was actually contended.

But, spin_is_contended is specific to the ticket spinlocks on x86, so this
is causing compile errors everywhere else.

In practice, the contention could easily appear some time after we started
doing the extent allocation, and it makes more sense to always drop the lock
instead.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-02-09 16:22:03 -05:00
Chris Mason b4ce94de9b Btrfs: Change btree locking to use explicit blocking points
Most of the btrfs metadata operations can be protected by a spinlock,
but some operations still need to schedule.

So far, btrfs has been using a mutex along with a trylock loop,
most of the time it is able to avoid going for the full mutex, so
the trylock loop is a big performance gain.

This commit is step one for getting rid of the blocking locks entirely.
btrfs_tree_lock takes a spinlock, and the code explicitly switches
to a blocking lock when it starts an operation that can schedule.

We'll be able get rid of the blocking locks in smaller pieces over time.
Tracing allows us to find the most common cause of blocking, so we
can start with the hot spots first.

The basic idea is:

btrfs_tree_lock() returns with the spin lock held

btrfs_set_lock_blocking() sets the EXTENT_BUFFER_BLOCKING bit in
the extent buffer flags, and then drops the spin lock.  The buffer is
still considered locked by all of the btrfs code.

If btrfs_tree_lock gets the spinlock but finds the blocking bit set, it drops
the spin lock and waits on a wait queue for the blocking bit to go away.

Much of the code that needs to set the blocking bit finishes without actually
blocking a good percentage of the time.  So, an adaptive spin is still
used against the blocking bit to avoid very high context switch rates.

btrfs_clear_lock_blocking() clears the blocking bit and returns
with the spinlock held again.

btrfs_tree_unlock() can be called on either blocking or spinning locks,
it does the right thing based on the blocking bit.

ctree.c has a helper function to set/clear all the locked buffers in a
path as blocking.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-02-04 09:25:08 -05:00
Chris Mason 65b51a009e btrfs_search_slot: reduce lock contention by cowing in two stages
A btree block cow has two parts, the first is to allocate a destination
block and the second is to copy the old bock over.

The first part needs locks in the extent allocation tree, and may need to
do IO.  This changeset splits that into a separate function that can be
called without any tree locks held.

btrfs_search_slot is changed to drop its path and start over if it has
to COW a contended block.  This often means that many writers will
pre-alloc a new destination for a the same contended block, but they
cache their prealloc for later use on lower levels in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:06 -04:00
Chris Mason 925baeddc5 Btrfs: Start btree concurrency work.
The allocation trees and the chunk trees are serialized via their own
dedicated mutexes.  This means allocation location is still not very
fine grained.

The main FS btree is protected by locks on each block in the btree.  Locks
are taken top / down, and as processing finishes on a given level of the
tree, the lock is released after locking the lower level.

The end result of a search is now a path where only the lowest level
is locked.  Releasing or freeing the path drops any locks held.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:03 -04:00