btrfs: always reserve space for delayed refs when starting transaction
When starting a transaction (or joining an existing one with
btrfs_start_transaction()), we reserve space for the number of items we
want to insert in a btree, but we don't do it for the delayed refs we
will generate while using the transaction to modify (COW) extent buffers
in a btree or allocate new extent buffers. Basically how it works:
1) When we start a transaction we reserve space for the number of items
the caller wants to be inserted/modified/deleted in a btree. This space
goes to the transaction block reserve;
2) If the delayed refs block reserve is not full, its size is greater
than the amount of its reserved space, and the flush method is
BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_ALL, then we attempt to reserve more space for
it corresponding to the number of items the caller wants to
insert/modify/delete in a btree;
3) The size of the delayed refs block reserve is increased when a task
creates delayed refs after COWing an extent buffer, allocating a new
one or deleting (freeing) an extent buffer. This happens after the
the task started or joined a transaction, whenever it calls
btrfs_update_delayed_refs_rsv();
4) The delayed refs block reserve is then refilled by anyone calling
btrfs_delayed_refs_rsv_refill(), either during unlink/truncate
operations or when someone else calls btrfs_start_transaction() with
a 0 number of items and flush method BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_ALL;
5) As a task COWs or allocates extent buffers, it consumes space from the
transaction block reserve. When the task releases its transaction
handle (btrfs_end_transaction()) or it attempts to commit the
transaction, it releases any remaining space in the transaction block
reserve that it did not use, as not all space may have been used (due
to pessimistic space calculation) by calling btrfs_block_rsv_release()
which will try to add that unused space to the delayed refs block
reserve (if its current size is greater than its reserved space).
That transferred space may not be enough to completely fulfill the
delayed refs block reserve.
Plus we have some tasks that will attempt do modify as many leaves
as they can before getting -ENOSPC (and then reserving more space and
retrying), such as hole punching and extent cloning which call
btrfs_replace_file_extents(). Such tasks can generate therefore a
high number of delayed refs, for both metadata and data (we can't
know in advance how many file extent items we will find in a range
and therefore how many delayed refs for dropping references on data
extents we will generate);
6) If a transaction starts its commit before the delayed refs block
reserve is refilled, for example by the transaction kthread or by
someone who called btrfs_join_transaction() before starting the
commit, then when running delayed references if we don't have enough
reserved space in the delayed refs block reserve, we will consume
space from the global block reserve.
Now this doesn't make a lot of sense because:
1) We should reserve space for delayed references when starting the
transaction, since we have no guarantees the delayed refs block
reserve will be refilled;
2) If no refill happens then we will consume from the global block reserve
when running delayed refs during the transaction commit;
3) If we have a bunch of tasks calling btrfs_start_transaction() with a
number of items greater than zero and at the time the delayed refs
reserve is full, then we don't reserve any space at
btrfs_start_transaction() for the delayed refs that will be generated
by a task, and we can therefore end up using a lot of space from the
global reserve when running the delayed refs during a transaction
commit;
4) There are also other operations that result in bumping the size of the
delayed refs reserve, such as creating and deleting block groups, as
well as the need to update a block group item because we allocated or
freed an extent from the respective block group;
5) If we have a significant gap between the delayed refs reserve's size
and its reserved space, two very bad things may happen:
1) The reserved space of the global reserve may not be enough and we
fail the transaction commit with -ENOSPC when running delayed refs;
2) If the available space in the global reserve is enough it may result
in nearly exhausting it. If the fs has no more unallocated device
space for allocating a new block group and all the available space
in existing metadata block groups is not far from the global
reserve's size before we started the transaction commit, we may end
up in a situation where after the transaction commit we have too
little available metadata space, and any future transaction commit
will fail with -ENOSPC, because although we were able to reserve
space to start the transaction, we were not able to commit it, as
running delayed refs generates some more delayed refs (to update the
extent tree for example) - this includes not even being able to
commit a transaction that was started with the goal of unlinking a
file, removing an empty data block group or doing reclaim/balance,
so there's no way to release metadata space.
In the worst case the next time we mount the filesystem we may
also fail with -ENOSPC due to failure to commit a transaction to
cleanup orphan inodes. This later case was reported and hit by
someone running a SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise) distribution for
example - where the fs had no more unallocated space that could be
used to allocate a new metadata block group, and the available
metadata space was about 1.5M, not enough to commit a transaction
to cleanup an orphan inode (or do relocation of data block groups
that were far from being full).
So improve on this situation by always reserving space for delayed refs
when calling start_transaction(), and if the flush method is
BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_ALL, also try to refill the delayed refs block
reserve if it's not full. The space reserved for the delayed refs is added
to a local block reserve that is part of the transaction handle, and when
a task updates the delayed refs block reserve size, after creating a
delayed ref, the space is transferred from that local reserve to the
global delayed refs reserve (fs_info->delayed_refs_rsv). In case the
local reserve does not have enough space, which may happen for tasks
that generate a variable and potentially large number of delayed refs
(such as the hole punching and extent cloning cases mentioned before),
we transfer any available space and then rely on the current behaviour
of hoping some other task refills the delayed refs reserve or fallback
to the global block reserve.
Reviewed-by: 
Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: 
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: 
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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