Btrfs: stop committing the transaction so much during relocate
I noticed with my horrible snapshot excercisor that we were taking forever to relocate the larger the file system got. This appeared to be because we were committing the transaction _constantly_. There were a few places where we do braindead things with metadata reservation, like start a transaction and then try to refill the block rsv, which not only keeps us from committing a transaction during the enospc stuff, but keeps us from doing some of the harder flushing work which will make us more likely to need to commit the transaction. We also were checking the block rsv and committing the transaction if the block rsv was below a certain threshold, but we were doing this in a place where we don't actually keep anything in the block rsv so this was always ending up false so we always committed the transaction in this case. I tested this to make sure it didn't break anything, but it takes about 10 hours to get the box to this state so I don't know how much of an impact it will really make. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
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