1. 29 Oct, 2008 1 commit
    • Chris Mason's avatar
      Btrfs: Add zlib compression support · c8b97818
      Chris Mason authored
      This is a large change for adding compression on reading and writing,
      both for inline and regular extents.  It does some fairly large
      surgery to the writeback paths.
      
      Compression is off by default and enabled by mount -o compress.  Even
      when the -o compress mount option is not used, it is possible to read
      compressed extents off the disk.
      
      If compression for a given set of pages fails to make them smaller, the
      file is flagged to avoid future compression attempts later.
      
      * While finding delalloc extents, the pages are locked before being sent down
      to the delalloc handler.  This allows the delalloc handler to do complex things
      such as cleaning the pages, marking them writeback and starting IO on their
      behalf.
      
      * Inline extents are inserted at delalloc time now.  This allows us to compress
      the data before inserting the inline extent, and it allows us to insert
      an inline extent that spans multiple pages.
      
      * All of the in-memory extent representations (extent_map.c, ordered-data.c etc)
      are changed to record both an in-memory size and an on disk size, as well
      as a flag for compression.
      
      From a disk format point of view, the extent pointers in the file are changed
      to record the on disk size of a given extent and some encoding flags.
      Space in the disk format is allocated for compression encoding, as well
      as encryption and a generic 'other' field.  Neither the encryption or the
      'other' field are currently used.
      
      In order to limit the amount of data read for a single random read in the
      file, the size of a compressed extent is limited to 128k.  This is a
      software only limit, the disk format supports u64 sized compressed extents.
      
      In order to limit the ram consumed while processing extents, the uncompressed
      size of a compressed extent is limited to 256k.  This is a software only limit
      and will be subject to tuning later.
      
      Checksumming is still done on compressed extents, and it is done on the
      uncompressed version of the data.  This way additional encodings can be
      layered on without having to figure out which encoding to checksum.
      
      Compression happens at delalloc time, which is basically singled threaded because
      it is usually done by a single pdflush thread.  This makes it tricky to
      spread the compression load across all the cpus on the box.  We'll have to
      look at parallel pdflush walks of dirty inodes at a later time.
      
      Decompression is hooked into readpages and it does spread across CPUs nicely.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
      c8b97818
  2. 16 Oct, 2008 1 commit
  3. 10 Oct, 2008 2 commits
    • Josef Bacik's avatar
      Btrfs: make tree_search_offset more flexible in its searching · 37d3cddd
      Josef Bacik authored
      Sometimes we end up freeing a reserved extent because we don't need it, however
      this means that its possible for transaction->last_alloc to point to the middle
      of a free area.
      
      When we search for free space in find_free_space we do a tree_search_offset
      with contains set to 0, because we want it to find the next best free area if
      we do not have an offset starting on the given offset.
      
      Unfortunately that currently means that if the offset we were given as a hint
      points to the middle of a free area, we won't find anything.  This is especially
      bad if we happened to last allocate from the big huge chunk of a newly formed
      block group, since we won't find anything and have to go back and search the
      long way around.
      
      This fixes this problem by making it so that we return the free space area
      regardless of the contains variable.  This made cache missing happen _alot_
      less, and speeds things up considerably.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
      37d3cddd
    • Chris Mason's avatar
      Btrfs: Don't call security_inode_mkdir during subvol creation · a3dddf3f
      Chris Mason authored
      Subvol creation already requires privs, and security_inode_mkdir isn't
      exported.  For now we don't need it.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
      a3dddf3f
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