xfs: account only rmapbt-used blocks against rmapbt perag res
The rmapbt perag metadata reservation reserves blocks for the reverse mapping btree (rmapbt). Since the rmapbt uses blocks from the agfl and perag accounting is updated as blocks are allocated from the allocation btrees, the reservation actually accounts blocks as they are allocated to (or freed from) the agfl rather than the rmapbt itself. While this works for blocks that are eventually used for the rmapbt, not all agfl blocks are destined for the rmapbt. Blocks that are allocated to the agfl (and thus "reserved" for the rmapbt) but then used by another structure leads to a growing inconsistency over time between the runtime tracking of rmapbt usage vs. actual rmapbt usage. Since the runtime tracking thinks all agfl blocks are rmapbt blocks, it essentially believes that less future reservation is required to satisfy the rmapbt than what is actually necessary. The inconsistency is rectified across mount cycles because the perag reservation is initialized based on the actual rmapbt usage at mount time. The problem, however, is that the excessive drain of the reservation at runtime opens a window to allocate blocks for other purposes that might be required for the rmapbt on a subsequent mount. This problem can be demonstrated by a simple test that runs an allocation workload to consume agfl blocks over time and then observe the difference in the agfl reservation requirement across an unmount/mount cycle: mount ...: xfs_ag_resv_init: ... resv 3193 ask 3194 len 3194 ... ... : xfs_ag_resv_alloc_extent: ... resv 2957 ask 3194 len 1 umount...: xfs_ag_resv_free: ... resv 2956 ask 3194 len 0 mount ...: xfs_ag_resv_init: ... resv 3052 ask 3194 len 3194 As the above tracepoints show, the reservation requirement reduces from 3194 blocks to 2956 blocks as the workload runs. Without any other changes in the filesystem, the same reservation requirement jumps from 2956 to 3052 blocks over a umount/mount cycle. To address this divergence, update the RMAPBT reservation to account blocks used for the rmapbt only rather than all blocks filled into the agfl. This patch makes several high-level changes toward that end: 1.) Reintroduce an AGFL reservation type to serve as an accounting no-op for blocks allocated to (or freed from) the AGFL. 2.) Invoke RMAPBT usage accounting from the actual rmapbt block allocation path rather than the AGFL allocation path. The first change is required because agfl blocks are considered free blocks throughout their lifetime. The perag reservation subsystem is invoked unconditionally by the allocation subsystem, so we need a way to tell the perag subsystem (via the allocation subsystem) to not make any accounting changes for blocks filled into the AGFL. The second change causes the in-core RMAPBT reservation usage accounting to remain consistent with the on-disk state at all times and eliminates the risk of leaving the rmapbt reservation underfilled. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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