tree d2fd54693847b6ed1307ed1eb5d3f87b95e31538
parent 4eb3991c5def39bcf553c14ebe2618fcb47b627f
author Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> 1257906228 -0500
committer Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> 1257967219 -0500

Btrfs: find ideal block group for caching

This patch changes a few things.  Hopefully the comments are helpfull, but
I'll try and be as verbose here.

Problem:

My fedora box was taking 1 minute and 21 seconds to boot with btrfs as root.
Part of this problem was we pick the first block group we can find and start
caching it, even if it may not have enough free space.  The other problem is
we only search for cached block groups the first time around, which we won't
find any cached block groups because this is a newly mounted fs, so we end up
caching several block groups during bootup, which with alot of fragmentation
takes around 30-45 seconds to complete, which bogs down the system.  So

Solution:

1) Don't cache block groups willy-nilly at first.  Instead try and figure out
which block group has the most free, and therefore will take the least amount
of time to cache.

2) Don't be so picky about cached block groups.  The other problem is once
we've filled up a cluster, if the block group isn't finished caching the next
time we try and do the allocation we'll completely ignore the cluster and
start searching from the beginning of the space, which makes us cache more
block groups, which slows us down even more.  So instead of skipping block
groups that are not finished caching when we have a hint, only skip the block
group if it hasn't started caching yet.

There is one other tweak in here.  Before if we allocated a chunk and still
couldn't find new space, we'd end up switching the space info to force another
chunk allocation.  This could make us end up with way too many chunks, so keep
track of this particular case.

With this patch and my previous cluster fixes my fedora box now boots in 43
seconds, and according to the bootchart is not held up by our block group
caching at all.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>