btrfs: avoid allocating and running pointless delayed extent operations

We always allocate a delayed extent op structure when allocating a tree
block (except for log trees), but most of the time we don't need it as
we only need to set the BTRFS_BLOCK_FLAG_FULL_BACKREF if we're dealing
with a relocation tree and we only need to set the key of a tree block
in a btrfs_tree_block_info structure if we are not using skinny metadata
(feature enabled by default since btrfs-progs 3.18 and available as of
kernel 3.10).

In these cases, where we don't need neither to update flags nor to set
the key, we only use the delayed extent op structure to set the tree
block's level. This is a waste of memory and besides that, the memory
allocation can fail and can add additional latency.

Instead of using a delayed extent op structure to store the level of
the tree block, use the delayed ref head to store it. This doesn't
change the size of neither structure and helps us avoid allocating
delayed extent ops structures when using the skinny metadata feature
and there's no relocation going on. This also gets rid of a BUG_ON().

For example, for a fs_mark run, with 5 iterations, 8 threads and 100K
files per iteration, before this patch there were 118109 allocations
of delayed extent op structures and after it there were none.

Reviewed-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h b/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h
index 405be46c420f..ef15e998be03 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ struct btrfs_delayed_ref_node {
 
 struct btrfs_delayed_extent_op {
 	struct btrfs_disk_key key;
-	u8 level;
 	bool update_key;
 	bool update_flags;
 	u64 flags_to_set;
@@ -172,6 +171,9 @@ struct btrfs_delayed_ref_head {
 	 */
 	u64 reserved_bytes;
 
+	/* Tree block level, for metadata only. */
+	u8 level;
+
 	/*
 	 * when a new extent is allocated, it is just reserved in memory
 	 * The actual extent isn't inserted into the extent allocation tree
@@ -355,7 +357,7 @@ int btrfs_add_delayed_data_ref(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 			       struct btrfs_ref *generic_ref,
 			       u64 reserved);
 int btrfs_add_delayed_extent_op(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
-				u64 bytenr, u64 num_bytes,
+				u64 bytenr, u64 num_bytes, u8 level,
 				struct btrfs_delayed_extent_op *extent_op);
 void btrfs_merge_delayed_refs(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 			      struct btrfs_delayed_ref_root *delayed_refs,