[PATCH v5 0/4] btrfs: sysfs: set / query btrfs chunk size
From: Stefan Roesch <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-09 22:02:30
Motivation:
The btrfs allocator is currently not ideal for all workloads. It tends
to suffer from overallocating data block groups and underallocating
metadata block groups. This results in filesystems becoming read-only
even though there is plenty of "free" space.
This is naturally confusing and distressing to users.
Patches:
1) Store the chunk size in the btrfs_space_info structure
2) Add a sysfs entry to read and write the above information
3) Add a sysfs entry to force a space allocation
4) Increase the default size of the metadata chunk allocation to 5GB
for volumes greater than 50GB.
Testing:
A new test is being added to the xfstest suite. For reference the
corresponding patch has the title:
[PATCH] btrfs: Test chunk allocation with different sizes
In addition also manual testing has been performed.
- Run xfstests with the changes and the new test. It does not
show new diffs.
- Test with storage devices 10G, 20G, 30G, 50G, 60G
- Default allocation
- Increase of chunk size
- If the stripe size is > the free space, it allocates
free space - 1MB. The 1MB is left as free space.
- If the device has a storage size > 50G, it uses a 5GB
chunk size for new allocations.
Stefan Roesch (4):
btrfs: store chunk size in space-info struct.
btrfs: expose chunk size in sysfs.
btrfs: add force_chunk_alloc sysfs entry to force allocation
btrfs: increase metadata alloc size to 5GB for volumes > 50GB
fs/btrfs/space-info.c | 41 ++++++++++++
fs/btrfs/space-info.h | 3 +
fs/btrfs/sysfs.c | 152 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 28 +++-----
4 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
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V5: - Changed the field name in the btrfs_space_info struct from
default_chunk_size to chunk_size and made it atomic
- Removed the compute_chunk_size_zoned function
- Added further checks when writing /sys/fs/btrfs/<id>/allocation/<type>/chunk_size
- Removed the ability to query /sys/fs/btrfs/<id>/allocation/<type>/force_alloc_chunk
V4: - Patch email contained duplicate entries.
V3: - Rename sysfs entry from stripe_size to chunk_size
- Remove max_chunk_size field in data structure btrfs_space_info
- Rename max_stripe_size field to default_chunk_size in data
structure btrfs_space_info
- Remove max_chunk_size logic
- Use stripe_size = chunk_size
V2:
- Split the patch in 4 patches
- Added checks for zone volumes in sysfs.c
- Replaced the BUG() with ASSERT()
- Changed if with fallthrough
- Removed comments in space-info.h
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