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[Background]
Btrfs qgroup uses two types of reserved space for METADATA space,
PERTRANS and PREALLOC.
PERTRANS is metadata space reserved for each transaction started by
btrfs_start_transaction().
While PREALLOC is for delalloc, where we reserve space before joining a
transaction, and finally it will be converted to PERTRANS after the
writeback is done.
[Inconsistency]
However there is inconsistency in how we handle PREALLOC metadata space.
The most obvious one is:
In btrfs_buffered_write():
btrfs_delalloc_release_extents(BTRFS_I(inode), reserve_bytes, true);
We always free qgroup PREALLOC meta space.
While in btrfs_truncate_block():
btrfs_delalloc_release_extents(BTRFS_I(inode), blocksize, (ret != 0));
We only free qgroup PREALLOC meta space when something went wrong.
[The Correct Behavior]
The correct behavior should be the one in btrfs_buffered_write(), we
should always free PREALLOC metadata space.
The reason is, the btrfs_delalloc_* mechanism works by:
- Reserve metadata first, even it's not necessary
In btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata()
- Free the unused metadata space
Normally in:
btrfs_delalloc_release_extents()
|- btrfs_inode_rsv_release()
Here we do calculation on whether we should release or not.
E.g. for 64K buffered write, the metadata rsv works like:
/* The first page */
reserve_meta: num_bytes=calc_inode_reservations()
free_meta: num_bytes=0
total: num_bytes=calc_inode_reservations()
/* The first page caused one outstanding extent, thus needs metadata
rsv */
/* The 2nd page */
reserve_meta: num_bytes=calc_inode_reservations()
free_meta: num_bytes=calc_inode_reservations()
total: not changed
/* The 2nd page doesn't cause new outstanding extent, needs no new meta
rsv, so we free what we have reserved */
/* The 3rd~16th pages */
reserve_meta: num_bytes=calc_inode_reservations()
free_meta: num_bytes=calc_inode_reservations()
total: not changed (still space for one outstanding extent)
This means, if btrfs_delalloc_release_extents() determines to free some
space, then those space should be freed NOW.
So for qgroup, we should call btrfs_qgroup_free_meta_prealloc() other
than btrfs_qgroup_convert_reserved_meta().
The good news is:
- The callers are not that hot
The hottest caller is in btrfs_buffered_write(), which is already
fixed by commit
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