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From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
To: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: Liu Bo <bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: do not wait after queue async work for delaye refs
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:54:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180912135423.fgl7gbc5lx447h4n@destiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <feaa2619-fdb3-efa3-4e2f-878cd81058c1@suse.com>

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:19:23AM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> [Adding Josef to CC]
> 
> On 12.09.2018 01:06, Liu Bo wrote:
> > If metadata space is hungry, how fast flush_space() can run determines
> > the latency we spend in reserve_metadata_space().
> > 
> > flush_space()
> >    case FLUSH_DELAYED_ITEMS:
> >       ...
> >       btrfs_end_transaction()
> >    case ALLOC_CHUNK:
> >       ...
> >       btrfs_end_transaction()
> > 
> > btrfs_end_transaction()
> >    btrfs_async_run_delayed_refs()
> >        // queue a work to process delayed refs
> >        ...
> >        if (wait)
> >            wait_for_completion()
> > 
> > Although processing delayed refs can add to pinned bytes, pinned bytes
> > can only be used after committing transaction, so waiting async in
> > flush_space() doesn't help.

Nack, but just because I get rid of all of this code in my delayed refs rsv
patchset.  Thanks,

Josef

      reply	other threads:[~2018-09-12 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-11 22:06 [PATCH] Btrfs: do not wait after queue async work for delaye refs Liu Bo
2018-09-12  7:19 ` Nikolay Borisov
2018-09-12 13:54   ` Josef Bacik [this message]

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