Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] xfs: set aside allocation btree blocks from block reservation

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:17:07PM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> The blocks used for allocation btrees (bnobt and countbt) are
> technically considered free space. This is because as free space is
> used, allocbt blocks are removed and naturally become available for
> traditional allocation. However, this means that a significant
> portion of free space may consist of in-use btree blocks if free
> space is severely fragmented.
> 
> On large filesystems with large perag reservations, this can lead to
> a rare but nasty condition where a significant amount of physical
> free space is available, but the majority of actual usable blocks
> consist of in-use allocbt blocks. We have a record of a (~12TB, 32
> AG) filesystem with multiple AGs in a state with ~2.5GB or so free
> blocks tracked across ~300 total allocbt blocks, but effectively at
> 100% full because the the free space is entirely consumed by
> refcountbt perag reservation.
> 
> Such a large perag reservation is by design on large filesystems.
> The problem is that because the free space is so fragmented, this AG
> contributes the 300 or so allocbt blocks to the global counters as
> free space. If this pattern repeats across enough AGs, the
> filesystem lands in a state where global block reservation can
> outrun physical block availability. For example, a streaming
> buffered write on the affected filesystem continues to allow delayed
> allocation beyond the point where writeback starts to fail due to
> physical block allocation failures. The expected behavior is for the
> delalloc block reservation to fail gracefully with -ENOSPC before
> physical block allocation failure is a possibility.
> 
> To address this problem, introduce an in-core counter to track the
> sum of all allocbt blocks in use by the filesystem. Use the new
> counter to set these blocks aside at reservation time and thus
> ensure they cannot be reserved until truly available. Since this is
> only necessary when perag reservations are active and the counter
> requires a read of each AGF to fully populate, only enforce on perag
> res enabled filesystems. This allows initialization of the counter
> at ->pagf_init time because the perag reservation init code reads
> each AGF at mount time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c       | 12 ++++++++++++
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc_btree.c |  2 ++
>  fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c              | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h              |  6 ++++++
>  4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> index 0c623d3c1036..9fa378d2724e 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> @@ -3036,6 +3036,7 @@ xfs_alloc_read_agf(
>  	struct xfs_agf		*agf;		/* ag freelist header */
>  	struct xfs_perag	*pag;		/* per allocation group data */
>  	int			error;
> +	uint32_t		allocbt_blks;
>  
>  	trace_xfs_alloc_read_agf(mp, agno);
>  
> @@ -3066,6 +3067,17 @@ xfs_alloc_read_agf(
>  		pag->pagf_refcount_level = be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_refcount_level);
>  		pag->pagf_init = 1;
>  		pag->pagf_agflreset = xfs_agfl_needs_reset(mp, agf);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Update the global in-core allocbt block counter. Filter
> +		 * rmapbt blocks from the on-disk counter because those are
> +		 * managed by perag reservation.
> +		 */
> +		if (pag->pagf_btreeblks > be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_rmap_blocks)) {
> +			allocbt_blks = pag->pagf_btreeblks -
> +					be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_rmap_blocks);
> +			atomic64_add(allocbt_blks, &mp->m_allocbt_blks);

Does growfs call xfs_alloc_read_agf to set pagf_init in the perag
structure when it adds AGs to the filesystem?  I don't /think/ that's
a problem for this use case (since allocbt_blks should be 0 on a freshly
initialized AG) but i was a little surprised to see block reservation
bits here.

The other thing is that online repair (what little of it is in the
kernel currently) can set pagf_init = 0; is that a problem?

--D

> +		}
>  	}
>  #ifdef DEBUG
>  	else if (!XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp)) {
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc_btree.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc_btree.c
> index 8e01231b308e..9f5a45f7baed 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc_btree.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc_btree.c
> @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ xfs_allocbt_alloc_block(
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> +	atomic64_inc(&cur->bc_mp->m_allocbt_blks);
>  	xfs_extent_busy_reuse(cur->bc_mp, cur->bc_ag.agno, bno, 1, false);
>  
>  	xfs_trans_agbtree_delta(cur->bc_tp, 1);
> @@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ xfs_allocbt_free_block(
>  	if (error)
>  		return error;
>  
> +	atomic64_dec(&cur->bc_mp->m_allocbt_blks);
>  	xfs_extent_busy_insert(cur->bc_tp, be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_seqno), bno, 1,
>  			      XFS_EXTENT_BUSY_SKIP_DISCARD);
>  	xfs_trans_agbtree_delta(cur->bc_tp, -1);
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> index 1c97b155a8ee..29f97e909607 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> @@ -1176,6 +1176,7 @@ xfs_mod_fdblocks(
>  	int64_t			lcounter;
>  	long long		res_used;
>  	s32			batch;
> +	uint64_t		set_aside;
>  
>  	if (delta > 0) {
>  		/*
> @@ -1215,8 +1216,23 @@ xfs_mod_fdblocks(
>  	else
>  		batch = XFS_FDBLOCKS_BATCH;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Set aside allocbt blocks because these blocks are tracked as free
> +	 * space but not available for allocation. Technically this means that a
> +	 * single reservation cannot consume all remaining free space, but the
> +	 * ratio of allocbt blocks to usable free blocks should be rather small.
> +	 * The tradeoff without this is that filesystems that maintain high
> +	 * perag block reservations can over reserve physical block availability
> +	 * and fail physical allocation, which leads to much more serious
> +	 * problems (i.e. transaction abort, pagecache discards, etc.) than
> +	 * slightly premature -ENOSPC.
> +	 */
> +	set_aside = mp->m_alloc_set_aside;
> +	if (mp->m_has_agresv)
> +		set_aside += atomic64_read(&mp->m_allocbt_blks);
> +
>  	percpu_counter_add_batch(&mp->m_fdblocks, delta, batch);
> -	if (__percpu_counter_compare(&mp->m_fdblocks, mp->m_alloc_set_aside,
> +	if (__percpu_counter_compare(&mp->m_fdblocks, set_aside,
>  				     XFS_FDBLOCKS_BATCH) >= 0) {
>  		/* we had space! */
>  		return 0;
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> index 489d9b2c53d9..041f437dc117 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> @@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
>  	 * extents or anything related to the rt device.
>  	 */
>  	struct percpu_counter	m_delalloc_blks;
> +	/*
> +	 * Global count of allocation btree blocks in use across all AGs. Only
> +	 * used when perag reservation is enabled. Helps prevent block
> +	 * reservation from attempting to reserve allocation btree blocks.
> +	 */
> +	atomic64_t		m_allocbt_blks;
>  
>  	struct radix_tree_root	m_perag_tree;	/* per-ag accounting info */
>  	spinlock_t		m_perag_lock;	/* lock for m_perag_tree */
> -- 
> 2.26.2
>