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* [PATCH v3 0/4] btrfs: sysfs: set / query btrfs chunk size
@ 2021-10-29 18:28 Stefan Roesch
  2021-10-29 18:28 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] btrfs: store chunk size in space-info struct Stefan Roesch
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From: Stefan Roesch @ 2021-10-29 18:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-btrfs, kernel-team; +Cc: shr

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/write the chunk size 
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 |  51 +++++++++++++++
 fs/btrfs/space-info.h |   3 +
 fs/btrfs/sysfs.c      | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c    |  28 +++-----
 4 files changed, 208 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@fb.com>
---
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
-- 
2.30.2


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