[PATCH 18/19] btrfs: increase the metadata allowance for the free_space_cache

[Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>]

Currently, there is no way for the free space cache to recover from
being serviced by purely bitmaps because the extent threshold is set to
0 in recalculate_thresholds() when we surpass the metadata allowance.

This adds a recovery mechanism by keeping large extents out of the
bitmaps and increases the metadata upper bound to 64KB. The recovery
mechanism bypasses this upper bound, thus making it a soft upper bound.
But, with the bypass being 1MB or greater, it shouldn't add unbounded
overhead.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
---
 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 26 +++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
index 480119016c0d..a0941d281a63 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
 #include "discard.h"
 
 #define BITS_PER_BITMAP		(PAGE_SIZE * 8UL)
-#define MAX_CACHE_BYTES_PER_GIG	SZ_32K
+#define MAX_CACHE_BYTES_PER_GIG	SZ_64K
+#define FORCE_EXTENT_THRESHOLD	SZ_1M
 
 struct btrfs_trim_range {
 	u64 start;
@@ -1686,26 +1687,17 @@ static void recalculate_thresholds(struct btrfs_free_space_ctl *ctl)
 	ASSERT(ctl->total_bitmaps <= max_bitmaps);
 
 	/*
-	 * The goal is to keep the total amount of memory used per 1gb of space
-	 * at or below 32k, so we need to adjust how much memory we allow to be
-	 * used by extent based free space tracking
+	 * We are trying to keep the total amount of memory used per 1gb of
+	 * space to be MAX_CACHE_BYTES_PER_GIG.  However, with a reclamation
+	 * mechanism of pulling extents >= FORCE_EXTENT_THRESHOLD out of
+	 * bitmaps, we may end up using more memory than this.
 	 */
 	if (size < SZ_1G)
 		max_bytes = MAX_CACHE_BYTES_PER_GIG;
 	else
 		max_bytes = MAX_CACHE_BYTES_PER_GIG * div_u64(size, SZ_1G);
 
-	/*
-	 * we want to account for 1 more bitmap than what we have so we can make
-	 * sure we don't go over our overall goal of MAX_CACHE_BYTES_PER_GIG as
-	 * we add more bitmaps.
-	 */
-	bitmap_bytes = (ctl->total_bitmaps + 1) * ctl->unit;
-
-	if (bitmap_bytes >= max_bytes) {
-		ctl->extents_thresh = 0;
-		return;
-	}
+	bitmap_bytes = ctl->total_bitmaps * ctl->unit;
 
 	/*
 	 * we want the extent entry threshold to always be at most 1/2 the max
@@ -2086,6 +2078,10 @@ static bool use_bitmap(struct btrfs_free_space_ctl *ctl,
 		forced = true;
 #endif
 
+	/* this is a way to reclaim large regions from the bitmaps */
+	if (!forced && info->bytes >= FORCE_EXTENT_THRESHOLD)
+		return false;
+
 	/*
 	 * If we are below the extents threshold then we can add this as an
 	 * extent, and don't have to deal with the bitmap
-- 
2.17.1