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[v2,36/42] btrfs: disable inline extent creation for subpage

Message ID 20210427230349.369603-37-wqu@suse.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series btrfs: add data write support for subpage | expand

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Qu Wenruo April 27, 2021, 11:03 p.m. UTC
[BUG]
When running the following fsx command (extracted from generic/127) on
subpage btrfs, it can create inline extent with regular extents:

	fsx -q -l 262144 -o 65536 -S 191110531 -N 9057 -R -W $mnt/file > /tmp/fsx

The offending extent would look like:

        item 9 key (257 INODE_REF 256) itemoff 15703 itemsize 14
                index 2 namelen 4 name: file
        item 10 key (257 EXTENT_DATA 0) itemoff 14975 itemsize 728
                generation 7 type 0 (inline)
                inline extent data size 707 ram_bytes 707 compression 0 (none)
        item 11 key (257 EXTENT_DATA 4096) itemoff 14922 itemsize 53
                generation 7 type 2 (prealloc)
                prealloc data disk byte 102346752 nr 4096
                prealloc data offset 0 nr 4096

[CAUSE]
For subpage btrfs, the writeback is triggered in page unit, which means,
even if we just want to writeback range [16K, 20K) for 64K page system,
we will still try to writeback any dirty sector of range [0, 64K).

This is never a problem if sectorsize == PAGE_SIZE, but for subpage,
this can cause unexpected problems.

For above test case, the last several operations from fsx are:

 9055 trunc      from 0x40000 to 0x2c3
 9057 falloc     from 0x164c to 0x19d2 (0x386 bytes)

In operation 9055, we dirtied sector [0, 4096), then in falloc, we call
btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, start=4096, len=4096), only expecting to
writeback any dirty data in [4096, 8192), but nothing else.

Unfortunately, in subpage case, above btrfs_wait_ordered_range() will
trigger writeback of the range [0, 64K), which includes the data at [0,
4096).

And since at the call site, we haven't yet increased i_size, which is
still 707, this means cow_file_range() can insert an inline extent.

Resulting above inline + regular extent.

[WORKAROUND]
I don't really have any good short-term solution yet, as this means all
operations that would trigger writeback need to be reviewed for any
isize change.

So here I choose to disable inline extent creation for subpage case as a
workaround.
We have done tons of work just to avoid such extent, so I don't to
create an exception just for subpage.

This only affects inline extent creation, btrfs subpage support has no
problem reading existing inline extents at all.

Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/inode.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Qu Wenruo May 4, 2021, 4:28 a.m. UTC | #1
On 2021/4/28 上午7:03, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> [BUG]
> When running the following fsx command (extracted from generic/127) on
> subpage btrfs, it can create inline extent with regular extents:
> 
> 	fsx -q -l 262144 -o 65536 -S 191110531 -N 9057 -R -W $mnt/file > /tmp/fsx
> 
> The offending extent would look like:
> 
>          item 9 key (257 INODE_REF 256) itemoff 15703 itemsize 14
>                  index 2 namelen 4 name: file
>          item 10 key (257 EXTENT_DATA 0) itemoff 14975 itemsize 728
>                  generation 7 type 0 (inline)
>                  inline extent data size 707 ram_bytes 707 compression 0 (none)
>          item 11 key (257 EXTENT_DATA 4096) itemoff 14922 itemsize 53
>                  generation 7 type 2 (prealloc)
>                  prealloc data disk byte 102346752 nr 4096
>                  prealloc data offset 0 nr 4096
> 
> [CAUSE]
> For subpage btrfs, the writeback is triggered in page unit, which means,
> even if we just want to writeback range [16K, 20K) for 64K page system,
> we will still try to writeback any dirty sector of range [0, 64K).
> 
> This is never a problem if sectorsize == PAGE_SIZE, but for subpage,
> this can cause unexpected problems.
> 
> For above test case, the last several operations from fsx are:
> 
>   9055 trunc      from 0x40000 to 0x2c3
>   9057 falloc     from 0x164c to 0x19d2 (0x386 bytes)

With more investigation into this specific problem, it turns out it's 
really something specific to falloc() (and maybe reflink)

> 
> In operation 9055, we dirtied sector [0, 4096), then in falloc, we call
> btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, start=4096, len=4096), only expecting to
> writeback any dirty data in [4096, 8192), but nothing else.

This part still stands.

> 
> Unfortunately, in subpage case, above btrfs_wait_ordered_range() will
> trigger writeback of the range [0, 64K), which includes the data at [0,
> 4096).

But the problem is really in the sequence of btrfs_wait_ordered_range() 
and btrfs_cont_expand().

Currently, we call btrfs_cont_expand() first, then 
btrfs_wait_ordered_range(), which leads to the inline extent then 
regular extent.

But the truth is, if we just call btrfs_wait_ordered_range() then 
btrfs_cont_expand() we will no longer got the problem.
As btrfs_wait_ordered_range() will writeback the first sector as inline, 
then btrfs_cont_expand() re-dirty the first sector, so that it will be 
re-written as regular extent, after we enlarge the isize.

I also checked reflink, which is doing the same cont_expand() then 
wait_ordered_extent().

AFAIK we could just change the sequence so we don't need to disable 
inline extent completely.

But I'm not yet 100% sure, thus I'd prefer to make btrfs-check to report 
such inline + regular layout as an error, then do more tests to make 
sure it will work as expected.

Thanks,
Qu

> 
> And since at the call site, we haven't yet increased i_size, which is
> still 707, this means cow_file_range() can insert an inline extent.
> 
> Resulting above inline + regular extent.
> 
> [WORKAROUND]
> I don't really have any good short-term solution yet, as this means all
> operations that would trigger writeback need to be reviewed for any
> isize change.
> 
> So here I choose to disable inline extent creation for subpage case as a
> workaround.
> We have done tons of work just to avoid such extent, so I don't to
> create an exception just for subpage.
> 
> This only affects inline extent creation, btrfs subpage support has no
> problem reading existing inline extents at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
> ---
>   fs/btrfs/inode.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> index fd648f2c0242..a2ac8d6eeba5 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> @@ -663,7 +663,11 @@ static noinline int compress_file_range(struct async_chunk *async_chunk)
>   		}
>   	}
>   cont:
> -	if (start == 0) {
> +	/*
> +	 * Check cow_file_range() for why we don't even try to create
> +	 * inline extent for subpage case.
> +	 */
> +	if (start == 0 && fs_info->sectorsize == PAGE_SIZE) {
>   		/* lets try to make an inline extent */
>   		if (ret || total_in < actual_end) {
>   			/* we didn't compress the entire range, try
> @@ -1061,7 +1065,17 @@ static noinline int cow_file_range(struct btrfs_inode *inode,
>   
>   	inode_should_defrag(inode, start, end, num_bytes, SZ_64K);
>   
> -	if (start == 0) {
> +	/*
> +	 * Due to the page size limit, for subpage we can only trigger the
> +	 * writeback for the dirty sectors of page, that means data writeback
> +	 * is doing more writeback than what we want.
> +	 *
> +	 * This is especially unexpected for some call sites like fallocate,
> +	 * where we only increase isize after everything is done.
> +	 * This means we can trigger inline extent even we didn't want.
> +	 * So here we skip inline extent creation completely.
> +	 */
> +	if (start == 0 && fs_info->sectorsize == PAGE_SIZE) {
>   		/* lets try to make an inline extent */
>   		ret = cow_file_range_inline(inode, start, end, 0,
>   					    BTRFS_COMPRESS_NONE, NULL);
>
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diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index fd648f2c0242..a2ac8d6eeba5 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -663,7 +663,11 @@  static noinline int compress_file_range(struct async_chunk *async_chunk)
 		}
 	}
 cont:
-	if (start == 0) {
+	/*
+	 * Check cow_file_range() for why we don't even try to create
+	 * inline extent for subpage case.
+	 */
+	if (start == 0 && fs_info->sectorsize == PAGE_SIZE) {
 		/* lets try to make an inline extent */
 		if (ret || total_in < actual_end) {
 			/* we didn't compress the entire range, try
@@ -1061,7 +1065,17 @@  static noinline int cow_file_range(struct btrfs_inode *inode,
 
 	inode_should_defrag(inode, start, end, num_bytes, SZ_64K);
 
-	if (start == 0) {
+	/*
+	 * Due to the page size limit, for subpage we can only trigger the
+	 * writeback for the dirty sectors of page, that means data writeback
+	 * is doing more writeback than what we want.
+	 *
+	 * This is especially unexpected for some call sites like fallocate,
+	 * where we only increase isize after everything is done.
+	 * This means we can trigger inline extent even we didn't want.
+	 * So here we skip inline extent creation completely.
+	 */
+	if (start == 0 && fs_info->sectorsize == PAGE_SIZE) {
 		/* lets try to make an inline extent */
 		ret = cow_file_range_inline(inode, start, end, 0,
 					    BTRFS_COMPRESS_NONE, NULL);