btrfs: avoid starting and committing empty transaction when flushing space
authorFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:57:11 +0000 (16:57 +0100)
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 12:52:18 +0000 (14:52 +0200)
commit2ee70ed19ccd9c95c188816b65dacf3fca1f5565
treeecb35910fc630d8d68cc041c9c1d7d024bce34e9
parent2391245ac2875f784335b9148079c6e73639a5f7
btrfs: avoid starting and committing empty transaction when flushing space

When flushing space and we are in the COMMIT_TRANS state, we join a
transaction with btrfs_join_transaction() and then commit the returned
transaction. However btrfs_join_transaction() starts a new transaction if
there is none currently open, which is pointless since comitting a new,
empty transaction, doesn't achieve anything, it only wastes time, IO and
creates an unnecessary rotation of the backup roots.

So use btrfs_attach_transaction_barrier() to avoid starting a new
transaction. This also waits for any ongoing transaction that is
committing (state >= TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_DOING) to fully complete, and
therefore wait for all the extents that were pinned during the
transaction's lifetime to be unpinned.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
fs/btrfs/space-info.c