btrfs: reduce the preemptive flushing threshold to 90%
authorJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:37:15 +0000 (14:37 -0400)
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:19:15 +0000 (13:19 +0200)
commit93c60b17f2b5fca2c5931d7944788d1ef5f25528
tree2e526dc474fbe23434c1bd9628a6a681b2954ee9
parent3736127a3aa805602b7a2ad60ec9cfce68065fbb
btrfs: reduce the preemptive flushing threshold to 90%

The preemptive flushing code was added in order to avoid needing to
synchronously wait for ENOSPC flushing to recover space.  Once we're
almost full however we can essentially flush constantly.  We were using
98% as a threshold to determine if we were simply full, however in
practice this is a really high bar to hit.  For example reports of
systems running into this problem had around 94% usage and thus
continued to flush.  Fix this by lowering the threshold to 90%, which is
a more sane value, especially for smaller file systems.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212185
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.12+
Fixes: 576fa34830af ("btrfs: improve preemptive background space flushing")
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
fs/btrfs/space-info.c