On 09/01/2016 10:58 PM, Wang Xiaoguang wrote:
In btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space(), we use ticket's address to
determine whether asynchronous metadata reclaim work is making progress.

        ticket = list_first_entry(&space_info->tickets,
                                  struct reserve_ticket, list);
        if (last_ticket == ticket) {
                flush_state++;
        } else {
                last_ticket = ticket;
                flush_state = FLUSH_DELAYED_ITEMS_NR;
                if (commit_cycles)
                        commit_cycles--;
        }

But indeed it's wrong, we should not rely on local variable's address to
do this check, because addresses may be same. In my test environment, I
dd one 168MB file in a 256MB fs, found that for this file, every time
wait_reserve_ticket() called, local variable ticket's address is same,

For above codes, assume a previous ticket's address is addrA, last_ticket
is addrA. Btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space() finished this ticket and
wake up it, then another ticket is added, but with the same address addrA,
now last_ticket will be same to current ticket, then current ticket's flush
work will start from current flush_state, not initial FLUSH_DELAYED_ITEMS_NR,
which may result in some enospc issues(I have seen this in my test machine).

Signed-off-by: Wang Xiaoguang <[email protected]>

We want to track the progress of the individual tickets, not whether or not we make progress on the space_info, so instead store the global ticket id in space_info and store the individual ticket_id in the ticket itself, and use that as the last_tickets_id. Thanks,

Josef
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