Brian Foster f03c78f397 xfs: include an allocfree res for inobt modifications
Analysis of recent reports of log reservation overruns and code
inspection has uncovered that the reservations associated with inode
operations may not cover the worst case scenarios. In particular,
many cases only include one allocfree res. for a particular
operation even though said operations may also entail AGFL fixups
and inode btree block allocations in addition to the actual inode
chunk allocation. This can easily turn into two or three block
allocations (or frees) per operation.

In theory, the only way to define the worst case reservation is to
include an allocfree res for each individual allocation in a
transaction. Since that is impractical (we can perform multiple agfl
fixups per tx and not every allocation results in a full tree
operation), we need to find a reasonable compromise that addresses
the deficiency in practice without blowing out the size of the
transactions.

Since the inode btrees are not filled by the AGFL, record insertion
and removal can directly result in block allocations and frees
depending on the shape of the tree. These allocations and frees
occur in the same transaction context as the inobt update itself,
but are separate from the allocation/free that might be required for
an inode chunk. Therefore, it makes sense to assume that an [f]inobt
insert/remove can directly result in one or more block allocations
on behalf of the tree.

Refactor the inode transaction reservations to include one allocfree
res. per inode btree modification to cover allocations required by
the tree itself. This separates the reservation required to allocate
the inode chunk from the reservation required for inobt record
insertion/removal. Apply the same logic to the finobt. This results
in killing off the finobt modify condition because we no longer
assume that the broader transaction reservation will cover finobt
block allocations and finobt shape changes can occur in either of
the inobt allocation or modify situations.

Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2018-01-08 10:41:37 -08:00
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