Btrfs: improve the delayed inode throttling

The delayed inode code batches up changes to the btree in hopes of doing
them in bulk.  As the changes build up, processes kick off worker
threads and wait for them to make progress.

The current code kicks off an async work queue item for each delayed
node, which creates a lot of churn.  It also uses a fixed 1 HZ waiting
period for the throttle, which allows us to build a lot of pending
work and can slow down the commit.

This changes us to watch a sequence counter as it is bumped during the
operations.  We kick off fewer work items and have each work item do
more work.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.h b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.h
index 78b6ad0fc66..1d5c5f7abe3 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ struct btrfs_delayed_root {
 	 */
 	struct list_head prepare_list;
 	atomic_t items;		/* for delayed items */
+	atomic_t items_seq;	/* for delayed items */
 	int nodes;		/* for delayed nodes */
 	wait_queue_head_t wait;
 };
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ static inline void btrfs_init_delayed_root(
 				struct btrfs_delayed_root *delayed_root)
 {
 	atomic_set(&delayed_root->items, 0);
+	atomic_set(&delayed_root->items_seq, 0);
 	delayed_root->nodes = 0;
 	spin_lock_init(&delayed_root->lock);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&delayed_root->wait);