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Filipe Manana
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When flushing reservations we are using btrfs_join_transaction() to get a handle for the current transaction and then commit it to try to release space. However btrfs_join_transaction() has some undesirable consequences: 1) If there's no running transaction, it will create one, and we will commit it right after. This is unnecessary because it will not release any space, and it will result in unnecessary IO and rotation of backup roots in the superblock; 2) If there's a current transaction and that transaction is committing (its state is >= TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_DOING), it will wait for that transaction to almost finish its commit (for its state to be >= TRANS_STATE_UNBLOCKED) and then start and return a new transaction. We will then commit that new transaction, which is pointless because all we wanted was to wait for the current (previous) transaction to fully finish its commit (state == TRANS_STATE_COMPLETED), and by starting and committing a new transaction we are wasting IO too and causing unnecessary rotation of backup roots in the superblock. So improve this by using btrfs_attach_transaction_barrier() instead, which does not create a new transaction if there's none running, and if there's a current transaction that is committing, it will wait for it to fully commit and not create a new transaction. Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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