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Commit 33336c18 authored by Boris Burkov's avatar Boris Burkov Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: preallocate ulist memory for qgroup rsv


When qgroups are enabled, during data reservation, we allocate the
ulist_nodes that track the exact reserved extents with GFP_ATOMIC
unconditionally. This is unnecessary, and we can follow the model
already employed by the struct extent_state we preallocate in the non
qgroups case, which should reduce the risk of allocation failures with
GFP_ATOMIC.

Add a prealloc node to struct ulist which ulist_add will grab when it is
present, and try to allocate it before taking the tree lock while we can
still take advantage of a less strict gfp mask. The lifetime of that
node belongs to the new prealloc field, until it is used, at which point
it belongs to the ulist linked list.

Reviewed-by: default avatarQu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBoris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent 28cb13f2
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