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Commit 5d6f0e98 authored by Filipe Manana's avatar Filipe Manana Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: stop locking the source extent range during reflink

Nowadays before starting a reflink operation we do this:

1) Take the VFS lock of the inodes in exclusive mode (a rw semaphore);

2) Take the  mmap lock of the inodes (struct btrfs_inode::i_mmap_lock);

3) Flush all delalloc in the source and target ranges;

4) Wait for all ordered extents in the source and target ranges to
   complete;

5) Lock the source and destination ranges in the inodes' io trees.

In step 5 we lock the source range because:

1) We needed to serialize against mmap writes, but that is not needed
   anymore because nowadays we do that through the inode's i_mmap_lock
   (step 2). This happens since commit 8c99516a ("btrfs: exclude mmaps
   while doing remap");

2) To serialize against a concurrent relocation and avoid generating
   a delayed ref for an extent that was just dropped by relocation, see
   commit d8b55242

 ("Btrfs: fix race between reflink/dedupe and
   relocation").

Locking the source range however blocks any concurrent reads for that
range and makes test case generic/733 fail.

So instead of locking the source range during reflinks, make relocation
read lock the inode's i_mmap_lock, so that it serializes with a concurrent
reflink while still able to run concurrently with mmap writes and allow
concurrent reads too.

Reviewed-by: default avatarBoris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent 4a43d735
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