btrfs: avoid starting and committing empty transaction when flushing space

When flushing space and we are in the COMMIT_TRANS state, we join a
transaction with btrfs_join_transaction() and then commit the returned
transaction. However btrfs_join_transaction() starts a new transaction if
there is none currently open, which is pointless since comitting a new,
empty transaction, doesn't achieve anything, it only wastes time, IO and
creates an unnecessary rotation of the backup roots.

So use btrfs_attach_transaction_barrier() to avoid starting a new
transaction. This also waits for any ongoing transaction that is
committing (state >= TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_DOING) to fully complete, and
therefore wait for all the extents that were pinned during the
transaction's lifetime to be unpinned.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
index 2db92a201697..17c86db7b1b1 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
@@ -814,9 +814,18 @@ static void flush_space(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 		break;
 	case COMMIT_TRANS:
 		ASSERT(current->journal_info == NULL);
-		trans = btrfs_join_transaction(root);
+		/*
+		 * We don't want to start a new transaction, just attach to the
+		 * current one or wait it fully commits in case its commit is
+		 * happening at the moment. Note: we don't use a nostart join
+		 * because that does not wait for a transaction to fully commit
+		 * (only for it to be unblocked, state TRANS_STATE_UNBLOCKED).
+		 */
+		trans = btrfs_attach_transaction_barrier(root);
 		if (IS_ERR(trans)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(trans);
+			if (ret == -ENOENT)
+				ret = 0;
 			break;
 		}
 		ret = btrfs_commit_transaction(trans);