xfs: constrain dirty buffers while formatting a staged btree

Constrain the number of dirty buffers that are locked by the btree
staging code at any given time by establishing a threshold at which we
put them all on the delwri queue and push them to disk.  This limits
memory consumption while writing out new btrees.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

2 files changed, 49 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree_staging.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree_staging.c
index cd409a2ee87b..0c978a31e284 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree_staging.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree_staging.c
@@ -333,24 +333,41 @@ xfs_btree_commit_ifakeroot(
 /*
  * Put a btree block that we're loading onto the ordered list and release it.
  * The btree blocks will be written to disk when bulk loading is finished.
+ * If we reach the dirty buffer threshold, flush them to disk before
+ * continuing.
  */
-static void
+static int
 xfs_btree_bload_drop_buf(
-	struct list_head	*buffers_list,
-	struct xfs_buf		**bpp)
+	struct xfs_btree_bload		*bbl,
+	struct list_head		*buffers_list,
+	struct xfs_buf			**bpp)
 {
-	if (*bpp == NULL)
-		return;
+	struct xfs_buf			*bp = *bpp;
+	int				error;
+
+	if (!bp)
+		return 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * Mark this buffer XBF_DONE (i.e. uptodate) so that a subsequent
 	 * xfs_buf_read will not pointlessly reread the contents from the disk.
 	 */
-	(*bpp)->b_flags |= XBF_DONE;
+	bp->b_flags |= XBF_DONE;
 
-	xfs_buf_delwri_queue_here(*bpp, buffers_list);
-	xfs_buf_relse(*bpp);
+	xfs_buf_delwri_queue_here(bp, buffers_list);
+	xfs_buf_relse(bp);
 	*bpp = NULL;
+	bbl->nr_dirty++;
+
+	if (!bbl->max_dirty || bbl->nr_dirty < bbl->max_dirty)
+		return 0;
+
+	error = xfs_buf_delwri_submit(buffers_list);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
+
+	bbl->nr_dirty = 0;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -422,7 +439,10 @@ xfs_btree_bload_prep_block(
 	 */
 	if (*blockp)
 		xfs_btree_set_sibling(cur, *blockp, &new_ptr, XFS_BB_RIGHTSIB);
-	xfs_btree_bload_drop_buf(buffers_list, bpp);
+
+	ret = xfs_btree_bload_drop_buf(bbl, buffers_list, bpp);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 
 	/* Initialize the new btree block. */
 	xfs_btree_init_block_cur(cur, new_bp, level, nr_this_block);
@@ -770,6 +790,7 @@ xfs_btree_bload(
 	cur->bc_nlevels = bbl->btree_height;
 	xfs_btree_set_ptr_null(cur, &child_ptr);
 	xfs_btree_set_ptr_null(cur, &ptr);
+	bbl->nr_dirty = 0;
 
 	xfs_btree_bload_level_geometry(cur, bbl, level, nr_this_level,
 			&avg_per_block, &blocks, &blocks_with_extra);
@@ -808,7 +829,10 @@ xfs_btree_bload(
 			xfs_btree_copy_ptrs(cur, &child_ptr, &ptr, 1);
 	}
 	total_blocks += blocks;
-	xfs_btree_bload_drop_buf(&buffers_list, &bp);
+
+	ret = xfs_btree_bload_drop_buf(bbl, &buffers_list, &bp);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
 
 	/* Populate the internal btree nodes. */
 	for (level = 1; level < cur->bc_nlevels; level++) {
@@ -850,7 +874,11 @@ xfs_btree_bload(
 				xfs_btree_copy_ptrs(cur, &first_ptr, &ptr, 1);
 		}
 		total_blocks += blocks;
-		xfs_btree_bload_drop_buf(&buffers_list, &bp);
+
+		ret = xfs_btree_bload_drop_buf(bbl, &buffers_list, &bp);
+		if (ret)
+			goto out;
+
 		xfs_btree_copy_ptrs(cur, &child_ptr, &first_ptr, 1);
 	}
 
diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree_staging.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree_staging.h
index bd5b3f004823..f0a5007284ef 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree_staging.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree_staging.h
@@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ struct xfs_btree_bload {
 	 * height of the new btree.
 	 */
 	unsigned int			btree_height;
+
+	/*
+	 * Flush the new btree block buffer list to disk after this many blocks
+	 * have been formatted.  Zero prohibits writing any buffers until all
+	 * blocks have been formatted.
+	 */
+	uint16_t			max_dirty;
+
+	/* Number of dirty buffers. */
+	uint16_t			nr_dirty;
 };
 
 int xfs_btree_bload_compute_geometry(struct xfs_btree_cur *cur,