btrfs: use tagged writepage to mitigate livelock of snapshot

Snapshot is expected to be fast. But if there are writers steadily
creating dirty pages in our subvolume, the snapshot may take a very long
time to complete. To fix the problem, we use tagged writepage for
snapshot flusher as we do in the generic write_cache_pages(), so we can
omit pages dirtied after the snapshot command.

This does not change the semantics regarding which data get to the
snapshot, if there are pages being dirtied during the snapshotting
operation.  There's a sync called before snapshot is taken in old/new
case, any IO in flight just after that may be in the snapshot but this
depends on other system effects that might still sync the IO.

We do a simple snapshot speed test on a Intel D-1531 box:

fio --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32 --bs=4k --rw=write --size=64G
--direct=0 --thread=1 --numjobs=1 --time_based --runtime=120
--filename=/mnt/sub/testfile --name=job1 --group_reporting & sleep 5;
time btrfs sub snap -r /mnt/sub /mnt/snap; killall fio

original: 1m58sec
patched:  6.54sec

This is the best case for this patch since for a sequential write case,
we omit nearly all pages dirtied after the snapshot command.

For a multi writers, random write test:

fio --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32 --bs=4k --rw=randwrite --size=64G
--direct=0 --thread=1 --numjobs=4 --time_based --runtime=120
--filename=/mnt/sub/testfile --name=job1 --group_reporting & sleep 5;
time btrfs sub snap -r /mnt/sub /mnt/snap; killall fio

original: 15.83sec
patched:  10.35sec

The improvement is smaller compared to the sequential write case,
since we omit only half of the pages dirtied after snapshot command.

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Lien <ethanlien@synology.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index c48fcaf4004d..e62824cae00a 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -3170,7 +3170,7 @@ int btrfs_truncate_inode_items(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 			       struct inode *inode, u64 new_size,
 			       u32 min_type);
 
-int btrfs_start_delalloc_inodes(struct btrfs_root *root);
+int btrfs_start_delalloc_snapshot(struct btrfs_root *root);
 int btrfs_start_delalloc_roots(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, int nr);
 int btrfs_set_extent_delalloc(struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 end,
 			      unsigned int extra_bits,