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David Sterba
9888c3402c btrfs: replace GPL boilerplate by SPDX -- headers
Remove GPL boilerplate text (long, short, one-line) and keep the rest,
ie. personal, company or original source copyright statements. Add the
SPDX header.

Unify the include protection macros to match the file names.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2018-04-12 16:29:46 +02:00
David Sterba
e67c718b5b btrfs: add more __cold annotations
The __cold functions are placed to a special section, as they're
expected to be called rarely. This could help i-cache prefetches or help
compiler to decide which branches are more/less likely to be taken
without any other annotations needed.

Though we can't add more __exit annotations, it's still possible to add
__cold (that's also added with __exit). That way the following function
categories are tagged:

- printf wrappers, error messages
- exit helpers

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2018-03-26 15:09:39 +02:00
David Sterba
e128f9c3f7 btrfs: compression: add helper for type to string conversion
There are several places opencoding this conversion, add a helper now
that we have 3 compression algorithms.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2018-01-22 16:08:16 +01:00
Liu Bo
f5c29bd9db Btrfs: add __init macro to btrfs init functions
Adding __init macro gives kernel a hint that this function is only used
during the initialization phase and its memory resources can be freed up
after.

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2018-01-22 16:08:11 +01:00
Qu Wenruo
eae8d82529 btrfs: Fix wild memory access in compression level parser
[BUG]
Kernel panic when mounting with "-o compress" mount option.
KASAN will report like:
------
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: wild-memory-access in strncmp+0x31/0xc0
Read of size 1 at addr d86735fce994f800 by task mount/662
...
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0xe3/0x175
 kasan_report+0x163/0x370
 __asan_load1+0x47/0x50
 strncmp+0x31/0xc0
 btrfs_compress_str2level+0x20/0x70 [btrfs]
 btrfs_parse_options+0xff4/0x1870 [btrfs]
 open_ctree+0x2679/0x49f0 [btrfs]
 btrfs_mount+0x1b7f/0x1d30 [btrfs]
 mount_fs+0x49/0x190
 vfs_kern_mount.part.29+0xba/0x280
 vfs_kern_mount+0x13/0x20
 btrfs_mount+0x31e/0x1d30 [btrfs]
 mount_fs+0x49/0x190
 vfs_kern_mount.part.29+0xba/0x280
 do_mount+0xaad/0x1a00
 SyS_mount+0x98/0xe0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe
------

[Cause]
For 'compress' and 'compress_force' options, its token doesn't expect
any parameter so its args[0] contains uninitialized data.
Accessing args[0] will cause above wild memory access.

[Fix]
For Opt_compress and Opt_compress_force, set compression level to
the default.

Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ set the default in advance ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-11-27 17:01:11 +01:00
Liu Bo
f82b735936 Btrfs: add write_flags for compression bio
Compression code path has only flaged bios with REQ_OP_WRITE no matter
where the bios come from, but it could be a sync write if fsync starts
this writeback or a normal writeback write if wb kthread starts a
periodic writeback.

It breaks the rule that sync writes and writeback writes need to be
differentiated from each other, because from the POV of block layer,
all bios need to be recognized by these flags in order to do some
management, e.g. throttlling.

This passes writeback_control to compression write path so that it can
send bios with proper flags to block layer.

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-11-15 14:44:31 +01:00
David Sterba
f51d2b5912 btrfs: allow to set compression level for zlib
Preliminary support for setting compression level for zlib, the
following works:

$ mount -o compess=zlib                 # default
$ mount -o compess=zlib0                # same
$ mount -o compess=zlib9                # level 9, slower sync, less data
$ mount -o compess=zlib1                # level 1, faster sync, more data
$ mount -o remount,compress=zlib3	# level set by remount

The compress-force works the same as compress'.  The level is visible in
the same format in /proc/mounts. Level set via file property does not
work yet.

Required patch: "btrfs: prepare for extensions in compression options"

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-11-01 20:45:29 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
e7cdb60fd2 Merge branch 'zstd-minimal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs
Pull zstd support from Chris Mason:
 "Nick Terrell's patch series to add zstd support to the kernel has been
  floating around for a while. After talking with Dave Sterba, Herbert
  and Phillip, we decided to send the whole thing in as one pull
  request.

  zstd is a big win in speed over zlib and in compression ratio over
  lzo, and the compression team here at FB has gotten great results
  using it in production. Nick will continue to update the kernel side
  with new improvements from the open source zstd userland code.

  Nick has a number of benchmarks for the main zstd code in his lib/zstd
  commit:

      I ran the benchmarks on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with 2 cores and 4 GiB
      of RAM. The VM is running on a MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel
      Core i7 processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a SSD. I benchmarked using
      `silesia.tar` [3], which is 211,988,480 B large. Run the following
      commands for the benchmark:

        sudo modprobe zstd_compress_test
        sudo mknod zstd_compress_test c 245 0
        sudo cp silesia.tar zstd_compress_test

      The time is reported by the time of the userland `cp`.
      The MB/s is computed with

        1,536,217,008 B / time(buffer size, hash)

      which includes the time to copy from userland.
      The Adjusted MB/s is computed with

        1,536,217,088 B / (time(buffer size, hash) - time(buffer size, none)).

      The memory reported is the amount of memory the compressor
      requests.

        | Method   | Size (B) | Time (s) | Ratio | MB/s    | Adj MB/s | Mem (MB) |
        |----------|----------|----------|-------|---------|----------|----------|
        | none     | 11988480 |    0.100 |     1 | 2119.88 |        - |        - |
        | zstd -1  | 73645762 |    1.044 | 2.878 |  203.05 |   224.56 |     1.23 |
        | zstd -3  | 66988878 |    1.761 | 3.165 |  120.38 |   127.63 |     2.47 |
        | zstd -5  | 65001259 |    2.563 | 3.261 |   82.71 |    86.07 |     2.86 |
        | zstd -10 | 60165346 |   13.242 | 3.523 |   16.01 |    16.13 |    13.22 |
        | zstd -15 | 58009756 |   47.601 | 3.654 |    4.45 |     4.46 |    21.61 |
        | zstd -19 | 54014593 |  102.835 | 3.925 |    2.06 |     2.06 |    60.15 |
        | zlib -1  | 77260026 |    2.895 | 2.744 |   73.23 |    75.85 |     0.27 |
        | zlib -3  | 72972206 |    4.116 | 2.905 |   51.50 |    52.79 |     0.27 |
        | zlib -6  | 68190360 |    9.633 | 3.109 |   22.01 |    22.24 |     0.27 |
        | zlib -9  | 67613382 |   22.554 | 3.135 |    9.40 |     9.44 |     0.27 |

      I benchmarked zstd decompression using the same method on the same
      machine. The benchmark file is located in the upstream zstd repo
      under `contrib/linux-kernel/zstd_decompress_test.c` [4]. The
      memory reported is the amount of memory required to decompress
      data compressed with the given compression level. If you know the
      maximum size of your input, you can reduce the memory usage of
      decompression irrespective of the compression level.

        | Method   | Time (s) | MB/s    | Adjusted MB/s | Memory (MB) |
        |----------|----------|---------|---------------|-------------|
        | none     |    0.025 | 8479.54 |             - |           - |
        | zstd -1  |    0.358 |  592.15 |        636.60 |        0.84 |
        | zstd -3  |    0.396 |  535.32 |        571.40 |        1.46 |
        | zstd -5  |    0.396 |  535.32 |        571.40 |        1.46 |
        | zstd -10 |    0.374 |  566.81 |        607.42 |        2.51 |
        | zstd -15 |    0.379 |  559.34 |        598.84 |        4.61 |
        | zstd -19 |    0.412 |  514.54 |        547.77 |        8.80 |
        | zlib -1  |    0.940 |  225.52 |        231.68 |        0.04 |
        | zlib -3  |    0.883 |  240.08 |        247.07 |        0.04 |
        | zlib -6  |    0.844 |  251.17 |        258.84 |        0.04 |
        | zlib -9  |    0.837 |  253.27 |        287.64 |        0.04 |

  I ran a long series of tests and benchmarks on the btrfs side and the
  gains are very similar to the core benchmarks Nick ran"

* 'zstd-minimal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
  squashfs: Add zstd support
  btrfs: Add zstd support
  lib: Add zstd modules
  lib: Add xxhash module
2017-09-14 17:30:49 -07:00
Anand Jain
dc2f29212a btrfs: remove unused BTRFS_COMPRESS_LAST
We aren't using this define, so removing it.

Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-08-18 16:36:29 +02:00
Timofey Titovets
c2fcdcdf36 Btrfs: add skeleton code for compression heuristic
Add skeleton code for compresison heuristics. Now it iterates over all
the pages, but in the end always says "yes, compress please", ie it does
not change the current behaviour.

In the future we're going to add various heuristics to analyze the data.
This patch can be used as a baseline for measuring if the effectivness
and performance.

Signed-off-by: Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ enhanced changelog, modified comments ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-08-16 16:12:04 +02:00
Nick Terrell
5c1aab1dd5 btrfs: Add zstd support
Add zstd compression and decompression support to BtrFS. zstd at its
fastest level compresses almost as well as zlib, while offering much
faster compression and decompression, approaching lzo speeds.

I benchmarked btrfs with zstd compression against no compression, lzo
compression, and zlib compression. I benchmarked two scenarios. Copying
a set of files to btrfs, and then reading the files. Copying a tarball
to btrfs, extracting it to btrfs, and then reading the extracted files.
After every operation, I call `sync` and include the sync time.
Between every pair of operations I unmount and remount the filesystem
to avoid caching. The benchmark files can be found in the upstream
zstd source repository under
`contrib/linux-kernel/{btrfs-benchmark.sh,btrfs-extract-benchmark.sh}`
[1] [2].

I ran the benchmarks on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with 2 cores and 4 GiB of RAM.
The VM is running on a MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 processor,
16 GB of RAM, and a SSD.

The first compression benchmark is copying 10 copies of the unzipped
Silesia corpus [3] into a BtrFS filesystem mounted with
`-o compress-force=Method`. The decompression benchmark times how long
it takes to `tar` all 10 copies into `/dev/null`. The compression ratio is
measured by comparing the output of `df` and `du`. See the benchmark file
[1] for details. I benchmarked multiple zstd compression levels, although
the patch uses zstd level 1.

| Method  | Ratio | Compression MB/s | Decompression speed |
|---------|-------|------------------|---------------------|
| None    |  0.99 |              504 |                 686 |
| lzo     |  1.66 |              398 |                 442 |
| zlib    |  2.58 |               65 |                 241 |
| zstd 1  |  2.57 |              260 |                 383 |
| zstd 3  |  2.71 |              174 |                 408 |
| zstd 6  |  2.87 |               70 |                 398 |
| zstd 9  |  2.92 |               43 |                 406 |
| zstd 12 |  2.93 |               21 |                 408 |
| zstd 15 |  3.01 |               11 |                 354 |

The next benchmark first copies `linux-4.11.6.tar` [4] to btrfs. Then it
measures the compression ratio, extracts the tar, and deletes the tar.
Then it measures the compression ratio again, and `tar`s the extracted
files into `/dev/null`. See the benchmark file [2] for details.

| Method | Tar Ratio | Extract Ratio | Copy (s) | Extract (s)| Read (s) |
|--------|-----------|---------------|----------|------------|----------|
| None   |      0.97 |          0.78 |    0.981 |      5.501 |    8.807 |
| lzo    |      2.06 |          1.38 |    1.631 |      8.458 |    8.585 |
| zlib   |      3.40 |          1.86 |    7.750 |     21.544 |   11.744 |
| zstd 1 |      3.57 |          1.85 |    2.579 |     11.479 |    9.389 |

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/btrfs-benchmark.sh
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/btrfs-extract-benchmark.sh
[3] http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia
[4] https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.11.6.tar.xz

zstd source repository: https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2017-08-15 09:02:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8c27cb3566 Merge branch 'for-4.13-part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux
Pull btrfs updates from David Sterba:
 "The core updates improve error handling (mostly related to bios), with
  the usual incremental work on the GFP_NOFS (mis)use removal,
  refactoring or cleanups. Except the two top patches, all have been in
  for-next for an extensive amount of time.

  User visible changes:

   - statx support

   - quota override tunable

   - improved compression thresholds

   - obsoleted mount option alloc_start

  Core updates:

   - bio-related updates:
       - faster bio cloning
       - no allocation failures
       - preallocated flush bios

   - more kvzalloc use, memalloc_nofs protections, GFP_NOFS updates

   - prep work for btree_inode removal

   - dir-item validation

   - qgoup fixes and updates

   - cleanups:
       - removed unused struct members, unused code, refactoring
       - argument refactoring (fs_info/root, caller -> callee sink)
       - SEARCH_TREE ioctl docs"

* 'for-4.13-part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: (115 commits)
  btrfs: Remove false alert when fiemap range is smaller than on-disk extent
  btrfs: Don't clear SGID when inheriting ACLs
  btrfs: fix integer overflow in calc_reclaim_items_nr
  btrfs: scrub: fix target device intialization while setting up scrub context
  btrfs: qgroup: Fix qgroup reserved space underflow by only freeing reserved ranges
  btrfs: qgroup: Introduce extent changeset for qgroup reserve functions
  btrfs: qgroup: Fix qgroup reserved space underflow caused by buffered write and quotas being enabled
  btrfs: qgroup: Return actually freed bytes for qgroup release or free data
  btrfs: qgroup: Cleanup btrfs_qgroup_prepare_account_extents function
  btrfs: qgroup: Add quick exit for non-fs extents
  Btrfs: rework delayed ref total_bytes_pinned accounting
  Btrfs: return old and new total ref mods when adding delayed refs
  Btrfs: always account pinned bytes when dropping a tree block ref
  Btrfs: update total_bytes_pinned when pinning down extents
  Btrfs: make BUG_ON() in add_pinned_bytes() an ASSERT()
  Btrfs: make add_pinned_bytes() take an s64 num_bytes instead of u64
  btrfs: fix validation of XATTR_ITEM dir items
  btrfs: Verify dir_item in iterate_object_props
  btrfs: Check name_len before in btrfs_del_root_ref
  btrfs: Check name_len before reading btrfs_get_name
  ...
2017-07-05 16:41:23 -07:00
Anand Jain
e1ddce71d6 btrfs: reduce arguments for decompress_bio ops
struct compressed_bio pointer can be used instead.

Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-06-19 18:26:00 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
4e4cbee93d block: switch bios to blk_status_t
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
David Sterba
e5d7490236 btrfs: derive maximum output size in the compression implementation
The value of max_out can be calculated from the parameters passed to the
compressors, which is number of pages and the page size, and we don't
have to needlessly pass it around.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-02-28 14:26:36 +01:00
David Sterba
ff7638665c btrfs: export compression buffer limits in a header
Move the buffer limit definitions out of compress_file_range.

Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-02-28 14:26:35 +01:00
David Sterba
4d3a800ebb btrfs: merge nr_pages input and output parameter in compress_pages
The parameter saying how many pages can be allocated at maximum can be
merged with the output page counter, to save some stack space.  The
compression implementation will sink the parameter to a local variable
so everything works as before.

The nr_pages variables can also be simply merged in compress_file_range
into one.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-02-28 14:26:35 +01:00
David Sterba
38c3146408 btrfs: merge length input and output parameter in compress_pages
The length parameter is basically duplicated for input and output in the
top level caller of the compress_pages chain. We can simply use one
variable for that and reduce stack consumption. The compression
implementation will sink the parameter to a local variable so everything
works as before.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-02-28 14:26:35 +01:00
David Sterba
14a3357b40 btrfs: constify buffers used by compression helpers
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2017-02-28 14:26:07 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
974b1adc3b btrfs: use bio iterators for the decompression handlers
Pass the full bio to the decompression routines and use bio iterators
to iterate over the data in the bio.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-11-30 13:45:19 +01:00
Anand Jain
ebb8765b2d btrfs: move btrfs_compression_type to compression.h
So that its better organized.

Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-03-11 17:12:46 +01:00
David Sterba
e8c9f18603 btrfs: constify structs with op functions or static definitions
There are some op tables that can be easily made const, similarly the
sysfs feature and raid tables. This is motivated by PaX CONSTIFY plugin.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
2015-02-16 18:48:44 +01:00
Chris Mason
2f19cad94c btrfs: zero out left over bytes after processing compression streams
Don Bailey noticed that our page zeroing for compression at end-io time
isn't complete.  This reworks a patch from Linus to push the zeroing
into the zlib and lzo specific functions instead of trying to handle the
corners inside btrfs_decompress_buf2page

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Reported-by: Don A. Bailey <donb@securitymouse.com>
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-11-30 09:33:51 -08:00
Eric Sandeen
48a3b6366f btrfs: make static code static & remove dead code
Big patch, but all it does is add statics to functions which
are in fact static, then remove the associated dead-code fallout.

removed functions:

btrfs_iref_to_path()
__btrfs_lookup_delayed_deletion_item()
__btrfs_search_delayed_insertion_item()
__btrfs_search_delayed_deletion_item()
find_eb_for_page()
btrfs_find_block_group()
range_straddles_pages()
extent_range_uptodate()
btrfs_file_extent_length()
btrfs_scrub_cancel_devid()
btrfs_start_transaction_lflush()

btrfs_print_tree() is left because it is used for debugging.
btrfs_start_transaction_lflush() and btrfs_reada_detach() are
left for symmetry.

ulist.c functions are left, another patch will take care of those.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
2013-05-06 15:55:23 -04:00
Jeff Mahoney
143bede527 btrfs: return void in functions without error conditions
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
2012-03-22 01:45:34 +01:00
David Sterba
306e16ce13 btrfs: rename variables clashing with global function names
reported by gcc -Wshadow:
page_index, page_offset, new_inode, dev_name

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
2011-05-02 13:57:19 +02:00
Li Zefan
3a39c18d63 btrfs: Extract duplicate decompress code
Add a common function to copy decompressed data from working buffer
to bio pages.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-12-22 23:15:50 +08:00
Li Zefan
a6fa6fae40 btrfs: Add lzo compression support
Lzo is a much faster compression algorithm than gzib, so would allow
more users to enable transparent compression, and some users can
choose from compression ratio and speed for different applications

Usage:

 # mount -t btrfs -o compress[=<zlib,lzo>] dev /mnt
or
 # mount -t btrfs -o compress-force[=<zlib,lzo>] dev /mnt

"-o compress" without argument is still allowed for compatability.

Compatibility:

If we mount a filesystem with lzo compression, it will not be able be
mounted in old kernels. One reason is, otherwise btrfs will directly
dump compressed data, which sits in inline extent, to user.

Performance:

The test copied a linux source tarball (~400M) from an ext4 partition
to the btrfs partition, and then extracted it.

(time in second)
           lzo        zlib        nocompress
copy:      10.6       21.7        14.9
extract:   70.1       94.4        66.6

(data size in MB)
           lzo        zlib        nocompress
copy:      185.87     108.69      394.49
extract:   193.80     132.36      381.21

Changelog:

v1 -> v2:
- Select LZO_COMPRESS and LZO_DECOMPRESS in btrfs Kconfig.
- Add incompability flag.
- Fix error handling in compress code.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-12-22 23:15:47 +08:00
Li Zefan
261507a02c btrfs: Allow to add new compression algorithm
Make the code aware of compression type, instead of always assuming
zlib compression.

Also make the zlib workspace function as common code for all
compression types.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-12-22 23:15:45 +08:00
Chris Mason
c8b978188c Btrfs: Add zlib compression support
This is a large change for adding compression on reading and writing,
both for inline and regular extents.  It does some fairly large
surgery to the writeback paths.

Compression is off by default and enabled by mount -o compress.  Even
when the -o compress mount option is not used, it is possible to read
compressed extents off the disk.

If compression for a given set of pages fails to make them smaller, the
file is flagged to avoid future compression attempts later.

* While finding delalloc extents, the pages are locked before being sent down
to the delalloc handler.  This allows the delalloc handler to do complex things
such as cleaning the pages, marking them writeback and starting IO on their
behalf.

* Inline extents are inserted at delalloc time now.  This allows us to compress
the data before inserting the inline extent, and it allows us to insert
an inline extent that spans multiple pages.

* All of the in-memory extent representations (extent_map.c, ordered-data.c etc)
are changed to record both an in-memory size and an on disk size, as well
as a flag for compression.

From a disk format point of view, the extent pointers in the file are changed
to record the on disk size of a given extent and some encoding flags.
Space in the disk format is allocated for compression encoding, as well
as encryption and a generic 'other' field.  Neither the encryption or the
'other' field are currently used.

In order to limit the amount of data read for a single random read in the
file, the size of a compressed extent is limited to 128k.  This is a
software only limit, the disk format supports u64 sized compressed extents.

In order to limit the ram consumed while processing extents, the uncompressed
size of a compressed extent is limited to 256k.  This is a software only limit
and will be subject to tuning later.

Checksumming is still done on compressed extents, and it is done on the
uncompressed version of the data.  This way additional encodings can be
layered on without having to figure out which encoding to checksum.

Compression happens at delalloc time, which is basically singled threaded because
it is usually done by a single pdflush thread.  This makes it tricky to
spread the compression load across all the cpus on the box.  We'll have to
look at parallel pdflush walks of dirty inodes at a later time.

Decompression is hooked into readpages and it does spread across CPUs nicely.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-10-29 14:49:59 -04:00