Superblock (and its copies) is the only data structure in btrfs which
has a fixed location on a device. Since we cannot overwrite in a
sequential write required zone, we cannot place superblock in the zone.
One easy solution is limiting superblock and copies to be placed only in
conventional zones. However, this method has two downsides: one is
reduced number of superblock copies. The location of the second copy of
superblock is 256GB, which is in a sequential write required zone on
typical devices in the market today. So, the number of superblock and
copies is limited to be two. Second downside is that we cannot support
devices which have no conventional zones at all.
To solve these two problems, we employ superblock log writing. It uses
two adjacent zones as a circular buffer to write updated superblocks.
Once the first zone is filled up, start writing into the second one.
Then, when both zones are filled up and before starting to write to the
first zone again, it reset the first zone.
We can determine the position of the latest superblock by reading write
pointer information from a device. One corner case is when both zones
are full. For this situation, we read out the last superblock of each
zone, and compare them to determine which zone is older.
The following zones are reserved as the circular buffer on ZONED btrfs.
- The primary superblock: zones 0 and 1
- The first copy: zones 16 and 17
- The second copy: zones 1024 or zone at 256GB which is minimum, and
next to it
If these reserved zones are conventional, superblock is written fixed at
the start of the zone without logging.
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
As updates to the space cache v1 are in-place, the space cache cannot be
located over sequential zones and there is no guarantees that the device
will have enough conventional zones to store this cache. Resolve this
problem by disabling completely the space cache v1. This does not
introduce any problems with sequential block groups: all the free space
is located after the allocation pointer and no free space before the
pointer. There is no need to have such cache.
Note: we can technically use free-space-tree (space cache v2) on ZONED
mode. But, since ZONED mode now always allocates extents in a block
group sequentially regardless of underlying device zone type, it's no
use to enable and maintain the tree.
For the same reason, NODATACOW is also disabled.
In summary, ZONED will disable:
| Disabled features | Reason |
|-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| RAID/DUP | Cannot handle two zone append writes to different |
| | zones |
|-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| space_cache (v1) | In-place updating |
| NODATACOW | In-place updating |
|-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| fallocate | Reserved extent will be a write hole |
|-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------|
| MIXED_BG | Allocated metadata region will be write holes for |
| | data writes |
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The zone append write command has a maximum IO size restriction it
accepts. This is because a zone append write command cannot be split, as
we ask the device to place the data into a specific target zone and the
device responds with the actual written location of the data.
Introduce max_zone_append_size to zone_info and fs_info to track the
value, so we can limit all I/O to a zoned block device that we want to
write using the zone append command to the device's limits.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Introduce function btrfs_check_zoned_mode() to check if ZONED flag is
enabled on the file system and if the file system consists of zoned
devices with equal zone size.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
If a zoned block device is found, get its zone information (number of
zones and zone size). To avoid costly run-time zone report
commands to test the device zones type during block allocation, attach
the seq_zones bitmap to the device structure to indicate if a zone is
sequential or accept random writes. Also it attaches the empty_zones
bitmap to indicate if a zone is empty or not.
This patch also introduces the helper function btrfs_dev_is_sequential()
to test if the zone storing a block is a sequential write required zone
and btrfs_dev_is_empty_zone() to test if the zone is a empty zone.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
