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[BUG] There is a report that autodefrag is defragging single sector, which is completely waste of IO, and no help for defragging: btrfs-cleaner-808 defrag_one_locked_range: root=256 ino=651122 start=0 len=4096 [CAUSE] In defrag_collect_targets(), we check if the current range (A) can be merged with next one (B). If mergeable, we will add range A into target for defrag. However there is a catch for autodefrag, when checking mergeability against range B, we intentionally pass 0 as @newer_than, hoping to get a higher chance to merge with the next extent. But in the next iteration, range B will looked up by defrag_lookup_extent(), with non-zero @newer_than. And if range B is not really newer, it will rejected directly, causing only range A being defragged, while we expect to defrag both range A and B. [FIX] Since the root cause is the difference in check condition of defrag_check_next_extent() and defrag_collect_targets(), we fix it by: 1. Pass @newer_than to defrag_check_next_extent() 2. Pass @extent_thresh to defrag_check_next_extent() This makes the check between defrag_collect_targets() and defrag_check_next_extent() more consistent. While there is still some minor difference, the remaining checks are focus on runtime flags like writeback/delalloc, which are mostly transient and safe to be checked only in defrag_collect_targets(). Link: https://github.com/btrfs/linux/issues/423#issuecomment-1066981856 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.16+ Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.