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commit fd0ddbe2509568b00df364156f47561e9f469f15 upstream. Backreference walking, which is used by send to figure if it can issue clone operations instead of write operations, can be very slow and use too much memory when extents have many references. This change simply skips backreference walking when an extent has more than 64 references, in which case we fallback to a write operation instead of a clone operation. This limit is conservative and in practice I observed no signicant slowdown with up to 100 references and still low memory usage up to that limit. This is a temporary workaround until there are speedups in the backref walking code, and as such it does not attempt to add extra interfaces or knobs to tweak the threshold. Reported-by: Atemu <atemu.main@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/CAE4GHgkvqVADtS4AzcQJxo0Q1jKQgKaW3JGp3SGdoinVo=C9eQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#me55dc0987f9cc2acaa54372ce0492c65782be3fa CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+ Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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.