[BUG] There are quite some bug reports of btrfs falling into a ENOSPC trap, where btrfs can't even start a transaction to add new devices.
[CAUSE] Most of the reports are utilize multi-device profiles, like RAID1/RAID10/RAID5/RAID6, and the involved disks have very unbalanced sizes.
It turns out that, the overcommit calculation in btrfs_can_overcommit() is just a factor based calculation, which can't check if devices can really fulfill the requirement for the desired profile.
This makes btrfs_can_overcommit() to be always over-confident about usable space, and when we can't allocate any new metadata chunk but still allow new metadata operations, we fall into the ENOSPC trap and have no way to exit it.
[WORKAROUND] The root fix needs a device layout aware, chunk allocator like available space calculation.
There used to be such patchset submitted to the mail list, but the extra failure mode is tricky to handle for chunk allocation, thus that patchset needs more time to mature.
Meanwhile to prevent such problems reaching more users, workaround the problem by: - Half the over-commit available space reported So that we won't always be that over-confident. But this won't really help if we have extremely unbalanced disk size.
- Don't over-commit if the space info is already full This may already be too late, but still better than doing nothing and believe the over-commit values.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+ Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com --- fs/btrfs/space-info.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c index 475968ccbd1d..e8133ec7e34a 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c @@ -339,6 +339,18 @@ static u64 calc_available_free_space(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, avail >>= 3; else avail >>= 1; + /* + * Since current over-commit calculation is doomed already for + * RAID0/RADI1/RAID10/RAID5/6, we half the availabe space to reduce + * over-commit amount. + * + * This is just a workaround before the device layout aware + * available space calculation arrives. + */ + if ((BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID0 | BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID1_MASK | + BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID10 | BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK) & + profile) + avail >>= 1; return avail; }
@@ -353,6 +365,14 @@ int btrfs_can_overcommit(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, if (space_info->flags & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DATA) return 0;
+ /* + * If we can't allocate new space already, no overcommit is allowed. + * + * This check may be already late, but still better than nothing. + */ + if (space_info->full) + return 0; + used = btrfs_space_info_used(space_info, true); avail = calc_available_free_space(fs_info, space_info, flush);
Hi David,
Would you please consider merge this patch as a hotfix?
We have more and more reports about deadly ENOSPC trap for multi-device setup.
Considering the worst consequence, user can't even delete anything due to exhausted metadata, I really hope we can at least workaround it.
The side effect of the patch is, smaller metadata over-commit, which may decrease the performance, but I see it worthy to avoid the worst case scenario.
And buy enough time for us to review the per-profile available space patch.
Thanks, Qu
On 2020/9/30 下午8:01, Qu Wenruo wrote:
[BUG] There are quite some bug reports of btrfs falling into a ENOSPC trap, where btrfs can't even start a transaction to add new devices.
[CAUSE] Most of the reports are utilize multi-device profiles, like RAID1/RAID10/RAID5/RAID6, and the involved disks have very unbalanced sizes.
It turns out that, the overcommit calculation in btrfs_can_overcommit() is just a factor based calculation, which can't check if devices can really fulfill the requirement for the desired profile.
This makes btrfs_can_overcommit() to be always over-confident about usable space, and when we can't allocate any new metadata chunk but still allow new metadata operations, we fall into the ENOSPC trap and have no way to exit it.
[WORKAROUND] The root fix needs a device layout aware, chunk allocator like available space calculation.
There used to be such patchset submitted to the mail list, but the extra failure mode is tricky to handle for chunk allocation, thus that patchset needs more time to mature.
Meanwhile to prevent such problems reaching more users, workaround the problem by:
Half the over-commit available space reported So that we won't always be that over-confident. But this won't really help if we have extremely unbalanced disk size.
Don't over-commit if the space info is already full This may already be too late, but still better than doing nothing and believe the over-commit values.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+ Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com
fs/btrfs/space-info.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c index 475968ccbd1d..e8133ec7e34a 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c @@ -339,6 +339,18 @@ static u64 calc_available_free_space(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, avail >>= 3; else avail >>= 1;
- /*
* Since current over-commit calculation is doomed already for* RAID0/RADI1/RAID10/RAID5/6, we half the availabe space to reduce* over-commit amount.** This is just a workaround before the device layout aware* available space calculation arrives.*/- if ((BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID0 | BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID1_MASK |
BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID10 | BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK) &profile)avail >>= 1;} @@ -353,6 +365,14 @@ int btrfs_can_overcommit(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, if (space_info->flags & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DATA) return 0;
- /*
* If we can't allocate new space already, no overcommit is allowed.** This check may be already late, but still better than nothing.*/- if (space_info->full)
return 0;- used = btrfs_space_info_used(space_info, true); avail = calc_available_free_space(fs_info, space_info, flush);
On 9/30/20 8:01 AM, Qu Wenruo wrote:
[BUG] There are quite some bug reports of btrfs falling into a ENOSPC trap, where btrfs can't even start a transaction to add new devices.
[CAUSE] Most of the reports are utilize multi-device profiles, like RAID1/RAID10/RAID5/RAID6, and the involved disks have very unbalanced sizes.
It turns out that, the overcommit calculation in btrfs_can_overcommit() is just a factor based calculation, which can't check if devices can really fulfill the requirement for the desired profile.
This makes btrfs_can_overcommit() to be always over-confident about usable space, and when we can't allocate any new metadata chunk but still allow new metadata operations, we fall into the ENOSPC trap and have no way to exit it.
[WORKAROUND] The root fix needs a device layout aware, chunk allocator like available space calculation.
There used to be such patchset submitted to the mail list, but the extra failure mode is tricky to handle for chunk allocation, thus that patchset needs more time to mature.
Meanwhile to prevent such problems reaching more users, workaround the problem by:
Half the over-commit available space reported So that we won't always be that over-confident. But this won't really help if we have extremely unbalanced disk size.
Don't over-commit if the space info is already full This may already be too late, but still better than doing nothing and believe the over-commit values.
I just had a thought, what if we simply cap the free_chunk_space to the min of the free space of all the devices. Simply walk through all the devices on mount, and we do the initial set of whatever the smallest one is. The rest of the math would work out fine, and the rest of the modifications would work fine. The only "tricky" part would be when we do a shrink or grow, we'd have to re-calculate the sizes for everybody, but that's not a big deal. Thanks,
Josef
On 2020/10/5 下午9:05, Josef Bacik wrote:
On 9/30/20 8:01 AM, Qu Wenruo wrote:
[BUG] There are quite some bug reports of btrfs falling into a ENOSPC trap, where btrfs can't even start a transaction to add new devices.
[CAUSE] Most of the reports are utilize multi-device profiles, like RAID1/RAID10/RAID5/RAID6, and the involved disks have very unbalanced sizes.
It turns out that, the overcommit calculation in btrfs_can_overcommit() is just a factor based calculation, which can't check if devices can really fulfill the requirement for the desired profile.
This makes btrfs_can_overcommit() to be always over-confident about usable space, and when we can't allocate any new metadata chunk but still allow new metadata operations, we fall into the ENOSPC trap and have no way to exit it.
[WORKAROUND] The root fix needs a device layout aware, chunk allocator like available space calculation.
There used to be such patchset submitted to the mail list, but the extra failure mode is tricky to handle for chunk allocation, thus that patchset needs more time to mature.
Meanwhile to prevent such problems reaching more users, workaround the problem by:
- Half the over-commit available space reported
So that we won't always be that over-confident. But this won't really help if we have extremely unbalanced disk size.
- Don't over-commit if the space info is already full
This may already be too late, but still better than doing nothing and believe the over-commit values.
I just had a thought, what if we simply cap the free_chunk_space to the min of the free space of all the devices.
Sure, reducing the number will never be a problem.
Simply walk through all the devices on mount, and we do the initial set of whatever the smallest one is. The rest of the math would work out fine, and the rest of the modifications would work fine.
But I still prefer to do the minimal device size update at the timing of my per-profile available space, so we don't have any chance to over-estimate.
The only "tricky" part would be when we do a shrink or grow, we'd have to re-calculate the sizes for everybody, but that's not a big deal. Thanks,
As long as we don't over-estimate, everything will be fine, just how many extra metadata flushing is needed (thus extra overhead).
The rest is just a spectrum between "I don't really like over-commit at all and let's make it really hard to do any overcommit" and "I'm a super smart guy and here is the best algorithm to estimate how many space we really have for over-commit".
Thanks, Qu
Josef
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