btrfs: update writeback index when starting defrag

When starting a defrag, we should update the writeback index of the
inode's mapping in case it currently has a value beyond the start of the
range we are defragging. This can help performance and often result in
getting less extents after writeback - for e.g., if the current value
of the writeback index sits somewhere in the middle of a range that
gets dirty by the defrag, then after writeback we can get two smaller
extents instead of a single, larger extent.

We used to have this before the refactoring in 5.16, but it was removed
without any reason to do so. Originally it was added in kernel 3.1, by
commit 2a0f7f5769992b ("Btrfs: fix recursive auto-defrag"), in order to
fix a loop with autodefrag resulting in dirtying and writing pages over
and over, but some testing on current code did not show that happening,
at least with the test described in that commit.

So add back the behaviour, as at the very least it is a nice to have
optimization.

Fixes: 7b508037d4cac3 ("btrfs: defrag: use defrag_one_cluster() to implement btrfs_defrag_file()")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.16
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index ac420060aac3..eef5b300b9a9 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -1537,6 +1537,7 @@ int btrfs_defrag_file(struct inode *inode, struct file_ra_state *ra,
 	int compress_type = BTRFS_COMPRESS_ZLIB;
 	int ret = 0;
 	u32 extent_thresh = range->extent_thresh;
+	pgoff_t start_index;
 
 	if (isize == 0)
 		return 0;
@@ -1578,6 +1579,14 @@ int btrfs_defrag_file(struct inode *inode, struct file_ra_state *ra,
 			file_ra_state_init(ra, inode->i_mapping);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Make writeback start from the beginning of the range, so that the
+	 * defrag range can be written sequentially.
+	 */
+	start_index = cur >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	if (start_index < inode->i_mapping->writeback_index)
+		inode->i_mapping->writeback_index = start_index;
+
 	while (cur < last_byte) {
 		const unsigned long prev_sectors_defragged = sectors_defragged;
 		u64 cluster_end;