Btrfs: try to keep a healthy ratio of metadata vs data block groups

This patch makes the chunk allocator keep a good ratio of metadata vs data
block groups.  By default for every 8 data block groups, we'll allocate 1
metadata chunk, or about 12% of the disk will be allocated for metadata.  This
can be changed by specifying the metadata_ratio mount option.

This is simply the number of data block groups that have to be allocated to
force a metadata chunk allocation.  By making sure we allocate metadata chunks
more often, we are less likely to get into situations where the whole disk
has been allocated as data block groups.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index ad96495dedc..213535f45da 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -881,6 +881,9 @@ struct btrfs_fs_info {
 	u64 metadata_alloc_profile;
 	u64 system_alloc_profile;
 
+	unsigned data_chunk_allocations;
+	unsigned metadata_ratio;
+
 	void *bdev_holder;
 };