btrfs: make find_workspace always succeed

With just one preallocated workspace we can guarantee forward progress
even if there's no memory available for new workspaces. The cost is more
waiting but we also get rid of several error paths.

On average, there will be several idle workspaces, so the waiting
penalty won't be so bad.

In the worst case, all cpus will compete for one workspace until there's
some memory. Attempts to allocate a new one are done each time the
waiters are woken up.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/compression.c b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
index 38c058b..c706255 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/btrfs/compression.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
@@ -785,8 +785,10 @@ void __init btrfs_init_compress(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * this finds an available workspace or allocates a new one
- * ERR_PTR is returned if things go bad.
+ * This finds an available workspace or allocates a new one.
+ * If it's not possible to allocate a new one, waits until there's one.
+ * Preallocation makes a forward progress guarantees and we do not return
+ * errors.
  */
 static struct list_head *find_workspace(int type)
 {
@@ -826,6 +828,14 @@ again:
        if (IS_ERR(workspace)) {
                atomic_dec(total_ws);
                wake_up(ws_wait);
+
+               /*
+                * Do not return the error but go back to waiting. There's a
+                * workspace preallocated for each type and the compression
+                * time is bounded so we get to a workspace eventually. This
+                * makes our caller's life easier.
+                */
+               goto again;
        }
        return workspace;
 }
@@ -913,8 +923,6 @@ int btrfs_compress_pages(int type, struct address_space *mapping,
        int ret;
 
        workspace = find_workspace(type);
-       if (IS_ERR(workspace))
-               return PTR_ERR(workspace);
 
        ret = btrfs_compress_op[type-1]->compress_pages(workspace, mapping,
                                                      start, len, pages,
@@ -949,8 +957,6 @@ static int btrfs_decompress_biovec(int type, struct page **pages_in,
        int ret;
 
        workspace = find_workspace(type);
-       if (IS_ERR(workspace))
-               return PTR_ERR(workspace);
 
        ret = btrfs_compress_op[type-1]->decompress_biovec(workspace, pages_in,
                                                         disk_start,
@@ -971,8 +977,6 @@ int btrfs_decompress(int type, unsigned char *data_in, struct page *dest_page,
        int ret;
 
        workspace = find_workspace(type);
-       if (IS_ERR(workspace))
-               return PTR_ERR(workspace);
 
        ret = btrfs_compress_op[type-1]->decompress(workspace, data_in,
                                                  dest_page, start_byte,