Btrfs: async transaction commit
authorSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:37:34 +0000 (15:37 -0400)
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:37:34 +0000 (15:37 -0400)
commitbb9c12c945cbd1b0eaa1589546dde772ccabeeba
tree92f0bb01dce5125547c590d7c06b3e02d5c9d4fa
parent99d16cbcaf694c803a1b6bf7e851694ffe1d255d
Btrfs: async transaction commit

Add support for an async transaction commit that is ordered such that any
subsequent operations will join the following transaction, but does not
wait until the current commit is fully on disk.  This avoids much of the
latency associated with the btrfs_commit_transaction for callers concerned
with serialization and not safety.

The wait_for_unblock flag controls whether we wait for the 'middle' portion
of commit_transaction to complete, which is necessary if the caller expects
some of the modifications contained in the commit to be available (this is
the case for subvol/snapshot creation).

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
fs/btrfs/ctree.h
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
fs/btrfs/transaction.c
fs/btrfs/transaction.h