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authorFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>2025-07-18 13:07:29 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-08-20 18:36:31 +0200
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btrfs: send: use fallocate for hole punching with send stream v2
commit 005b0a0c24e1628313e951516b675109a92cacfe upstream. Currently holes are sent as writes full of zeroes, which results in unnecessarily using disk space at the receiving end and increasing the stream size. In some cases we avoid sending writes of zeroes, like during a full send operation where we just skip writes for holes. But for some cases we fill previous holes with writes of zeroes too, like in this scenario: 1) We have a file with a hole in the range [2M, 3M), we snapshot the subvolume and do a full send. The range [2M, 3M) stays as a hole at the receiver since we skip sending write commands full of zeroes; 2) We punch a hole for the range [3M, 4M) in our file, so that now it has a 2M hole in the range [2M, 4M), and snapshot the subvolume. Now if we do an incremental send, we will send write commands full of zeroes for the range [2M, 4M), removing the hole for [2M, 3M) at the receiver. We could improve cases such as this last one by doing additional comparisons of file extent items (or their absence) between the parent and send snapshots, but that's a lot of code to add plus additional CPU and IO costs. Since the send stream v2 already has a fallocate command and btrfs-progs implements a callback to execute fallocate since the send stream v2 support was added to it, update the kernel to use fallocate for punching holes for V2+ streams. Test coverage is provided by btrfs/284 which is a version of btrfs/007 that exercises send stream v2 instead of v1, using fsstress with random operations and fssum to verify file contents. Link: https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/1001 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.1+ Reviewed-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/send.c33
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/send.c b/fs/btrfs/send.c
index 0c8c58c4f29b..186a79b824f1 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/send.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/send.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/bsearch.h>
+#include <linux/falloc.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/sort.h>
@@ -5465,6 +5466,30 @@ tlv_put_failure:
return ret;
}
+static int send_fallocate(struct send_ctx *sctx, u32 mode, u64 offset, u64 len)
+{
+ struct fs_path *path;
+ int ret;
+
+ path = get_cur_inode_path(sctx);
+ if (IS_ERR(path))
+ return PTR_ERR(path);
+
+ ret = begin_cmd(sctx, BTRFS_SEND_C_FALLOCATE);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ TLV_PUT_PATH(sctx, BTRFS_SEND_A_PATH, path);
+ TLV_PUT_U32(sctx, BTRFS_SEND_A_FALLOCATE_MODE, mode);
+ TLV_PUT_U64(sctx, BTRFS_SEND_A_FILE_OFFSET, offset);
+ TLV_PUT_U64(sctx, BTRFS_SEND_A_SIZE, len);
+
+ ret = send_cmd(sctx);
+
+tlv_put_failure:
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int send_hole(struct send_ctx *sctx, u64 end)
{
struct fs_path *p = NULL;
@@ -5473,6 +5498,14 @@ static int send_hole(struct send_ctx *sctx, u64 end)
int ret = 0;
/*
+ * Starting with send stream v2 we have fallocate and can use it to
+ * punch holes instead of sending writes full of zeroes.
+ */
+ if (proto_cmd_ok(sctx, BTRFS_SEND_C_FALLOCATE))
+ return send_fallocate(sctx, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,
+ offset, end - offset);
+
+ /*
* A hole that starts at EOF or beyond it. Since we do not yet support
* fallocate (for extent preallocation and hole punching), sending a
* write of zeroes starting at EOF or beyond would later require issuing