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    btrfs: zoned: automatically reclaim zones · 18bb8bbf
    Johannes Thumshirn authored
    When a file gets deleted on a zoned file system, the space freed is not
    returned back into the block group's free space, but is migrated to
    zone_unusable.
    
    As this zone_unusable space is behind the current write pointer it is not
    possible to use it for new allocations. In the current implementation a
    zone is reset once all of the block group's space is accounted as zone
    unusable.
    
    This behaviour can lead to premature ENOSPC errors on a busy file system.
    
    Instead of only reclaiming the zone once it is completely unusable,
    kick off a reclaim job once the amount of unusable bytes exceeds a user
    configurable threshold between 51% and 100%. It can be set per mounted
    filesystem via the sysfs tunable bg_reclaim_threshold which is set to 75%
    by default.
    
    Similar to reclaiming unused block groups, these dirty block groups are
    added to a to_reclaim list and then on a transaction commit, the reclaim
    process is triggered but after we deleted unused block groups, which will
    free space for the relocation process.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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