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    Btrfs: fix deadlocks and stalls on dead root removal · 59bc5c75
    Chris Mason authored
    After a transaction commit, the old root of the subvol btrees are sent through
    snapshot removal.  This is what actually frees up any blocks replaced by
    COW, and anything the old blocks pointed to.
    
    Snapshot deletion will pause when a transaction commit has started, which
    helps to avoid a huge amount of delayed reference count updates piling up
    as the transaction is trying to close.
    
    But, this pause happens after the snapshot deletion process has asked other
    procs on the system to throttle back a bit so that it can make progress.
    
    We don't want to throttle everyone while we're waiting for the transaction
    commit, it leads to deadlocks in the user transaction ioctls used by Ceph
    and makes things slower in general.
    
    This patch changes things to avoid the throttling while we sleep.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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