Btrfs: Allow worker threads to exit when idle

The Btrfs worker threads don't currently die off after they have
been idle for a while, leading to a lot of threads sitting around
doing nothing for each mount.

Also, they are unable to start atomically (from end_io hanlders).

This commit reworks the worker threads so they can be started
from end_io handlers (just setting a flag that asks for a thread
to be added at a later date) and so they can exit if they
have been idle for a long time.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
index 1b511c109db..a562ad8d83a 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
@@ -73,6 +73,15 @@ struct btrfs_workers {
 	/* force completions in the order they were queued */
 	int ordered;
 
+	/* more workers required, but in an interrupt handler */
+	int atomic_start_pending;
+
+	/*
+	 * are we allowed to sleep while starting workers or are we required
+	 * to start them at a later time?
+	 */
+	int atomic_worker_start;
+
 	/* list with all the work threads.  The workers on the idle thread
 	 * may be actively servicing jobs, but they haven't yet hit the
 	 * idle thresh limit above.