btrfs: qgroup: Add comments explaining how btrfs qgroup works

Add explaination how btrfs qgroups work.

Qgroup is split into 3 main phrases:
1) Reserve
   To ensure qgroup doesn't exceed its limit

2) Trace
   To info qgroup to trace which extent

3) Account
   Calculate qgroup number change for each traced extent.

This should save quite some time for new developers.

Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.h b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.h
index 1bc64c864b626a25b9ec9bf983090504fe9a78e9..a72bf21927572e58d31f8c17d579b5bc2365d4b2 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.h
@@ -22,6 +22,34 @@
 #include "ulist.h"
 #include "delayed-ref.h"
 
+/*
+ * Btrfs qgroup overview
+ *
+ * Btrfs qgroup splits into 3 main part:
+ * 1) Reserve
+ *    Reserve metadata/data space for incoming operations
+ *    Affect how qgroup limit works
+ *
+ * 2) Trace
+ *    Tell btrfs qgroup to trace dirty extents.
+ *
+ *    Dirty extents including:
+ *    - Newly allocated extents
+ *    - Extents going to be deleted (in this trans)
+ *    - Extents whose owner is going to be modified
+ *
+ *    This is the main part affects whether qgroup numbers will stay
+ *    consistent.
+ *    Btrfs qgroup can trace clean extents and won't cause any problem,
+ *    but it will consume extra CPU time, it should be avoided if possible.
+ *
+ * 3) Account
+ *    Btrfs qgroup will updates its numbers, based on dirty extents traced
+ *    in previous step.
+ *
+ *    Normally at qgroup rescan and transaction commit time.
+ */
+
 /*
  * Record a dirty extent, and info qgroup to update quota on it
  * TODO: Use kmem cache to alloc it.