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btrfs: make the chunk allocator utilize the devices better With this patch, we change the handling method when we can not get enough free extents with default size. Implementation: 1. Look up the suitable free extent on each device and keep the search result. If not find a suitable free extent, keep the max free extent 2. If we get enough suitable free extents with default size, chunk allocation succeeds. 3. If we can not get enough free extents, but the number of the extent with default size is >= min_stripes, we just change the mapping information (reduce the number of stripes in the extent map), and chunk allocation succeeds. 4. If the number of the extent with default size is < min_stripes, sort the devices by its max free extent's size descending 5. Use the size of the max free extent on the (num_stripes - 1)th device as the stripe size to allocate the device space By this way, the chunk allocator can allocate chunks as large as possible when the devices' space is not enough and make full use of the devices. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>