btrfs: relocation: Add introduction of how relocation works

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Relocation is one of the most complex part of btrfs, while it's also the
foundation stone for online resizing, profile converting.

For such a complex facility, we should at least have some introduction
to it.

This patch will add an basic introduction at pretty a high level,
explaining:

- What relocation does
- How relocation is done
  Only mentioning how data reloc tree and reloc tree are involved in the
  operation.
  No details like the backref cache, or the data reloc tree contents.
- Which function to refer.

More detailed comments will be added for reloc tree creation, data reloc
tree creation and backref cache.

Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

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Qu Wenruo 2020-01-16 13:04:07 +08:00 • committed by David Sterba

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