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authorbrookxu <brookxu.cn@gmail.com>2020-08-17 09:36:15 +0200
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2020-08-19 18:04:36 +0200
commit27bc446e2def38db3244a6eb4bb1d6312936610a (patch)
tree567a878460844a91b28ae1a70221f2e3c8e106ee /fs/ext4/ext4.h
parentext4: reorganize if statement of ext4_mb_release_context() (diff)
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ext4: limit the length of per-inode prealloc list
In the scenario of writing sparse files, the per-inode prealloc list may be very long, resulting in high overhead for ext4_mb_use_preallocated(). To circumvent this problem, we limit the maximum length of per-inode prealloc list to 512 and allow users to modify it. After patching, we observed that the sys ratio of cpu has dropped, and the system throughput has increased significantly. We created a process to write the sparse file, and the running time of the process on the fixed kernel was significantly reduced, as follows: Running time on unfixed kernel: [root@TENCENT64 ~]# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat real 0m2.051s user 0m0.008s sys 0m2.026s Running time on fixed kernel: [root@TENCENT64 ~]# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat real 0m0.471s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.395s Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <brookxu@tencent.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d7a98178-056b-6db5-6bce-4ead23f4a257@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/ext4.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/ext4.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 71b4370a3f91..523e00d7b392 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1070,6 +1070,7 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
struct timespec64 i_crtime;
/* mballoc */
+ atomic_t i_prealloc_active;
struct list_head i_prealloc_list;
spinlock_t i_prealloc_lock;
@@ -1518,6 +1519,7 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
unsigned int s_mb_stats;
unsigned int s_mb_order2_reqs;
unsigned int s_mb_group_prealloc;
+ unsigned int s_mb_max_inode_prealloc;
unsigned int s_max_dir_size_kb;
/* where last allocation was done - for stream allocation */
unsigned long s_mb_last_group;
@@ -2682,7 +2684,7 @@ extern int ext4_mb_release(struct super_block *);
extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle_t *,
struct ext4_allocation_request *, int *);
extern int ext4_mb_reserve_blocks(struct super_block *, int);
-extern void ext4_discard_preallocations(struct inode *);
+extern void ext4_discard_preallocations(struct inode *, unsigned int);
extern int __init ext4_init_mballoc(void);
extern void ext4_exit_mballoc(void);
extern ext4_group_t ext4_mb_prefetch(struct super_block *sb,