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ext4: do not normalize block requests from fallocate()

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Currently, an fallocate request of size slightly larger than a power of
2 is turned into two block requests, each a power of 2, with the extra
blocks pre-allocated for future use. When an application calls
fallocate, it already has an idea about how large the file may grow so
there is usually little benefit to reserve extra blocks on the
preallocation list. This reduces disk fragmentation.

Tested: fsstress. Also verified manually that fallocat'ed files are
contiguously laid out with this change (whereas without it they begin at
power-of-2 boundaries, leaving blocks in between). CPU usage of
fallocate is not appreciably higher.  In a tight fallocate loop, CPU
usage hovers between 5%-8% with this change, and 5%-7% without it.

Using a simulated file system aging program which the file system to
70%, the percentage of free extents larger than 8MB (as measured by
e2freefrag) increased from 38.8% without this change, to 69.4% with
this change.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Haldar <haldar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Vivek Haldar 2011-05-25 07:41:54 -04:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent a4bb6b64e3
commit 556b27abf7
2 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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fs/ext4/ext4.h
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@ -517,6 +517,8 @@ struct ext4_new_group_data {
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNINIT_EXT)
/* Punch out blocks of an extent */
#define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PUNCH_OUT_EXT 0x0020
/* Don't normalize allocation size (used for fallocate) */
#define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE 0x0040
/*
* Flags used by ext4_free_blocks

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fs/ext4/extents.c
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@ -3554,6 +3554,8 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
else
/* disable in-core preallocation for non-regular files */
ar.flags = 0;
if (flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE)
ar.flags |= EXT4_MB_HINT_NOPREALLOC;
newblock = ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle, &ar, &err);
if (!newblock)
goto out2;
@ -3807,7 +3809,8 @@ retry:
break;
}
ret = ext4_map_blocks(handle, inode, &map,
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNINIT_EXT);
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNINIT_EXT |
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE);
if (ret <= 0) {
#ifdef EXT4FS_DEBUG
WARN_ON(ret <= 0);