1. 19 Dec, 2011 1 commit
    • Robin Dong's avatar
      ext4: optimize ext4_find_delalloc_range() in nodelalloc mode · 8c48f7e8
      Robin Dong authored
      We found performance regression when using bigalloc with "nodelalloc"
      (1MB cluster size):
      
      1. mke2fs -C 1048576 -O ^has_journal,bigalloc /dev/sda
      2. mount -o nodelalloc /dev/sda /test/
      3. time dd if=/dev/zero of=/test/io bs=1048576 count=1024
      
      The "dd" will cost about 2 seconds to finish, but if we mke2fs without
      "bigalloc", "dd" will only cost less than 1 second.
      
      The reason is: when using ext4 with "nodelalloc", it will call
      ext4_find_delalloc_cluster() nearly everytime it call
      ext4_ext_map_blocks(), and ext4_find_delalloc_range() will also scan
      all pages in cluster because no buffer is "delayed".  A cluster has
      256 pages (1MB cluster), so it will scan 256 * 256k pags when creating
      a 1G file. That severely hurts the performance.
      
      Therefore, we return immediately from ext4_find_delalloc_range() in
      nodelalloc mode, since by definition there can't be any delalloc
      pages.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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