In case of inode preallocation, the number of blocks to allocate depends
on the file size and it is calculated in ext4_mb_normalize_request().
Each group in the filesystem is then checked to find one that can be
used for allocation; this is done in ext4_mb_good_group().
When a file bigger than 4MB is created, the requested number of blocks
to preallocate, calculated by ext4_mb_normalize_request is 4096.
However for a filesystem with 1KB block size, the maximum size of the
block buddies used by the multiblock allocator is 2048, so none of
groups in the filesystem satisfies the search criteria in
ext4_mb_good_group(). Scanning all the filesystem groups impacts
performance.
This was demonstrated by using a freshly created, 70GB, 1k block
filesystem, with caches dropped write before the test via
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, and with the filesystem mounted with
nodelalloc and nodealloc,nomballoc. The time to write an 8 megabyte
file using "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test/fo bs=8k count=1k conv=fsync"
took 35.5091 seconds (236kB/s) with nodellaloc, and 0.233754 seconds
(35.9 MB/s) with the nodelloc,nomballoc options. With a 1TB partition,
it took several minutes to write 8MB!
This patch modifies the algorithm in ext4_mb_normalize_group_request to
calculate the number of blocks to allocate by taking into account the
maximum size of free blocks chunks handled by the multiblock allocator.
It has also been tested for filesystems with 2KB and 4KB block sizes to
ensure that those cases don't regress.
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
bdevname() fills the buffer that it is given as a parameter, so calling
strcpy() or snprintf() on the returned value is redundant (and probably not
guaranteed to work - I don't think strcpy and snprintf support overlapping
buffers.)
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In ext4_mb_init_backend() 'i' is of type ext4_group_t. Since unsigned, i
>= 0 is always true, so fix hot spins after err_freebuddy: and -meta:
and prevent decrements when zero.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Move function and structure definiations out of mballoc.c and put it under
a new header file mballoc.h
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch allows compiling mballoc with:
#define AGGRESSIVE_CHECK
#define DOUBLE_CHECK
#define MB_DEBUG
It fixes:
Compilation errors:
fs/ext4/mballoc.c: In function '__mb_check_buddy':
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:605: error: 'struct ext4_prealloc_space' has no member named 'group_list'
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:606: error: 'struct ext4_prealloc_space' has no member named 'pstart'
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:608: error: 'struct ext4_prealloc_space' has no member named 'len'
Compilation warnings:
fs/ext4/mballoc.c: In function 'ext4_mb_normalize_group_request':
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2863: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'int'
fs/ext4/mballoc.c: In function 'ext4_mb_use_inode_pa':
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3103: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'int'
Sparse check:
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3818:2: warning: context imbalance in 'ext4_mb_show_ac' - different lock contexts for basic block
Signed-off-by: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Move ext4 headers out of include/linux. This is just the trivial move,
there's some more thing that could be done later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The function prototype of ext4_new_blocks_old() is defined in ext4_fs.h,
so we don't need the extra function prototype in mballoc.c
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The list_for_each_entry_rcu() primitive should be used instead of
list_for_each_rcu(), as the former is easier to use and provides
better type safety.
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/45749c83451cebeb/0633a65759ce7713?lnk=raot
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
mballoc.c is a whole lot of static functions, which gcc seems to
really like to inline.
With the changes below, on x86, I can at least get from:
432 ext4_mb_new_blocks
240 ext4_mb_free_blocks
208 ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations
188 ext4_mb_seq_groups_show
164 ext4_mb_init_cache
152 ext4_mb_release_inode_pa
136 ext4_mb_seq_history_show
...
to
220 ext4_mb_free_blocks
188 ext4_mb_seq_groups_show
176 ext4_mb_regular_allocator
164 ext4_mb_init_cache
156 ext4_mb_new_blocks
152 ext4_mb_release_inode_pa
136 ext4_mb_seq_history_show
124 ext4_mb_release_group_pa
...
which still has some big functions in there, but not 432 bytes!
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data
be setup before gluing PDE to main tree.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use creation by full path instead: "fs/foo".
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ext4_find_next_zero_bit and ext4_find_next_bit needs a long aligned
address on x8_64. Add mb_find_next_zero_bit and mb_find_next_bit
and use them in the mballoc.
Fix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433286
Eric Sandeen debugged the problem and suggested the fix.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In ext4_mb_complex_scan_group, if the extent length of the newly
found extentet is greater than than the total free blocks counted
in group info, break without claiming the block.
Document different ext4_error usage, explaining the state with which we
continue if we mount with errors=continue
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
With the flex_bg feature enabled, a large file creation oopses the
kernel. The BUG_ON is:
BUG_ON(len >= EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb));
As the allocation of the bitmaps and the inode table can be done
outside the block group with flex_bg, this allows to allocate up to
EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP blocks in a group.
This patch fixes the oops.
Signed-off-by: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Multiblock allocator calls BUG_ON in many case if the free and used
blocks count obtained looking at the bitmap is different from what
the allocator internally accounted for. Use ext4_error in such case
and don't panic the system.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
struct ext4_allocation_context is rather large, and this bloats
the stack of many functions which use it. Allocating it from
a named slab cache will alleviate this.
For example, with this change (on top of the noinline patch sent earlier):
-ext4_mb_new_blocks 200
+ext4_mb_new_blocks 40
-ext4_mb_free_blocks 344
+ext4_mb_free_blocks 168
-ext4_mb_release_inode_pa 216
+ext4_mb_release_inode_pa 40
-ext4_mb_release_group_pa 192
+ext4_mb_release_group_pa 24
Most of these stack-allocated structs are actually used only for
mballoc history; and in those cases often a smaller struct would do.
So changing that may be another way around it, at least for those
functions, if preferred. For now, in those cases where the ac
is only for history, an allocation failure simply skips the history
recording, and does not cause any other failures.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Repoted by Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>:
The Coverity checker spotted the following NULL dereference:
static int ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used
{
...
if (!bitmap_bh)
goto out_err;
...
out_err:
sb->s_dirt = 1;
put_bh(bitmap_bh);
...
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Valerie Clement
Jean Delvare
Roel Kluin
Mingming Cao
Solofo Ramangalahy
Aneesh Kumar K.V
Christoph Hellwig
Harvey Harrison
Marcin Slusarz
Eric Sandeen
Denis V. Lunev
Alexey Dobriyan
Alex Tomas