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Message-ID: <4858682E.6020301@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:43:10 +0800
From: Shen Feng <shen@...fujitsu.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: cmm@...ibm.com, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, sandeen@...hat.com,
linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] ext4: Use inode preallocation with -o noextents
Aneesh Kumar K.V Wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 05:42:57PM +0800, Shen Feng wrote:
>>
>> Shen Feng Wrote:
>>> Mingming Cao Wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:13 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:22:20PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
>>>>>> when I moved this patch to the beginning of the unstable patch queue,
>>>>>> it didn't apply. When I tried to look at it, my head started
>>>>>> spinning. The patch applied to the wrong function, apparently,
>>>>>> because there is so much code duplication "patch" got confused. I
>>>>>> can't blame it, though, because *I* got confused.
>>>>>>
>>> ...snip...
>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
>>>>> index 09922ae..a810a21 100644
>>>>> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
>>>>> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
>>>>> @@ -4048,7 +4048,7 @@ ext4_fsblk_t ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle_t *handle,
>>>>> sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
>>>>>
>>>>> if (!test_opt(sb, MBALLOC)) {
>>>>> - block = ext4_new_blocks_old(handle, ar->inode, ar->goal,
>>>>> + block = ext4_orlov_new_blocks(handle, ar->inode, ar->goal,
>>>>> &(ar->len), errp);
>>>>> return block;
>>>>> }
>>>> when we get to ext4_mb_new_blocks, don't we already tested MBALLOC is
>>>> turned on?
>>>>
>>> ext4_ext_get_blocks calls ext4_mb_new_blocks. So we have to check this.
>>> So maybe ext4_ext_get_blocks should call ext4_new_blocks and
>>> we can remove this check.
>>>
>> How about this patch?
>> I tested it with bonnie++ and ltp fs test using mballoc and nonomballoc
>> options.
>
> NACK. you need the ar.lleft/pleft and ar.lright/pright values so that
> mballoc can merge the requests properly. Look at
> ext4_mb_normalize_request . So you can't do the below change.
>
Thank you for your explanation.
OK. Now I understand why the call to ext4_new_blocks_old in ext4_mb_new_blocks
is necessary.
The ar.lleft/pleft and ar.lright/pright values are very useful in the case
that extent and mballoc are used at the same time.
But in other case, i.e. noextent & mballoc, extent & nomballoc, noextent &
nomballoc, these values are useless.
Is that right?
-Shen Feng
>
>> Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@...fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>> fs/ext4/extents.c | 25 +++++++++----------------
>> fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 ------
>> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
>> index 47929c4..3f6be32 100644
>> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
>> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
>> @@ -2528,7 +2528,8 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>> ext4_fsblk_t goal, newblock;
>> int err = 0, depth, ret;
>> unsigned long allocated = 0;
>> - struct ext4_allocation_request ar;
>> + ext4_lblk_t lleft, lright;
>> + ext4_fsblk_t pleft, pright;
>>
>> __clear_bit(BH_New, &bh_result->b_state);
>> ext_debug("blocks %u/%lu requested for inode %u\n",
>> @@ -2653,12 +2654,12 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>> ext4_init_block_alloc_info(inode);
>>
>> /* find neighbour allocated blocks */
>> - ar.lleft = iblock;
>> - err = ext4_ext_search_left(inode, path, &ar.lleft, &ar.pleft);
>> + lleft = iblock;
>> + err = ext4_ext_search_left(inode, path, &lleft, &pleft);
>> if (err)
>> goto out2;
>> - ar.lright = iblock;
>> - err = ext4_ext_search_right(inode, path, &ar.lright, &ar.pright);
>> + lright = iblock;
>> + err = ext4_ext_search_right(inode, path, &lright, &pright);
>> if (err)
>> goto out2;
>>
>> @@ -2685,16 +2686,8 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>> allocated = max_blocks;
>>
>> /* allocate new block */
>> - ar.inode = inode;
>> - ar.goal = ext4_ext_find_goal(inode, path, iblock);
>> - ar.logical = iblock;
>> - ar.len = allocated;
>> - if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
>> - ar.flags = EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA;
>> - else
>> - /* disable in-core preallocation for non-regular files */
>> - ar.flags = 0;
>> - newblock = ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle, &ar, &err);
>> + goal = ext4_ext_find_goal(inode, path, iblock);
>> + newblock = ext4_new_blocks(handle, inode, goal, &allocated, &err);
>> if (!newblock)
>> goto out2;
>> ext_debug("allocate new block: goal %llu, found %llu/%lu\n",
>> @@ -2702,7 +2695,7 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>>
>> /* try to insert new extent into found leaf and return */
>> ext4_ext_store_pblock(&newex, newblock);
>> - newex.ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ar.len);
>> + newex.ee_len = cpu_to_le16(allocated);
>> if (create == EXT4_CREATE_UNINITIALIZED_EXT) /* Mark uninitialized */
>> ext4_ext_mark_uninitialized(&newex);
>> err = ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle, inode, path, &newex);
>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
>> index c9900aa..bc82d39 100644
>> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
>> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
>> @@ -4010,12 +4010,6 @@ ext4_fsblk_t ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle_t *handle,
>> sb = ar->inode->i_sb;
>> sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
>>
>> - if (!test_opt(sb, MBALLOC)) {
>> - block = ext4_new_blocks_old(handle, ar->inode, ar->goal,
>> - &(ar->len), errp);
>> - return block;
>> - }
>> -
>> while (ar->len && DQUOT_ALLOC_BLOCK(ar->inode, ar->len)) {
>> ar->flags |= EXT4_MB_HINT_NOPREALLOC;
>> ar->len--;
>> -- 1.5.5.1
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