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Message-Id: <1357901627-3068-1-git-send-email-wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:53:40 +0800 From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com> To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org CC: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> Subject: [PATCH 0/7 v2] ext4: extent status tree (step2) Hi all, Here is my second try to implement the second step of extent status tree in ext4. The changelog is as below. v2 <- v1: - drop patches that try to improve unwritten extent conversion - remove EXT4_MAP_FROM_CLUSTER flag - add tracepoint for ext4_es_lookup_extent() - drop a patch, which tries to fix a warning when bigalloc and delalloc are enabled - add a shrinker to reclaim memory from extent status tree - rebase against 3.8-rc2 Now the patch set makes extent status tree to track all extent status in memory and makes it as a extent cache. The patches that try to improve unwritten extent conversion are dropped because Jan has worked on it and has a perfect solution. Now when bigalloc and delalloc are enabled, there still has some works to be done. The key issue is delayed space reservation. I tried to improve it using extent status tree, but I don't have a good idea in my mind. That would be great if some one could give me some suggestions. I think this work should be as a new patch series. So I drop a patch that is in the first version. As Jan and Dave advised, fragmented extent tree will causes that status tree costs too much memory. So in this patch set a shrinker is defined to reclaim memory. When the status tree of an inode is accessed, the inode will be inserted into the tail of lru list. It will be dropped as ext4_clear_inode is called. When shrinker tries to reclaim some memory, written/unwritten extents will be freed from status tree. Delayed extent in the tree shouldn't be reclaimed because they are used by fiemap, bigalloc, and seek_data/hole. I am worry about the lock contention because a lru lock is used to protect lru list. This lock will be taken by all inodes in this file system. So I do some comparisons to measure this overhead. The result shows that we don't need to care this problem. First I use fio to measure iops on a SSD in my desktop. The config file is as below: == config file == [global] ioengine=libaio iodepth=8 bs=4k filesize=1G fallocate=none size=8G directory=/mnt/sda1 thread group_reporting runtime=600 [jobs] numjobs=4 rw=randrw nrfiles=16 == result of iops == read write w/ 2237 2233 w/o 2225 2227 In addition, I use 'perf lock' to re-run above test case to understand whether there is a heavy contention, and the result shows that it is OK. Other changes in this patch set are minor and straightforward. Please review it. Any feedbacks or comments are welcome. Thanks, - Zheng Zheng Liu (7): ext4: refine extent status tree ext4: remove EXT4_MAP_FROM_CLUSTER flag ext4: add physical block and status member into extent status tree ext4: adjust interfaces of extent status tree ext4: track all extent status in extent status tree ext4: lookup block mapping in extent status tree ext4: reclaim extents from extent status tree fs/ext4/ext4.h | 19 +- fs/ext4/extents.c | 44 ++-- fs/ext4/extents_status.c | 505 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ fs/ext4/extents_status.h | 53 ++++- fs/ext4/file.c | 14 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 138 +++++++++--- fs/ext4/super.c | 6 + include/trace/events/ext4.h | 118 ++++++++--- 8 files changed, 652 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-) -- 1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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