linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: add noorlov parameter to avoid spreading of directory inodes

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Message-ID: <20131002162323.GB31579@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:23:23 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: add noorlov parameter to avoid spreading of
 directory inodes

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 10:02:12AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> One thing I'm curious about - what changed from ext3 to ext4?  I thought
> both defaulted to orlov and the same type of allocation behavior, more
> or less.  I guess one change is that the "oldalloc" mount
> option went away.

Ext3 used an orlov style allocator as well.  The main difference
between ext4 and ext3 is the orlov allocator is now done on a
per-flexbg basis instead of per-blockgroup basis.

That is, we do the statistics based on a flex-bg basis instead of the
blockgroup basis.  As a result, I suspect Ben would see the inode
allocation behavior equivalent to ext3 if he creates the file system
using "mke2fs -t ext4 -G 1" to force the flex_bg size to 1.

Can you let me know what the size of the file system was, and mke2fs
parameters you were using for ext3 and ext4?  I have a feeling that
inode allocations weren't optimal for your use case even with ext3,
but because we now spread the inodes based on flex_bg's instead of
block groups, that's why you saw the performance degredation.

      	      	     	     	     - Ted
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