linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 25/25] ext4: enable block size larger than page size

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Message-ID: <242f4438-d84d-46a6-86fe-8629c7e028cf@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 10:44:11 +0800
From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
CC: <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, <tytso@....edu>, <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel@...kajraghav.com>,
	<mcgrof@...nel.org>, <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<yi.zhang@...wei.com>, <yangerkun@...wei.com>, <chengzhihao1@...wei.com>,
	<libaokun1@...wei.com>, Baokun Li <libaokun@...weicloud.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 25/25] ext4: enable block size larger than page size

On 2025-11-05 18:14, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Sat 25-10-25 11:22:21, libaokun@...weicloud.com wrote:
>> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
>>
>> Since block device (See commit 3c20917120ce ("block/bdev: enable large
>> folio support for large logical block sizes")) and page cache (See commit
>> ab95d23bab220ef8 ("filemap: allocate mapping_min_order folios in the page
>> cache")) has the ability to have a minimum order when allocating folio,
>> and ext4 has supported large folio in commit 7ac67301e82f ("ext4: enable
>> large folio for regular file"), now add support for block_size > PAGE_SIZE
>> in ext4.
>>
>> set_blocksize() -> bdev_validate_blocksize() already validates the block
>> size, so ext4_load_super() does not need to perform additional checks.
>>
>> Here we only need to enable large folio by default when s_min_folio_order
>> is greater than 0 and add the FS_LBS bit to fs_flags.
>>
>> In addition, mark this feature as experimental.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
> ...
>
>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
>> index 04f9380d4211..ba6cf05860ae 100644
>> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
>> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
>> @@ -5146,6 +5146,9 @@ static bool ext4_should_enable_large_folio(struct inode *inode)
>>  	if (!ext4_test_mount_flag(sb, EXT4_MF_LARGE_FOLIO))
>>  		return false;
>>  
>> +	if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_min_folio_order)
>> +		return true;
>> +
> But now files with data journalling flag enabled will get large folios
> possibly significantly greater that blocksize. I don't think there's a
> fundamental reason why data journalling doesn't work with large folios, the
> only thing that's likely going to break is that credit estimates will go
> through the roof if there are too many blocks per folio. But that can be
> handled by setting max folio order to be equal to min folio order when
> journalling data for the inode.
>
> It is a bit scary to be modifying max folio order in
> ext4_change_inode_journal_flag() but I guess less scary than setting new
> aops and if we prune the whole page cache before touching the order and
> inode flag, we should be safe (famous last words ;).
>
Good point! This looks feasible.

We just need to adjust the folio order range based on the journal data,
and in ext4_inode_journal_mode only ignore the inode’s journal data flag
when max_order > min_order.

I’ll make the adaptation and run some tests.
Thank you for your review!


Cheers,
Baokun

>
>>  	if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
>>  		return false;
>>  	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA))
>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
>> index fdc006a973aa..4c0bd79bdf68 100644
>> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
>> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
>> @@ -5053,6 +5053,9 @@ static int ext4_check_large_folio(struct super_block *sb)
>>  		return -EINVAL;
>>  	}
>>  
>> +	if (sb->s_blocksize > PAGE_SIZE)
>> +		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_NOTICE, "EXPERIMENTAL bs(%lu) > ps(%lu) enabled.",
>> +			 sb->s_blocksize, PAGE_SIZE);
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>> @@ -7432,7 +7435,8 @@ static struct file_system_type ext4_fs_type = {
>>  	.init_fs_context	= ext4_init_fs_context,
>>  	.parameters		= ext4_param_specs,
>>  	.kill_sb		= ext4_kill_sb,
>> -	.fs_flags		= FS_REQUIRES_DEV | FS_ALLOW_IDMAP | FS_MGTIME,
>> +	.fs_flags		= FS_REQUIRES_DEV | FS_ALLOW_IDMAP | FS_MGTIME |
>> +				  FS_LBS,
>>  };
>>  MODULE_ALIAS_FS("ext4");
>>  
>> -- 
>> 2.46.1
>>