fix: ext4: limit the length of per-inode prealloc list (v5.9)
authorMichael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:26:04 +0000 (15:26 -0400)
committerMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:59:17 +0000 (13:59 -0400)
commit8fe742807e65af29dac3fea568ff93cbc5dd9a56
tree2ef20500431af0789dbfc8be4e0a2ae7c44f5e63
parentf16315cc45c4c6b880de541bb092ca18a13952b7
fix: ext4: limit the length of per-inode prealloc list (v5.9)

See upstream commit:

  commit 27bc446e2def38db3244a6eb4bb1d6312936610a
  Author: brookxu <brookxu.cn@gmail.com>
  Date:   Mon Aug 17 15:36:15 2020 +0800

    ext4: limit the length of per-inode prealloc list

    In the scenario of writing sparse files, the per-inode prealloc list may
    be very long, resulting in high overhead for ext4_mb_use_preallocated().
    To circumvent this problem, we limit the maximum length of per-inode
    prealloc list to 512 and allow users to modify it.

    After patching, we observed that the sys ratio of cpu has dropped, and
    the system throughput has increased significantly. We created a process
    to write the sparse file, and the running time of the process on the
    fixed kernel was significantly reduced, as follows:

    Running time on unfixed kernel:
    [root@TENCENT64 ~]# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat
    real    0m2.051s
    user    0m0.008s
    sys     0m2.026s

    Running time on fixed kernel:
    [root@TENCENT64 ~]# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat
    real    0m0.471s
    user    0m0.004s
    sys     0m0.395s

Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I5169cb24853d4da32e2862a6626f1f058689b053
instrumentation/events/lttng-module/ext4.h
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