ext4: add support for extent pre-caching

Add a new fiemap flag which forces the all of the extents in an inode
to be cached in the extent_status tree.  This is critically important
when using AIO to a preallocated file, since if we need to read in
blocks from the extent tree, the io_submit(2) system call becomes
synchronous, and the AIO is no longer "A", which is bad.

In addition, for most files which have an external leaf tree block,
the cost of caching the information in the extent status tree will be
less than caching the entire 4k block in the buffer cache.  So it is
generally a win to keep the extent information cached.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index c74b1948feb0..635135e6148e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -561,15 +561,16 @@ enum {
 #define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_PUT_HOLE             0x0200
 
 /*
- * The bit position of this flag must not overlap with any of the
- * EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_*.  It is used by ext4_ext_find_extent(),
+ * The bit position of these flags must not overlap with any of the
+ * EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_*.  They are used by ext4_ext_find_extent(),
  * read_extent_tree_block(), ext4_split_extent_at(),
- * ext4_ext_insert_extent(), and ext4_ext_create_new_leaf() to
- * indicate that the we shouldn't be caching the extents when reading
- * from the extent tree while a truncate or punch hole operation
- * is in progress.
+ * ext4_ext_insert_extent(), and ext4_ext_create_new_leaf().
+ * EXT4_EX_NOCACHE is used to indicate that the we shouldn't be
+ * caching the extents when reading from the extent tree while a
+ * truncate or punch hole operation is in progress.
  */
 #define EXT4_EX_NOCACHE                         0x0400
+#define EXT4_EX_FORCE_CACHE                     0x0800
 
 /*
  * Flags used by ext4_free_blocks
@@ -601,6 +602,7 @@ enum {
 #define EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT               _IOWR('f', 15, struct move_extent)
 #define EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS              _IOW('f', 16, __u64)
 #define EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT              _IO('f', 17)
+#define EXT4_IOC_PRECACHE_EXTENTS       _IO('f', 18)
 
 #if defined(__KERNEL__) && defined(CONFIG_COMPAT)
 /*
@@ -1386,6 +1388,7 @@ enum {
                                            nolocking */
         EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA,     /* may have in-inode data */
         EXT4_STATE_ORDERED_MODE,        /* data=ordered mode */
+        EXT4_STATE_EXT_PRECACHED,       /* extents have been precached */
 };
 
 #define EXT4_INODE_BIT_FNS(name, field, offset)                         \
@@ -2705,7 +2708,7 @@ extern int ext4_find_delalloc_range(struct inode *inode,
 extern int ext4_find_delalloc_cluster(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t lblk);
 extern int ext4_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo,
                         __u64 start, __u64 len);
-
+extern int ext4_ext_precache(struct inode *inode);
 
 /* move_extent.c */
 extern void ext4_double_down_write_data_sem(struct inode *first,