ext4: preload block group descriptors

With enabled meta_bg option block group descriptors
reading IO is not sequential and requires optimization.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Perepechko <andrew.perepechko@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 9ec8963ba604..9a40e0c16dcc 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3879,6 +3879,12 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 
         bgl_lock_init(sbi->s_blockgroup_lock);
 
+        /* Pre-read the descriptors into the buffer cache */
+        for (i = 0; i < db_count; i++) {
+                block = descriptor_loc(sb, logical_sb_block, i);
+                sb_breadahead(sb, block);
+        }
+
         for (i = 0; i < db_count; i++) {
                 block = descriptor_loc(sb, logical_sb_block, i);
                 sbi->s_group_desc[i] = sb_bread_unmovable(sb, block);