ocfs2: increase the default size of local alloc windows

I have observed that the current size of 8M gives us pretty poor
fragmentation on multi-threaded workloads which do lots of writes.

Generally, I can increase the size of local alloc windows and observe a
marked decrease in fragmentation, even up and beyond window sizes of 512
megabytes. This makes sense for a couple reasons - larger local alloc means
more room for reservation windows. On multi-node workloads the larger local
alloc helps as well because we don't have to do window slides as often.

Also, I removed the OCFS2_DEFAULT_LOCAL_ALLOC_SIZE constant as it is no
longer used and the comment above it was out of date.

To test fragmentation, I used a workload which launched 4 threads that did
4k writes into a series of about 140 alternating files.

With resv_level=2, and a 4k/4k file system I observed the following average
fragmentation for various localalloc= parameters:

localalloc=	avg. fragmentation
	8		48
	32		16
	64		10
	120		7

On larger cluster sizes, the difference is more dramatic.

The new default size top out at 256M, which we'll only get for cluster
sizes of 32K and above.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
index e98c954cf961..09d7aee3dabe 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
@@ -342,6 +342,9 @@ struct ocfs2_super
          */
         unsigned int local_alloc_bits;
         unsigned int local_alloc_default_bits;
+        /* osb_clusters_at_boot can become stale! Do not trust it to
+         * be up to date. */
+        unsigned int osb_clusters_at_boot;
 
         enum ocfs2_local_alloc_state local_alloc_state; /* protected
                                                          * by osb_lock */