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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2010-12-22 20:02:31 -0500
committerDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>2010-12-22 20:02:31 -0500
commit6e857567dbbfe14dd6cc3f7414671b047b1ff5c7 (patch)
treedde314cd6a22066e4cd7f3c498f89b00984838d7 /fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
parent055388a3188f56676c21e92962fc366ac8b5cb72 (diff)
xfs: don't truncate prealloc from frequently accessed inodes
A long standing problem for streaming writeѕ through the NFS server has been that the NFS server opens and closes file descriptors on an inode for every write. The result of this behaviour is that the ->release() function is called on every close and that results in XFS truncating speculative preallocation beyond the EOF. This has an adverse effect on file layout when multiple files are being written at the same time - they interleave their extents and can result in severe fragmentation. To avoid this problem, keep track of ->release calls made on a dirty inode. For most cases, an inode is only going to be opened once for writing and then closed again during it's lifetime in cache. Hence if there are multiple ->release calls when the inode is dirty, there is a good chance that the inode is being accessed by the NFS server. Hence set a flag the first time ->release is called while there are delalloc blocks still outstanding on the inode. If this flag is set when ->release is next called, then do no truncate away the speculative preallocation - leave it there so that subsequent writes do not need to reallocate the delalloc space. This will prevent interleaving of extents of different inodes written concurrently to the same AG. If we get this wrong, it is not a big deal as we truncate speculative allocation beyond EOF anyway in xfs_inactive() when the inode is thrown out of the cache. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
index 1c6514d73dc8..5c95fa8ec11d 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
@@ -376,12 +376,13 @@ static inline void xfs_ifunlock(xfs_inode_t *ip)
376/* 376/*
377 * In-core inode flags. 377 * In-core inode flags.
378 */ 378 */
379#define XFS_IRECLAIM 0x0001 /* we have started reclaiming this inode */ 379#define XFS_IRECLAIM 0x0001 /* started reclaiming this inode */
380#define XFS_ISTALE 0x0002 /* inode has been staled */ 380#define XFS_ISTALE 0x0002 /* inode has been staled */
381#define XFS_IRECLAIMABLE 0x0004 /* inode can be reclaimed */ 381#define XFS_IRECLAIMABLE 0x0004 /* inode can be reclaimed */
382#define XFS_INEW 0x0008 /* inode has just been allocated */ 382#define XFS_INEW 0x0008 /* inode has just been allocated */
383#define XFS_IFILESTREAM 0x0010 /* inode is in a filestream directory */ 383#define XFS_IFILESTREAM 0x0010 /* inode is in a filestream directory */
384#define XFS_ITRUNCATED 0x0020 /* truncated down so flush-on-close */ 384#define XFS_ITRUNCATED 0x0020 /* truncated down so flush-on-close */
385#define XFS_IDIRTY_RELEASE 0x0040 /* dirty release already seen */
385 386
386/* 387/*
387 * Flags for inode locking. 388 * Flags for inode locking.