ext4: make the preallocation size be a multiple of stripe size
Previously, if a stripe width was provided, then it would be used
as the preallocation granularity, with no santiy checking and no
way to override this. Now, mb_prealloc_size defaults to the smallest
multiple of stripe size that is greater than or equal to the old
default mb_prealloc_size, and this can be overridden with the sysfs
interface.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index b97a2d2..037f680 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -128,12 +128,13 @@
* we are doing a group prealloc we try to normalize the request to
* sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc. Default value of s_mb_group_prealloc is
* 512 blocks. This can be tuned via
- * /sys/fs/ext4/<partition/mb_group_prealloc. The value is represented in
+ * /sys/fs/ext4/<partition>/mb_group_prealloc. The value is represented in
* terms of number of blocks. If we have mounted the file system with -O
* stripe=<value> option the group prealloc request is normalized to the
- * stripe value (sbi->s_stripe)
+ * the smallest multiple of the stripe value (sbi->s_stripe) which is
+ * greater than the default mb_group_prealloc.
*
- * The regular allocator(using the buddy cache) supports few tunables.
+ * The regular allocator (using the buddy cache) supports a few tunables.
*
* /sys/fs/ext4/<partition>/mb_min_to_scan
* /sys/fs/ext4/<partition>/mb_max_to_scan
@@ -2474,6 +2475,18 @@
sbi->s_mb_stream_request = MB_DEFAULT_STREAM_THRESHOLD;
sbi->s_mb_order2_reqs = MB_DEFAULT_ORDER2_REQS;
sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc = MB_DEFAULT_GROUP_PREALLOC;
+ /*
+ * If there is a s_stripe > 1, then we set the s_mb_group_prealloc
+ * to the lowest multiple of s_stripe which is bigger than
+ * the s_mb_group_prealloc as determined above. We want
+ * the preallocation size to be an exact multiple of the
+ * RAID stripe size so that preallocations don't fragment
+ * the stripes.
+ */
+ if (sbi->s_stripe > 1) {
+ sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc = roundup(
+ sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc, sbi->s_stripe);
+ }
sbi->s_locality_groups = alloc_percpu(struct ext4_locality_group);
if (sbi->s_locality_groups == NULL) {
@@ -2841,8 +2854,9 @@
/*
* here we normalize request for locality group
- * Group request are normalized to s_strip size if we set the same via mount
- * option. If not we set it to s_mb_group_prealloc which can be configured via
+ * Group request are normalized to s_mb_group_prealloc, which goes to
+ * s_strip if we set the same via mount option.
+ * s_mb_group_prealloc can be configured via
* /sys/fs/ext4/<partition>/mb_group_prealloc
*
* XXX: should we try to preallocate more than the group has now?
@@ -2853,10 +2867,7 @@
struct ext4_locality_group *lg = ac->ac_lg;
BUG_ON(lg == NULL);
- if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_stripe)
- ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_stripe;
- else
- ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mb_group_prealloc;
+ ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mb_group_prealloc;
mb_debug(1, "#%u: goal %u blocks for locality group\n",
current->pid, ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len);
}
