From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Fredrick <fjohnber@zoho.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, wenqing.lz@taobao.com
Subject: Re: ext4_fallocate
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:03:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120702030310.GA2406@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27810AD9-FEA3-4C82-A5EC-A4B9B5F90071@dilger.ca>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 01:02:35PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> There is already code for this in the ext4 uninit extent handling.
> Currently the limit is 15(?) blocks, to inflate the write size up
> to zero-fill a 64kB chunk on 4kB blocksize filesystems. I wouldn't
> object to increasing this to zero out a full 1MB (aligned) chunk
> under random IO cases.
I agree with you that we can increase it to 1MB chunk, and I will run
some tests to see the result. In addition, I am thinking whether we can
provide a parameter in sysfs or some other places to adjust this value
dynamically.
Regards,
Zheng
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-02 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-25 6:42 ext4_fallocate Fredrick
2012-06-25 7:33 ` ext4_fallocate Andreas Dilger
2012-06-28 15:12 ` ext4_fallocate Phillip Susi
2012-06-28 15:23 ` ext4_fallocate Eric Sandeen
2012-06-25 8:51 ` ext4_fallocate Zheng Liu
2012-06-25 19:04 ` ext4_fallocate Fredrick
2012-06-25 19:17 ` ext4_fallocate Theodore Ts'o
2012-06-26 1:23 ` ext4_fallocate Fredrick
2012-06-26 13:13 ` ext4_fallocate Ric Wheeler
2012-06-26 17:30 ` ext4_fallocate Theodore Ts'o
2012-06-26 18:06 ` ext4_fallocate Fredrick
2012-06-26 18:21 ` ext4_fallocate Ric Wheeler
2012-06-26 18:57 ` ext4_fallocate Ted Ts'o
2012-06-26 19:22 ` ext4_fallocate Ric Wheeler
2012-06-26 18:05 ` ext4_fallocate Fredrick
2012-06-26 18:59 ` ext4_fallocate Ted Ts'o
2012-06-26 19:30 ` ext4_fallocate Ric Wheeler
2012-06-26 19:57 ` ext4_fallocate Eric Sandeen
2012-06-26 20:44 ` ext4_fallocate Eric Sandeen
2012-06-27 15:14 ` ext4_fallocate Eric Sandeen
2012-06-27 19:30 ` ext4_fallocate Theodore Ts'o
2012-06-27 23:02 ` ext4_fallocate Eric Sandeen
2012-06-28 11:27 ` ext4_fallocate Ric Wheeler
2012-06-29 19:02 ` ext4_fallocate Andreas Dilger
2012-07-02 3:03 ` Zheng Liu [this message]
2012-06-28 12:48 ` ext4_fallocate Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-02 3:16 ` ext4_fallocate Zheng Liu
2012-07-02 16:33 ` ext4_fallocate Eric Sandeen
2012-07-02 17:44 ` ext4_fallocate Jan Kara
2012-07-02 17:48 ` ext4_fallocate Ric Wheeler
2012-07-03 17:41 ` ext4_fallocate Zheng Liu
2012-07-03 17:57 ` ext4_fallocate Zach Brown
2012-07-04 2:23 ` ext4_fallocate Zheng Liu
2012-07-02 18:01 ` ext4_fallocate Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-03 9:30 ` ext4_fallocate Jan Kara
2012-07-04 1:15 ` ext4_fallocate Phillip Susi
2012-07-04 2:36 ` ext4_fallocate Zheng Liu
2012-07-04 3:06 ` ext4_fallocate Phillip Susi
2012-07-04 3:48 ` ext4_fallocate Zheng Liu
2012-07-04 12:20 ` ext4_fallocate Ric Wheeler
2012-07-04 13:25 ` ext4_fallocate Zheng Liu
2012-06-26 13:06 ` ext4_fallocate Eric Sandeen
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