Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/9 v1] ext4: add physical block and status member into extent status tree

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Mon 24-12-12 15:55:36, Zheng Liu wrote:
> From: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
> 
> es_pblk is used to record physical block that maps to the disk.  es_status is
> used to record the status of the extent.  Three status are defined, which are
> written, unwritten and delayed.
  So this means one extent is 48 bytes on 64-bit architectures. If I'm a
nasty user and create artificially fragmented file (by allocating every
second block), extent tree takes 6 MB per GB of file. That's quite a bit
and I think you need to provide a way for kernel to reclaim extent
structures...

								Honza
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/extents_status.h | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents_status.h b/fs/ext4/extents_status.h
> index 81e9339..85115bb 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents_status.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents_status.h
> @@ -20,10 +20,18 @@
>  #define es_debug(fmt, ...)	no_printk(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
>  #endif
>  
> +enum {
> +	EXTENT_STATUS_WRITTEN = 0,	/* written extent */
> +	EXTENT_STATUS_UNWRITTEN = 1,	/* unwritten extent */
> +	EXTENT_STATUS_DELAYED = 2,	/* delayed extent */
> +};
> +
>  struct extent_status {
>  	struct rb_node rb_node;
>  	ext4_lblk_t es_lblk;	/* first logical block extent covers */
>  	ext4_lblk_t es_len;	/* length of extent in block */
> +	ext4_fsblk_t es_pblk;	/* first physical block */
> +	int es_status;		/* record the status of extent */
>  };
>  
>  struct ext4_es_tree {
> -- 
> 1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e
> 
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR