[RFC][1/4] ext2/3/4: enlarge blocksize

sho
2006-09-08T04:11:54Z

Hi all,

On July 7, 2006, sho wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2006, Andreas wrote:
> > On Jun 28, 2006 17:50 +0200, Johann Lombardi wrote:
> > ext2/ext3_dir_entry_2 has a 16-bit entry(rec_len) and it
> > would overflow
> > with 64KB blocksize. This patch prevent from overflow by limiting
> > rec_len to 65532.
> > Having a max rec_len of 65532 is rather unfortunate, since the dir
> > blocks always need to filled with dir entries. 65536 - 65532 = 4,
> > and the minimum ext3_dir_entry size is 8 bytes. I would instead
> > make this maybe 64 bytes less so that there is room for a filename
> > in the "tail" dir_entry.
>
> The fix, adding dummy entry at the tail of a directory block, needs
> to regenerate dummy entry when all of the entries are removed in
> kernel.
> While in e2fsprogs, e2fsck needs to do the same when destroyed by
> some reason. Thus procedures get more complicated.
> Then I updated the patch to limit rec_len to 65532(64K - 4). The
> difference from the previous patch is that the end of a directory
> block is changed to 65532(64K - 4) with 64K blocksize.
> This is more simple and less tweaky. This necessarily makes 4-bytes
> from the end of a directory block useless, but 4-bytes is negligible
> compared to 64KB, who cares?

In response to Mingming's ext4 patches, I updated my patches.
These patches support large blocksize up to PAGESIZE (max 64KB).
NOTE:
They limit the end of a directory block to 65532(64K - 4)
to avoid overflow only when using 64KB block.

The difference from the previous patches is as follows.
- add ext4 support

This patch applies on top of Mingming's patches(against ext3dev-2.6.18-
rc4.patch) which were posted at:
http://ext2.sourceforge.net/48bitext3/patches/latest/

Through mke2fs, ".." entry of root directory is supposed to have rec_len
which is equal to blocksize. So just to fix kernel ends up occurring
the error in ext2_check_page() etc, if 64KB blocksize. Thus I tested
with the provisional fix against e2fsprogs. This patch doesn't include
that fix.

I tested I/O performance with 4K-64K blocksize on ext3.

my box:
models :NX-7700i
CPU type :Itanium2
number of CPU:1
architecture :ia64
memory size :8309152KB
disk size :70007.196(MB)

Results:
blocksize Read(MB/sec) Write(MB/sec)
4K 58.2 59.7
8K 64.3 60.7
16K 66.8 62.2
32K 65.3 60.2
64K 65.4 60.4

I don't know why 16K-blocksize marks the highest numbers. But
without this patch, >4KB blocksize can't be used at least :)

The Patch-set consists of the following 4 patches.
[1/4] ext2/3/4: enlarge blocksize
- Allow blocksize up to pagesize

[2/4] ext2: fix rec_len overflow
- prevent rec_len from overflow with 64KB blocksize

[3/4] ext3: fix rec_len overflow
- ditto

[4/4] ext4: fix rec_len overflow
- ditto

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato sho@tnes.nec.co.jp
---
diff -upNr -X linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/fs/ext2/super.c linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes/fs/ext2/super.c
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/fs/ext2/super.c 2006-08-07 03:20:11.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes/fs/ext2/super.c 2006-09-08 09:00:40.000000000 +0900
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ static int ext2_fill_super(struct super_
brelse(bh);

if (!sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize)) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device.\n");
+ printk(KERN_ERR "EXT2-fs: bad blocksize %d.\n", blocksize);
goto failed_sbi;
}

diff -upNr -X linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/fs/ext3/super.c linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes/fs/ext3/super.c
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/fs/ext3/super.c 2006-08-07 03:20:11.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes/fs/ext3/super.c 2006-09-08 09:00:02.000000000 +0900
@@ -1486,7 +1486,10 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super
}

brelse (bh);
- sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize);
+ if (!sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize)) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "EXT3-fs: bad blocksize %d.\n", blocksize);
+ goto out_fail;
+ }
logic_sb_block = (sb_block * EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE) / blocksize;
offset = (sb_block * EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE) % blocksize;
bh = sb_bread(sb, logic_sb_block);
diff -upNr -X linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/fs/ext4/super.c linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes/fs/ext4/super.c
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/fs/ext4/super.c 2006-08-29 16:29:05.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes/fs/ext4/super.c 2006-09-08 09:00:45.000000000 +0900
@@ -1497,7 +1497,10 @@ static int ext4_fill_super (struct super
}

brelse (bh);
- sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize);
+ if (!sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize)) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: bad blocksize %d.\n", blocksize);
+ goto out_fail;
+ }
logic_sb_block = sb_block * EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE;
offset = sector_div(logic_sb_block, blocksize);
bh = sb_bread(sb, logic_sb_block);
diff -upNr -X linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/include/linux/ext2_fs.h linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes-no_compile/include/linux/ext2_fs.h
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/include/linux/ext2_fs.h 2006-08-07 03:20:11.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes-no_compile/include/linux/ext2_fs.h 2006-09-04 11:26:26.000000000 +0900
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ static inline struct ext2_sb_info *EXT2_
* Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes
*/
#define EXT2_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE 1024
-#define EXT2_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 4096
-#define EXT2_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10
+#define EXT2_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 65536
+#define EXT2_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10
#ifdef __KERNEL__
# define EXT2_BLOCK_SIZE(s) ((s)->s_blocksize)
#else
diff -upNr -X linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/include/linux/ext3_fs.h linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes-no_compile/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/include/linux/ext3_fs.h 2006-08-07 03:20:11.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes-no_compile/include/linux/ext3_fs.h 2006-09-04 11:26:51.000000000 +0900
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@
* Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes
*/
#define EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE 1024
-#define EXT3_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 4096
-#define EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10
+#define EXT3_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 65536
+#define EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10
#ifdef __KERNEL__
# define EXT3_BLOCK_SIZE(s) ((s)->s_blocksize)
#else
diff -upNr -X linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/include/linux/ext4_fs.h linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes-no_compile/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming/include/linux/ext4_fs.h 2006-08-29 16:29:05.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-mingming-tnes-no_compile/include/linux/ext4_fs.h 2006-09-04 11:27:13.000000000 +0900
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@
* Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes
*/
#define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE 1024
-#define EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 4096
-#define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10
+#define EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 65536
+#define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10
#ifdef __KERNEL__
# define EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE(s) ((s)->s_blocksize)
#else

Cheers, sho