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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

  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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