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* [PATCH 0/5 v4] ext4: Speedup orphan file handling
@ 2021-07-12 15:40 Jan Kara
  2021-07-12 15:40 ` [PATCH 1/5] ext4: Support for checksumming from journal triggers Jan Kara
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From: Jan Kara @ 2021-07-12 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ted Tso; +Cc: linux-ext4, Jan Kara

  Hello,

Here is a fourth version of my series to speed up orphan inode handling in
ext4.

Orphan inode handling in ext4 is a bottleneck for workloads which heavily
excercise truncate / unlink of small files as they contend on global
s_orphan_mutex (when you have fast enough storage). This patch set implements
new way of handling orphan inodes - instead of using a linked list, we store
inode numbers of orphaned inodes in a file which is possible to implement in a
more scalable manner than linked list manipulations. See description of patch
3/5 for more details.

The patch set achieves significant gains both for a micro benchmark stressing
orphan inode handling (truncating file byte-by-byte, several threads in
parallel) and for reaim creat_clo workload. I'm happy for any review, thoughts,
ideas about the patches. I have also implemented full support in e2fsprogs
which I'll send separately.

								Honza

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210227120804.GB22871@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/

Changes since v3:
* Added documentation about on-disk format changes
* Add physical block number into orphan block checksum
* Improve some sanity checks, handling of corrupted orphan file
* Improved some changelogs

Changes since v2:
* Updated some comments
* Rebased onto 5.13-rc5
* Change orphan file inode from a fixed inode number to inode number stored
  in the superblock

Changes since v1:
* orphan blocks have now magic numbers
* split out orphan handling to a separate source file
* some smaller updates according to review

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