[PATCH 4/5] ext4: Use locality group preallocation for small closed files

Jan Kara
2022-09-08T09:23:35Z

Curently we don't use any preallocation when a file is already closed
when allocating blocks (from writeback code when converting delayed
allocation). However for small files, using locality group preallocation
is actually desirable as that is not specific to a particular file.
Rather it is a method to pack small files together to reduce
fragmentation and for that the fact the file is closed is actually even
stronger hint the file would benefit from packing. So change the logic
to allow locality group preallocation in this case.

Fixes: 196e402adf2e ("ext4: improve cr 0 / cr 1 group scanning")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 6251b4a6cc63..af1e49c3603f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -5195,6 +5195,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_group_or_file(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(ac->ac_sb);
int bsbits = ac->ac_sb->s_blocksize_bits;
loff_t size, isize;
+ bool inode_pa_eligible, group_pa_eligible;

if (!(ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA))
return;
@@ -5202,25 +5203,27 @@ static void ext4_mb_group_or_file(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
if (unlikely(ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_GOAL_ONLY))
return;

+ group_pa_eligible = sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc > 0;
+ inode_pa_eligible = true;
size = ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical + EXT4_C2B(sbi, ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len);
isize = (i_size_read(ac->ac_inode) + ac->ac_sb->s_blocksize - 1)
>> bsbits;

+ /* No point in using inode preallocation for closed files */
if ((size == isize) && !ext4_fs_is_busy(sbi) &&
- !inode_is_open_for_write(ac->ac_inode)) {
- ac->ac_flags |= EXT4_MB_HINT_NOPREALLOC;
- return;
- }
+ !inode_is_open_for_write(ac->ac_inode))
+ inode_pa_eligible = false;

- if (sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc <= 0) {
- ac->ac_flags |= EXT4_MB_STREAM_ALLOC;
- return;
- }
-
- /* don't use group allocation for large files */
size = max(size, isize);
- if (size > sbi->s_mb_stream_request) {
- ac->ac_flags |= EXT4_MB_STREAM_ALLOC;
+ /* Don't use group allocation for large files */
+ if (size > sbi->s_mb_stream_request)
+ group_pa_eligible = false;
+
+ if (!group_pa_eligible) {
+ if (inode_pa_eligible)
+ ac->ac_flags |= EXT4_MB_STREAM_ALLOC;
+ else
+ ac->ac_flags |= EXT4_MB_HINT_NOPREALLOC;
return;
}

--
2.35.3