Re: block allocation for ext2_mkdir

Sandeep K Sinha
2008-12-19T20:24:17Z

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Rohit Sharma <imreckless@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not sure but ext2_alloc_blocks function
> in inode.c, allocate blocks for indirect blocks.
>
You are right,
The allocation can be from direct or indirect blocks depending on the
availability.
What I feel is that you dont need any kind of optimizations for the
allocation of all your direct blocks, but surely for indirect blocks.

>
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Rohit Sharma <imreckless@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a difference between how ext2 allocates block between
>> inode's indirect blocks and data blocks.
>>

Ofcourse, you surely will have.
So, as a part of the block allocation optimization ext2 uses the
concepts of goals and reservation windows for its indirect blocks.

>>
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Rohit Sharma <imreckless@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Rohit Sharma <imreckless@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Rohit Sharma <imreckless@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> > How does ext2 allocate blocks for directory.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > ext2_mkdir calls ext2_make_empty
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > ext2_make_empty calls __ext2_write_begin
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > __ ext2_write_begin calls block_write_begin
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > my query is that how does this function allocates blocks for directories. ??
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does ext2 uses ext2_get_block to allocate blocks for both files and
>>>>>>>> directories. ??
>>>>>>> Yes, exactly. Ext2 (unlike ext3 or ext4) treats directories the same
>>>>>>> ways as ordinary files and thus ext2_get_block is used for block
>>>>>>> allocation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can i modify this function to restrict allocation of blocks
>>>>>> to a particular block group ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Like i want that my abc.txt file should be in block group 5 suppose, then
>>>>>> what should i do?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think this can be done. Or is done in the kernel source in several
>>>>> ways (indirectly).
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. ext2_find_goal()-->this will look for the best new block. when
>>>>> searching, it will try to find the block to be allocated to follow the
>>>>> one last allocated in the file, so as to maintain storage contiguity.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. looking into fs/ext2/balloc.c: ext2_try_to_allocate(), there is a
>>>>> argument called group_goal, whose purpose is to specify the goal block
>>>>> group, and the algorithm will start searching from the group specified
>>>>> (look for "start=grp_goal"). Of course, if search is in vain it will
>>>>> proceed to other block group, which u don't want ....so may be can
>>>>> customize from here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure if I am right?
>>>>>
>>>> When we create new file, do we use reservation window to allocate blocks
>>>> or we use reservation window every time we need a new data blocks
>>>> for file.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/81357/ ===> from here, we deduced that it
>>> should be done at every new block request level, and not at the file
>>> level. This is because when file level request is initiated, the
>>> first thing is see if any existing block can be reused or not, before
>>> allocating new block (which then comes with reservation features - to
>>> ensure contiguity of datablocks).
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Peter Teoh
>>>
>>> Ernest Hemingway - "Never mistake motion for action."
>>>
>>
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Sandeep.

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