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From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: increase prealloc size to double that of the previous extent
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 12:43:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130307184354.GO22182@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361231827-58766-1-git-send-email-bfoster@redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 06:57:07PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> The updated speculative preallocation algorithm becomes less
> effective in situations with a high number of concurrent,
> sequential writers. In running 32 sequential writers on a system
> with 32GB RAM, preallocs become fixed at a value of around 128MB.
> Update the heuristic to base the size of the prealloc on double
> the size of the preceding extent. This preserves the original
> aggressive speculative preallocation behavior at a slight cost of
> increasing the size of preallocated data regions following holes of
> sparse files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

Applied.

-Ben

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-07 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-18 23:57 [PATCH] xfs: increase prealloc size to double that of the previous extent Brian Foster
2013-02-19  2:46 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-07 18:43 ` Ben Myers [this message]

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