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[2/5] ext4: speed up group trim with the right free block count.

Message ID 1309534076-2784-2-git-send-email-tm@tao.ma
State Accepted, archived
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Tao Ma July 1, 2011, 3:27 p.m. UTC 
From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>

When we trim some free blocks in a group of ext4, we should
calculate the free blocks properly and check whether there are
enough freed blocks left for us to trim. Current solution will
only calculate free spaces if they are large for a trim which
isn't appropriate.

Let us see a small example:
a group has 1.5M free which are 300k, 300k, 300k, 300k, 300k.
And minblocks is 1M. With current solution, we have to iterate
the whole group since these 300k will never be subtracted from
1.5M. But actually we should exit after we find the first 2
free spaces since the left 3 chunks only sum up to 900K if we
subtract the first 600K although they can't be trimed.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Theodore Ts'o July 11, 2011, 4:06 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 11:27:53PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
> 
> When we trim some free blocks in a group of ext4, we should
> calculate the free blocks properly and check whether there are
> enough freed blocks left for us to trim. Current solution will
> only calculate free spaces if they are large for a trim which
> isn't appropriate.
> 
> Let us see a small example:
> a group has 1.5M free which are 300k, 300k, 300k, 300k, 300k.
> And minblocks is 1M. With current solution, we have to iterate
> the whole group since these 300k will never be subtracted from
> 1.5M. But actually we should exit after we find the first 2
> free spaces since the left 3 chunks only sum up to 900K if we
> subtract the first 600K although they can't be trimed.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>

Added to the ext4 tree, thanks.

					- Ted
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 604b706..3bd06ca 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4823,7 +4823,7 @@  ext4_trim_all_free(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 		   ext4_grpblk_t minblocks)
 {
 	void *bitmap;
-	ext4_grpblk_t next, count = 0;
+	ext4_grpblk_t next, count = 0, free_count = 0;
 	struct ext4_buddy e4b;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -4850,6 +4850,7 @@  ext4_trim_all_free(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 					 next - start, group, &e4b);
 			count += next - start;
 		}
+		free_count += next - start;
 		start = next + 1;
 
 		if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
@@ -4863,7 +4864,7 @@  ext4_trim_all_free(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 			ext4_lock_group(sb, group);
 		}
 
-		if ((e4b.bd_info->bb_free - count) < minblocks)
+		if ((e4b.bd_info->bb_free - free_count) < minblocks)
 			break;
 	}
 	ext4_unlock_group(sb, group);