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[07/10] libext2fs: use the rbtree bitmap by default when initializing a file system

Message ID 1324190558-7436-8-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu
State Accepted, archived
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Theodore Ts'o Dec. 18, 2011, 6:42 a.m. UTC
This change causes the max resident memory of mke2fs, as reported by
/usr/bin/time, to drop from 9296k to 5328k when formatting a 25
gig volume.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
---
 lib/ext2fs/initialize.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Comments

Lukas Czerner Dec. 19, 2011, 2:15 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> This change causes the max resident memory of mke2fs, as reported by
> /usr/bin/time, to drop from 9296k to 5328k when formatting a 25
> gig volume.

Just for the record, creating bigger file system will show much bigger
difference. For example when creating 100T file system with the old
bitarray backend it will consume 14GB of memory, but with the new rbtree
backend it will only consume 220 MB (reported by /usr/bin/time).

Actually the real allocated memory according to valgrind is 54MB for
rbtree and 3.74GB for bitmap backend. I assume that /usr/bin/time shows
amount of dirtied memory pages ??

A while ago I have done some testing on older version of e2fsprogs with
rbtree patches. The numbers might differ now, but the overall difference
between rbtree and bitmaps should be roughly the same. Here are some
graphs:

http://people.redhat.com/lczerner/e2fsprogs_memory/graphs.pdf

Thanks!
-Lukas

> 
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> ---
>  lib/ext2fs/initialize.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c b/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c
> index b050a0a..a63ea18 100644
> --- a/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c
> +++ b/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c
> @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ errcode_t ext2fs_initialize(const char *name, int flags,
>  	fs->magic = EXT2_ET_MAGIC_EXT2FS_FILSYS;
>  	fs->flags = flags | EXT2_FLAG_RW;
>  	fs->umask = 022;
> +	fs->default_bitmap_type = EXT2FS_BMAP64_RBTREE;
>  #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
>  	fs->flags |= EXT2_FLAG_SWAP_BYTES;
>  #endif
> 
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Lukas Czerner Dec. 19, 2011, 2:17 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Lukas Czerner wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> > This change causes the max resident memory of mke2fs, as reported by
> > /usr/bin/time, to drop from 9296k to 5328k when formatting a 25
> > gig volume.
> 
> Just for the record, creating bigger file system will show much bigger
> difference. For example when creating 100T file system with the old
> bitarray backend it will consume 14GB of memory, but with the new rbtree
> backend it will only consume 220 MB (reported by /usr/bin/time).
> 
> Actually the real allocated memory according to valgrind is 54MB for
> rbtree and 3.74GB for bitmap backend. I assume that /usr/bin/time shows
> amount of dirtied memory pages ??
> 
> A while ago I have done some testing on older version of e2fsprogs with
> rbtree patches. The numbers might differ now, but the overall difference
> between rbtree and bitmaps should be roughly the same. Here are some
> graphs:
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/lczerner/e2fsprogs_memory/graphs.pdf

Also the testing has been done on e2fsck, rather than mke2fs.

> 
> Thanks!
> -Lukas
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> > ---
> >  lib/ext2fs/initialize.c |    1 +
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c b/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c
> > index b050a0a..a63ea18 100644
> > --- a/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c
> > +++ b/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c
> > @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ errcode_t ext2fs_initialize(const char *name, int flags,
> >  	fs->magic = EXT2_ET_MAGIC_EXT2FS_FILSYS;
> >  	fs->flags = flags | EXT2_FLAG_RW;
> >  	fs->umask = 022;
> > +	fs->default_bitmap_type = EXT2FS_BMAP64_RBTREE;
> >  #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
> >  	fs->flags |= EXT2_FLAG_SWAP_BYTES;
> >  #endif
> > 
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Patch

diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c b/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c
index b050a0a..a63ea18 100644
--- a/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c
+++ b/lib/ext2fs/initialize.c
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@  errcode_t ext2fs_initialize(const char *name, int flags,
 	fs->magic = EXT2_ET_MAGIC_EXT2FS_FILSYS;
 	fs->flags = flags | EXT2_FLAG_RW;
 	fs->umask = 022;
+	fs->default_bitmap_type = EXT2FS_BMAP64_RBTREE;
 #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
 	fs->flags |= EXT2_FLAG_SWAP_BYTES;
 #endif