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authorZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>2012-08-17 09:54:17 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-08-17 09:54:17 -0400
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ext4: make the zero-out chunk size tunable
Currently in ext4 the length of zero-out chunk is set to 7 file system blocks. But if an inode has uninitailized extents from using fallocate to preallocate space, and the workload issues many random writes, this can cause a fragmented extent tree that will unnecessarily grow the extent tree. So create a new sysfs tunable, extent_max_zeroout_kb, which controls the maximum size where blocks will be zeroed out instead of creating a new uninitialized extent. The default of this has been sent to 32kb. CC: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net> CC: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 7c0841ecde6c..0df5ee102b61 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1271,6 +1271,9 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
unsigned long s_sectors_written_start;
u64 s_kbytes_written;
+ /* the size of zero-out chunk */
+ unsigned int s_extent_max_zeroout_kb;
+
unsigned int s_log_groups_per_flex;
struct flex_groups *s_flex_groups;
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