xfs: dynamic speculative EOF preallocation
Currently the size of the speculative preallocation during delayed
allocation is fixed by either the allocsize mount option of a
default size. We are seeing a lot of cases where we need to
recommend using the allocsize mount option to prevent fragmentation
when buffered writes land in the same AG.
Rather than using a fixed preallocation size by default (up to 64k),
make it dynamic by basing it on the current inode size. That way the
EOF preallocation will increase as the file size increases. Hence
for streaming writes we are much more likely to get large
preallocations exactly when we need it to reduce fragementation.
For default settings, the size of the initial extents is determined
by the number of parallel writers and the amount of memory in the
machine. For 4GB RAM and 4 concurrent 32GB file writes:
EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE AG AG-OFFSET TOTAL
0: [0..1048575]: 1048672..2097247 0 (1048672..2097247) 1048576
1: [1048576..2097151]: 5242976..6291551 0 (5242976..6291551) 1048576
2: [2097152..4194303]: 12583008..14680159 0 (12583008..14680159) 2097152
3: [4194304..8388607]: 25165920..29360223 0 (25165920..29360223) 4194304
4: [8388608..16777215]: 58720352..67108959 0 (58720352..67108959) 8388608
5: [16777216..33554423]: 117440584..134217791 0 (117440584..134217791) 16777208
6: [33554424..50331511]: 184549056..201326143 0 (184549056..201326143) 16777088
7: [50331512..67108599]: 251657408..268434495 0 (251657408..268434495) 16777088
and for 16 concurrent 16GB file writes:
EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE AG AG-OFFSET TOTAL
0: [0..262143]: 2490472..2752615 0 (2490472..2752615) 262144
1: [262144..524287]: 6291560..6553703 0 (6291560..6553703) 262144
2: [524288..1048575]: 13631592..14155879 0 (13631592..14155879) 524288
3: [1048576..2097151]: 30408808..31457383 0 (30408808..31457383) 1048576
4: [2097152..4194303]: 52428904..54526055 0 (52428904..54526055) 2097152
5: [4194304..8388607]: 104857704..109052007 0 (104857704..109052007) 4194304
6: [8388608..16777215]: 209715304..218103911 0 (209715304..218103911) 8388608
7: [16777216..33554423]: 452984848..469762055 0 (452984848..469762055) 16777208
Because it is hard to take back specualtive preallocation, cases
where there are large slow growing log files on a nearly full
filesystem may cause premature ENOSPC. Hence as the filesystem nears
full, the maximum dynamic prealloc size іs reduced according to this
table (based on 4k block size):
freespace max prealloc size
>5% full extent (8GB)
4-5% 2GB (8GB >> 2)
3-4% 1GB (8GB >> 3)
2-3% 512MB (8GB >> 4)
1-2% 256MB (8GB >> 5)
<1% 128MB (8GB >> 6)
This should reduce the amount of space held in speculative
preallocation for such cases.
The allocsize mount option turns off the dynamic behaviour and fixes
the prealloc size to whatever the mount option specifies. i.e. the
behaviour is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
index 5861b49..a62e897 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
@@ -103,6 +103,16 @@
xfs_mod_incore_sb(mp, field, delta, rsvd)
#endif
+/* dynamic preallocation free space thresholds, 5% down to 1% */
+enum {
+ XFS_LOWSP_1_PCNT = 0,
+ XFS_LOWSP_2_PCNT,
+ XFS_LOWSP_3_PCNT,
+ XFS_LOWSP_4_PCNT,
+ XFS_LOWSP_5_PCNT,
+ XFS_LOWSP_MAX,
+};
+
typedef struct xfs_mount {
struct super_block *m_super;
xfs_tid_t m_tid; /* next unused tid for fs */
@@ -202,6 +212,8 @@
__int64_t m_update_flags; /* sb flags we need to update
on the next remount,rw */
struct shrinker m_inode_shrink; /* inode reclaim shrinker */
+ int64_t m_low_space[XFS_LOWSP_MAX];
+ /* low free space thresholds */
} xfs_mount_t;
/*
@@ -379,6 +391,8 @@
extern int xfs_dev_is_read_only(struct xfs_mount *, char *);
+extern void xfs_set_low_space_thresholds(struct xfs_mount *);
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
extern void xfs_mod_sb(struct xfs_trans *, __int64_t);