linux.git/include/trace/events/ext4.h, branch v4.0

ext4: add optimization for the lazytime mount option

2015-02-05T07:45:00+00:00

Add an optimization for the MS_LAZYTIME mount option so that we will
opportunistically write out any inodes with the I_DIRTY_TIME flag set
in a particular inode table block when we need to update some inode in
that inode table block anyway.

Also add some temporary code so that we can set the lazytime mount
option without needing a modified /sbin/mount program which can set
MS_LAZYTIME.  We can eventually make this go away once util-linux has
added support.

Google-Bug-Id: 18297052

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ext4: change LRU to round-robin in extent status tree shrinker

2014-11-25T16:45:37+00:00

In this commit we discard the lru algorithm for inodes with extent
status tree because it takes significant effort to maintain a lru list
in extent status tree shrinker and the shrinker can take a long time to
scan this lru list in order to reclaim some objects.

We replace the lru ordering with a simple round-robin.  After that we
never need to keep a lru list.  That means that the list needn't be
sorted if the shrinker can not reclaim any objects in the first round.

Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: cache extent hole in extent status tree for ext4_da_map_blocks()

2014-11-25T16:44:37+00:00

Currently extent status tree doesn't cache extent hole when a write
looks up in extent tree to make sure whether a block has been allocated
or not.  In this case, we don't put extent hole in extent cache because
later this extent might be removed and a new delayed extent might be
added back.  But it will cause a defect when we do a lot of writes.  If
we don't put extent hole in extent cache, the following writes also need
to access extent tree to look at whether or not a block has been
allocated.  It brings a cache miss.  This commit fixes this defect.
Also if the inode doesn't have any extent, this extent hole will be
cached as well.

Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: fix block reservation for bigalloc filesystems

2014-11-25T16:41:49+00:00

For bigalloc filesystems we have to check whether newly requested inode
block isn't already part of a cluster for which we already have delayed
allocation reservation. This check happens in ext4_ext_map_blocks() and
that function sets EXT4_MAP_FROM_CLUSTER if that's the case. However if
ext4_da_map_blocks() finds in extent cache information about the block,
we don't call into ext4_ext_map_blocks() and thus we always end up
getting new reservation even if the space for cluster is already
reserved. This results in overreservation and premature ENOSPC reports.

Fix the problem by checking for existing cluster reservation already in
ext4_da_map_blocks(). That simplifies the logic and actually allows us
to get rid of the EXT4_MAP_FROM_CLUSTER flag completely.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: track extent status tree shrinker delay statictics

2014-09-02T02:26:49+00:00

This commit adds some statictics in extent status tree shrinker.  The
purpose to add these is that we want to collect more details when we
encounter a stall caused by extent status tree shrinker.  Here we count
the following statictics:
  stats:
    the number of all objects on all extent status trees
    the number of reclaimable objects on lru list
    cache hits/misses
    the last sorted interval
    the number of inodes on lru list
  average:
    scan time for shrinking some objects
    the number of shrunk objects
  maximum:
    the inode that has max nr. of objects on lru list
    the maximum scan time for shrinking some objects

The output looks like below:
  $ cat /proc/fs/ext4/sda1/es_shrinker_info
  stats:
    28228 objects
    6341 reclaimable objects
    5281/631 cache hits/misses
    586 ms last sorted interval
    250 inodes on lru list
  average:
    153 us scan time
    128 shrunk objects
  maximum:
    255 inode (255 objects, 198 reclaimable)
    125723 us max scan time

If the lru list has never been sorted, the following line will not be
printed:
    586ms last sorted interval
If there is an empty lru list, the following lines also will not be
printed:
    250 inodes on lru list
  ...
  maximum:
    255 inode (255 objects, 198 reclaimable)
    0 us max scan time

Meanwhile in this commit a new trace point is defined to print some
details in __ext4_es_shrink().

Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: improve extents status tree trace point

2014-09-02T02:22:13+00:00

This commit improves the trace point of extents status tree.  We rename
trace_ext4_es_shrink_enter in ext4_es_count() because it is also used
in ext4_es_scan() and we can not identify them from the result.

Further this commit fixes a variable name in trace point in order to
keep consistency with others.

Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: rename uninitialized extents to unwritten

2014-04-21T03:45:47+00:00

Currently in ext4 there is quite a mess when it comes to naming
unwritten extents. Sometimes we call it uninitialized and sometimes we
refer to it as unwritten.

The right name for the extent which has been allocated but does not
contain any written data is _unwritten_. Other file systems are
using this name consistently, even the buffer head state refers to it as
unwritten. We need to fix this confusion in ext4.

This commit changes every reference to an uninitialized extent (meaning
allocated but unwritten) to unwritten extent. This includes comments,
function names and variable names. It even covers abbreviation of the
word uninitialized (such as uninit) and some misspellings.

This commit does not change any of the code paths at all. This has been
confirmed by comparing md5sums of the assembly code of each object file
after all the function names were stripped from it.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: get rid of EXT4_MAP_UNINIT flag

2014-04-21T03:44:47+00:00

Currently EXT4_MAP_UNINIT is used in dioread_nolock case to mark the
cases where we're using dioread_nolock and we're writing into either
unallocated, or unwritten extent, because we need to make sure that
any DIO write into that inode will wait for the extent conversion.

However EXT4_MAP_UNINIT is not only entirely misleading name but also
unnecessary because we can check for EXT4_MAP_UNWRITTEN in the
dioread_nolock case instead.

This commit removes EXT4_MAP_UNINIT flag.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: remove temporary shim used to merge COLLAPSE_RANGE and ZERO_RANGE

2014-04-15T03:37:35+00:00

In retrospect, this was a bad way to handle things, since it limited
testing of these patches.  We should just get the VFS level changes
merged in first.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate

2014-03-18T22:05:35+00:00

Introduce new FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate. This has the same
functionality as xfs ioctl XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE.

It can be used to convert a range of file to zeros preferably without
issuing data IO. Blocks should be preallocated for the regions that span
holes in the file, and the entire range is preferable converted to
unwritten extents

This can be also used to preallocate blocks past EOF in the same way as
with fallocate. Flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE which should cause the inode
size to remain the same.

Also add appropriate tracepoints.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"