ext4: Speed up FITRIM by recording flags in ext4_group_info

In ext4, when FITRIM is called every time, we iterate all the
groups and do trim one by one. It is a bit time wasting if the
group has been trimmed and there is no change since the last
trim.

So this patch adds a new flag in ext4_group_info->bb_state to
indicate that the group has been trimmed, and it will be cleared
if some blocks is freed(in release_blocks_on_commit). Another
trim_minlen is added in ext4_sb_info to record the last minlen
we use to trim the volume, so that if the caller provide a small
one, we will go on the trim regardless of the bb_state.

A simple test with my intel x25m ssd:
df -h shows:
/dev/sdb1              40G   21G   17G  56% /mnt/ext4
Block size:               4096

run the FITRIM with the following parameter:
range.start = 0;
range.len = UINT64_MAX;
range.minlen = 1048576;

without the patch:
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m5.505s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m1.224s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m5.359s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m1.178s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m5.228s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m1.151s

with the patch:
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m5.625s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m1.269s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m0.002s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.001s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m0.002s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.001s

A big improvement for the 2nd and 3rd run.

Even after I delete some big image files, it is still much
faster than iterating the whole disk.

[root@boyu-tm test]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m1.217s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.196s

Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

2 files changed, 32 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index d13f3b50988..62cee2b6fe7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1215,6 +1215,9 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
 
 	/* Kernel thread for multiple mount protection */
 	struct task_struct *s_mmp_tsk;
+
+	/* record the last minlen when FITRIM is called. */
+	atomic_t s_last_trim_minblks;
 };
 
 static inline struct ext4_sb_info *EXT4_SB(struct super_block *sb)
@@ -2080,11 +2083,19 @@ struct ext4_group_info {
 					 * 5 free 8-block regions. */
 };
 
-#define EXT4_GROUP_INFO_NEED_INIT_BIT	0
+#define EXT4_GROUP_INFO_NEED_INIT_BIT		0
+#define EXT4_GROUP_INFO_WAS_TRIMMED_BIT		1
 
 #define EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(grp)	\
 	(test_bit(EXT4_GROUP_INFO_NEED_INIT_BIT, &((grp)->bb_state)))
 
+#define EXT4_MB_GRP_WAS_TRIMMED(grp)	\
+	(test_bit(EXT4_GROUP_INFO_WAS_TRIMMED_BIT, &((grp)->bb_state)))
+#define EXT4_MB_GRP_SET_TRIMMED(grp)	\
+	(set_bit(EXT4_GROUP_INFO_WAS_TRIMMED_BIT, &((grp)->bb_state)))
+#define EXT4_MB_GRP_CLEAR_TRIMMED(grp)	\
+	(clear_bit(EXT4_GROUP_INFO_WAS_TRIMMED_BIT, &((grp)->bb_state)))
+
 #define EXT4_MAX_CONTENTION		8
 #define EXT4_CONTENTION_THRESHOLD	2
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 7aa4c16caca..73c254085a4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2628,6 +2628,15 @@ static void release_blocks_on_commit(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *txn)
 		rb_erase(&entry->node, &(db->bb_free_root));
 		mb_free_blocks(NULL, &e4b, entry->start_blk, entry->count);
 
+		/*
+		 * Clear the trimmed flag for the group so that the next
+		 * ext4_trim_fs can trim it.
+		 * If the volume is mounted with -o discard, online discard
+		 * is supported and the free blocks will be trimmed online.
+		 */
+		if (!test_opt(sb, DISCARD))
+			EXT4_MB_GRP_CLEAR_TRIMMED(db);
+
 		if (!db->bb_free_root.rb_node) {
 			/* No more items in the per group rb tree
 			 * balance refcounts from ext4_mb_free_metadata()
@@ -4838,6 +4847,10 @@ ext4_trim_all_free(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 	bitmap = e4b.bd_bitmap;
 
 	ext4_lock_group(sb, group);
+	if (EXT4_MB_GRP_WAS_TRIMMED(e4b.bd_info) &&
+	    minblocks >= atomic_read(&EXT4_SB(sb)->s_last_trim_minblks))
+		goto out;
+
 	start = (e4b.bd_info->bb_first_free > start) ?
 		e4b.bd_info->bb_first_free : start;
 
@@ -4869,6 +4882,10 @@ ext4_trim_all_free(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 		if ((e4b.bd_info->bb_free - free_count) < minblocks)
 			break;
 	}
+
+	if (!ret)
+		EXT4_MB_GRP_SET_TRIMMED(e4b.bd_info);
+out:
 	ext4_unlock_group(sb, group);
 	ext4_mb_unload_buddy(&e4b);
 
@@ -4957,6 +4974,9 @@ int ext4_trim_fs(struct super_block *sb, struct fstrim_range *range)
 	}
 	range->len = trimmed * sb->s_blocksize;
 
+	if (!ret)
+		atomic_set(&EXT4_SB(sb)->s_last_trim_minblks, minlen);
+
 out:
 	return ret;
 }