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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 7c0841ecde6..0df5ee102b6 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;