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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/mballoc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index f8e37cf2c2d..63dd5670334 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ * list. In case of inode preallocation we follow a list of heuristics * based on file size. This can be found in ext4_mb_normalize_request. If * we are doing a group prealloc we try to normalize the request to - * sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc. Default value of s_mb_group_prealloc is + * sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc. The default value of s_mb_group_prealloc is + * dependent on the cluster size; for non-bigalloc file systems, it is * 512 blocks. This can be tuned via * /sys/fs/ext4/<partition>/mb_group_prealloc. The value is represented in * terms of number of blocks. If we have mounted the file system with -O @@ -2473,7 +2474,20 @@ int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb, int needs_recovery) sbi->s_mb_stats = MB_DEFAULT_STATS; sbi->s_mb_stream_request = MB_DEFAULT_STREAM_THRESHOLD; sbi->s_mb_order2_reqs = MB_DEFAULT_ORDER2_REQS; - sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc = MB_DEFAULT_GROUP_PREALLOC; + /* + * The default group preallocation is 512, which for 4k block + * sizes translates to 2 megabytes. However for bigalloc file + * systems, this is probably too big (i.e, if the cluster size + * is 1 megabyte, then group preallocation size becomes half a + * gigabyte!). As a default, we will keep a two megabyte + * group pralloc size for cluster sizes up to 64k, and after + * that, we will force a minimum group preallocation size of + * 32 clusters. This translates to 8 megs when the cluster + * size is 256k, and 32 megs when the cluster size is 1 meg, + * which seems reasonable as a default. + */ + sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc = max(MB_DEFAULT_GROUP_PREALLOC >> + sbi->s_cluster_bits, 32); /* * If there is a s_stripe > 1, then we set the s_mb_group_prealloc * to the lowest multiple of s_stripe which is bigger than |