mainlining shenanigans
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When delayed allocation is disabled (either through mount option or because we are running low on free space), ext4_write_begin() allocates blocks with EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_CREATE_EXT flag. With this flag extent merging is disabled and since ext4_write_begin() is called for each page separately, we end up with a *lot* of 1 block extents in the extent tree and following writeback is writing 1 block at a time which results in very poor write throughput (4 MB/s instead of 200 MB/s). These days when ext4_get_block_unwritten() is used only by ext4_write_begin(), ext4_page_mkwrite() and inline data conversion, we can safely allow extent merging to happen from these paths since following writeback will happen on different boundaries anyway. So use EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNRIT_EXT instead which restores the performance. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220520111402.4252-1-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> |
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Linux kernel
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