On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 11:21:24 +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > One of the side-effects of mb_optimize_scan was that the optimized > functions to select next group to try were called even before we tried > the goal group. As a result we no longer allocate files close to > corresponding inodes as well as we don't try to expand currently > allocated extent in the same group. This results in reaim regression > with workfile.disk workload of upto 8% with many clients on my test > machine: > > [...] Applied, thanks! [1/5] ext4: Make mballoc try target group first even with mb_optimize_scan commit: 4fca50d440cc5d4dc570ad5484cc0b70b381bc2a [2/5] ext4: Avoid unnecessary spreading of allocations among groups commit: 1940265ede6683f6317cba0d428ce6505eaca944 [3/5] ext4: Make directory inode spreading reflect flexbg size commit: 613c5a85898d1cd44e68f28d65eccf64a8ace9cf [4/5] ext4: Use locality group preallocation for small closed files commit: a9f2a2931d0e197ab28c6007966053fdababd53f [5/5] ext4: Use buckets for cr 1 block scan instead of rbtree commit: 83e80a6e3543f37f74c8e48a5f305b054b65ce2a Best regards, -- Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>