Re: [PATCH 8/8] ext4: Remove the logic to trim inode PAs

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On Fri 07-10-22 02:16:19, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> Earlier, inode PAs were stored in a linked list. This caused a need to
> periodically trim the list down inorder to avoid growing it to a very
> large size, as this would severly affect performance during list
> iteration.
> 
> Recent patches changed this list to an rbtree, and since the tree scales
> up much better, we no longer need to have the trim functionality, hence
> remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

								Honza

> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst |  3 ---
>  fs/ext4/ext4.h                     |  1 -
>  fs/ext4/mballoc.c                  | 20 --------------------
>  fs/ext4/mballoc.h                  |  5 -----
>  fs/ext4/sysfs.c                    |  2 --
>  5 files changed, 31 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
> index 4c559e08d11e..5740d85439ff 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
> @@ -489,9 +489,6 @@ Files in /sys/fs/ext4/<devname>:
>          multiple of this tuning parameter if the stripe size is not set in the
>          ext4 superblock
>  
> -  mb_max_inode_prealloc
> -        The maximum length of per-inode ext4_prealloc_space list.
> -
>    mb_max_to_scan
>          The maximum number of extents the multiblock allocator will search to
>          find the best extent.
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> index c23be3b45442..1d2ed29278e2 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> @@ -1612,7 +1612,6 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
>  	unsigned int s_mb_stats;
>  	unsigned int s_mb_order2_reqs;
>  	unsigned int s_mb_group_prealloc;
> -	unsigned int s_mb_max_inode_prealloc;
>  	unsigned int s_max_dir_size_kb;
>  	/* where last allocation was done - for stream allocation */
>  	unsigned long s_mb_last_group;
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> index 33896e47059b..9c446d87a61c 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> @@ -3419,7 +3419,6 @@ int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb)
>  	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_max_inode_prealloc = MB_DEFAULT_MAX_INODE_PREALLOC;
>  	/*
>  	 * The default group preallocation is 512, which for 4k block
>  	 * sizes translates to 2 megabytes.  However for bigalloc file
> @@ -5537,29 +5536,11 @@ static void ext4_mb_add_n_trim(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
>  	return ;
>  }
>  
> -/*
> - * if per-inode prealloc list is too long, trim some PA
> - */
> -static void ext4_mb_trim_inode_pa(struct inode *inode)
> -{
> -	struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
> -	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
> -	int count, delta;
> -
> -	count = atomic_read(&ei->i_prealloc_active);
> -	delta = (sbi->s_mb_max_inode_prealloc >> 2) + 1;
> -	if (count > sbi->s_mb_max_inode_prealloc + delta) {
> -		count -= sbi->s_mb_max_inode_prealloc;
> -		ext4_discard_preallocations(inode, count);
> -	}
> -}
> -
>  /*
>   * release all resource we used in allocation
>   */
>  static int ext4_mb_release_context(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
>  {
> -	struct inode *inode = ac->ac_inode;
>  	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(ac->ac_sb);
>  	struct ext4_prealloc_space *pa = ac->ac_pa;
>  	if (pa) {
> @@ -5595,7 +5576,6 @@ static int ext4_mb_release_context(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
>  	if (ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_GROUP_ALLOC)
>  		mutex_unlock(&ac->ac_lg->lg_mutex);
>  	ext4_mb_collect_stats(ac);
> -	ext4_mb_trim_inode_pa(inode);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.h b/fs/ext4/mballoc.h
> index f8e8ee493867..6d85ee8674a6 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.h
> @@ -73,11 +73,6 @@
>   */
>  #define MB_DEFAULT_GROUP_PREALLOC	512
>  
> -/*
> - * maximum length of inode prealloc list
> - */
> -#define MB_DEFAULT_MAX_INODE_PREALLOC	512
> -
>  /*
>   * Number of groups to search linearly before performing group scanning
>   * optimization.
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/sysfs.c b/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
> index d233c24ea342..f0d42cf44c71 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
> @@ -214,7 +214,6 @@ EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_min_to_scan, s_mb_min_to_scan);
>  EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_order2_req, s_mb_order2_reqs);
>  EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_stream_req, s_mb_stream_request);
>  EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_group_prealloc, s_mb_group_prealloc);
> -EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_max_inode_prealloc, s_mb_max_inode_prealloc);
>  EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_max_linear_groups, s_mb_max_linear_groups);
>  EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(extent_max_zeroout_kb, s_extent_max_zeroout_kb);
>  EXT4_ATTR(trigger_fs_error, 0200, trigger_test_error);
> @@ -264,7 +263,6 @@ static struct attribute *ext4_attrs[] = {
>  	ATTR_LIST(mb_order2_req),
>  	ATTR_LIST(mb_stream_req),
>  	ATTR_LIST(mb_group_prealloc),
> -	ATTR_LIST(mb_max_inode_prealloc),
>  	ATTR_LIST(mb_max_linear_groups),
>  	ATTR_LIST(max_writeback_mb_bump),
>  	ATTR_LIST(extent_max_zeroout_kb),
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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