When copying up within the same fs, try to use vfs_clone_file_range(). This is very efficient when lower and upper are on the same fs with file reflink support. If vfs_clone_file_range() fails for any reason, copy up falls back to the regular data copy code. Tested correct behavior when lower and upper are on: 1. same ext4 (copy) 2. same xfs + reflink patches + mkfs.xfs (copy) 3. same xfs + reflink patches + mkfs.xfs -m reflink=1 (reflink) 4. different xfs + reflink patches + mkfs.xfs -m reflink=1 (copy) For comparison, on my laptop, xfstest overlay/001 (copy up of large sparse files) takes less than 1 second in the xfs reflink setup vs. 25 seconds on the rest of the setups. Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c index 43fdc27..93f0a34 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -136,6 +136,13 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_data(struct path *old, struct path *new, loff_t len) goto out_fput; } + /* Try to use clone_file_range to clone up within the same fs */ + error = vfs_clone_file_range(old_file, 0, new_file, 0, len); + if (!error) + goto out; + /* Couldn't clone, so now we try to copy the data */ + error = 0; + /* FIXME: copy up sparse files efficiently */ while (len) { size_t this_len = OVL_COPY_UP_CHUNK_SIZE; @@ -161,6 +168,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_data(struct path *old, struct path *new, loff_t len) len -= bytes; } +out: fput(new_file); out_fput: fput(old_file); -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html