From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Certain workloads fragment files on XFS very badly, such as a software package that creates a number of threads, each of which repeatedly run the sequence: open a file, perform a synchronous write, and close the file, which defeats the speculative preallocation mechanism. We work around this problem by only deleting posteof blocks the /first/ time a file is closed to preserve the behavior that unpacking a tarball lays out files one after the other with no gaps. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c index d50cbd0eb260..f0e44c96b769 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c @@ -1381,9 +1381,7 @@ xfs_release( if (error) goto out_unlock; - /* delalloc blocks after truncation means it really is dirty */ - if (ip->i_delayed_blks) - xfs_iflags_set(ip, XFS_IDIRTY_RELEASE); + xfs_iflags_set(ip, XFS_IDIRTY_RELEASE); } out_unlock:
