Hi, On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:27:53AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:18:03AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > xfs: align initial file allocations correctly. > > > > > > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > The function xfs_bmap_isaeof() is used to indicate that an > > > allocation is occurring at or past the end of file, and as such > > > should be aligned to the underlying storage geometry if possible. > > > > > > Commit 27a3f8f ("xfs: introduce xfs_bmap_last_extent") changed the > > > behaviour of this function for empty files - it turned off > > > allocation alignment for this case accidentally. Hence large initial > > > allocations from direct IO are not getting correctly aligned to the > > > underlying geometry, and that is cause write performance to drop in > > > alignment sensitive configurations. > > > > > > Fix it by considering allocation into empty files as requiring > > > aligned allocation again. > > > > Seems like this one didn't get picked up yet? > > I'm about to resend all my outstanding patches... Sorry I didn't see that one. If you stick the keyword 'patch' in the subject I tend to do a bit better. Regards, Ben _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs