On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 08:45:43PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Recent changes to the log size scaling have resulted in using the
> default size multiplier for the log size even on small filesystems.
> Commit 88cd79b ("xfs: Add xfs_log_rlimit.c") changed the calculation
> of the maximum transaction size that the kernel would issues and
> that significantly increased the minimum size of the default log.
> As such the size of the log on small filesystems was typically
> larger than the prefious default, even though the previous default
> was still larger than the minimum needed.
>
> Rework the default log size calculation such that it will use the
> original log size default if it is larger than the minimum log size
> required, and only use a larger log if the configuration of the
> filesystem requires it.
>
> This is especially obvious in xfs/216, where the default log size is
> 10MB all the way up to 16GB filesystems. The current mkfs selects a
> log size of 50MB for the same size filesystems and this is
> unnecessarily large.
>
> Return the scaling of the log size for small filesystems to
> something similar to what xfs/216 expects.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
The code for the <16GB case still looks funny to me, but we beat that
horse to death on irc. ;) I do like the breakdown of logic to select the
log size calculation based on the particular situation, and the end
result seems to be what we want. The additional comments help too. :)
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>
> mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c b/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c
> index d82128c..f7cf394 100644
> --- a/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c
> +++ b/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c
> @@ -2366,32 +2366,40 @@ _("size %s specified for log subvolume is too large, maximum is %lld blocks\n"),
> } else if (!loginternal && !xi.logdev) {
> logblocks = 0;
> } else if (loginternal && !logsize) {
> - /*
> - * With a 2GB max log size, default to maximum size
> - * at 4TB. This keeps the same ratio from the older
> - * max log size of 128M at 256GB fs size. IOWs,
> - * the ratio of fs size to log size is 2048:1.
> - */
> - logblocks = (dblocks << blocklog) / 2048;
> - logblocks = logblocks >> blocklog;
> - logblocks = MAX(min_logblocks, logblocks);
>
> - /*
> - * If the default log size doesn't fit in the AG size, use the
> - * minimum log size instead. This ensures small filesystems
> - * don't use excessive amounts of space for the log.
> - */
> - if (min_logblocks * XFS_DFL_LOG_FACTOR >= agsize) {
> + if (dblocks < GIGABYTES(1, blocklog)) {
> + /* tiny filesystems get minimum sized logs. */
> logblocks = min_logblocks;
> + } else if (dblocks < GIGABYTES(16, blocklog)) {
> +
> + /*
> + * For small filesystems, we want to use the
> + * XFS_MIN_LOG_BYTES for filesystems smaller than 16G if
> + * at all possible, ramping up to 128MB at 256GB.
> + */
> + logblocks = MIN(XFS_MIN_LOG_BYTES >> blocklog,
> + min_logblocks * XFS_DFL_LOG_FACTOR);
> } else {
> - logblocks = MAX(logblocks,
> - MAX(XFS_DFL_LOG_SIZE,
> - min_logblocks * XFS_DFL_LOG_FACTOR));
> + /*
> + * With a 2GB max log size, default to maximum size
> + * at 4TB. This keeps the same ratio from the older
> + * max log size of 128M at 256GB fs size. IOWs,
> + * the ratio of fs size to log size is 2048:1.
> + */
> + logblocks = (dblocks << blocklog) / 2048;
> + logblocks = logblocks >> blocklog;
> + logblocks = MAX(min_logblocks, logblocks);
> }
> +
> + /* make sure the log fits wholly within an AG */
> + if (logblocks >= agsize)
> + logblocks = min_logblocks;
> +
> + /* and now clamp the size to the maximum supported size */
> logblocks = MIN(logblocks, XFS_MAX_LOG_BLOCKS);
> - if ((logblocks << blocklog) > XFS_MAX_LOG_BYTES) {
> + if ((logblocks << blocklog) > XFS_MAX_LOG_BYTES)
> logblocks = XFS_MAX_LOG_BYTES >> blocklog;
> - }
> +
> }
> validate_log_size(logblocks, blocklog, min_logblocks);
>
> --
> 1.8.4.rc3
>
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