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| author | Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> | 2010-04-05 18:17:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> | 2010-05-05 18:18:07 -0700 |
| commit | b07f8f24dfe54da0f074b78949044842e8df881f (patch) | |
| tree | 8cc24b0a1e02a9b7f1241fbfecca50ac6881b938 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 6b82021b9e91cd689fdffadbcdb9a42597bbe764 (diff) | |
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ocfs2: change default reservation window sizes
The default reservation size of 4 (32-bit windows) is a bit too ambitious.
Scale it back to 16 bits (resv_level=2). I have been testing various sizes
on a 4-node cluster which runs a mixed workload that is heavily threaded.
With a 256MB local alloc, I get *roughly* the following levels of average file
fragmentation:
resv_level=0 70%
resv_level=1 21%
resv_level=2 23%
resv_level=3 24%
resv_level=4 60%
resv_level=5 did not test
resv_level=6 60%
resv_level=2 seemed like a good compromise between not letting windows be
too small, but not so big that heavier workloads will immediately suffer
without tuning.
This patch also change the behavior of directory reservations - they now
track file reservations. The previous compromise of giving directory
windows only 8 bits wound up fragmenting more at some window sizes because
file allocations had smaller unused windows to poach from.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt index 412df9095937..32339e584a9a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt @@ -80,6 +80,6 @@ user_xattr (*) Enables Extended User Attributes. nouser_xattr Disables Extended User Attributes. acl Enables POSIX Access Control Lists support. noacl (*) Disables POSIX Access Control Lists support. -resv_level=4 (*) Set how agressive allocation reservations will be. +resv_level=2 (*) Set how agressive allocation reservations will be. Valid values are between 0 (reservations off) to 8 (maximum space for reservations). |