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authorMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>2010-04-05 18:17:14 -0700
committerJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>2010-05-05 18:18:07 -0700
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ocfs2: increase the default size of local alloc windows
I have observed that the current size of 8M gives us pretty poor fragmentation on multi-threaded workloads which do lots of writes. Generally, I can increase the size of local alloc windows and observe a marked decrease in fragmentation, even up and beyond window sizes of 512 megabytes. This makes sense for a couple reasons - larger local alloc means more room for reservation windows. On multi-node workloads the larger local alloc helps as well because we don't have to do window slides as often. Also, I removed the OCFS2_DEFAULT_LOCAL_ALLOC_SIZE constant as it is no longer used and the comment above it was out of date. To test fragmentation, I used a workload which launched 4 threads that did 4k writes into a series of about 140 alternating files. With resv_level=2, and a 4k/4k file system I observed the following average fragmentation for various localalloc= parameters: localalloc= avg. fragmentation 8 48 32 16 64 10 120 7 On larger cluster sizes, the difference is more dramatic. The new default size top out at 256M, which we'll only get for cluster sizes of 32K and above. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.h b/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.h
index 04195c67f7c1..1be9b5864460 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ int ocfs2_load_local_alloc(struct ocfs2_super *osb);
void ocfs2_shutdown_local_alloc(struct ocfs2_super *osb);
void ocfs2_la_set_sizes(struct ocfs2_super *osb, int requested_mb);
+unsigned int ocfs2_la_default_mb(struct ocfs2_super *osb);
int ocfs2_begin_local_alloc_recovery(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
int node_num,