LU-16691 ldiskfs: limit length of per-inode prealloc list
In the scenario of writing sparse files, the per-inode prealloc list may
be very long, resulting in high overhead for ext4_mb_use_preallocated().
To circumvent this problem, we limit the maximum length of per-inode
prealloc list to 512 and allow users to modify it.
After patching, we observed that the sys ratio of cpu has dropped, and
the system throughput has increased significantly. We created a process
to write the sparse file, and the running time of the process on the
fixed kernel was significantly reduced, as follows:
Running time on unfixed kernel:
# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat
real 0m2.051s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m2.026s
Running time on fixed kernel:
# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat
real 0m0.471s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.395s
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d7a98178-056b-6db5-6bce-4ead23f4a257@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <brookxu@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Alex Zhuravlev <bzzz@whamcloud.com>
Change-Id: I5e4ea3acfc07f6e69890690211bf6a34c1230979
Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/c/fs/lustre-release/+/50481
Tested-by: jenkins <devops@whamcloud.com>
Tested-by: Maloo <maloo@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <green@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Cheremencev <scherementsev@ddn.com>