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ext4: Speedup ext4 orphan inode handling
Ext4 orphan inode handling is a bottleneck for workloads which heavily truncate / unlink small files since it contends on the global s_orphan_mutex lock (and generally it's difficult to improve scalability of the ondisk linked list of orphaned inodes). This patch implements new way of handling orphan inodes. Instead of linking orphaned inode into a linked list, we store it's inode number in a new special file which we call "orphan file". Only if there's no more space in the orphan file (too many inodes are currently orphaned) we fall back to using old style linked list. Currently we protect operations in the orphan file with a spinlock for simplicity but even in this setting we can substantially reduce the length of the critical section and thus speedup some workloads. In the next patch we improve this by making orphan handling lockless. Note that the change is backwards compatible when the filesystem is clean - the existence of the orphan file is a compat feature, we set another ro-compat feature indicating orphan file needs scanning for orphaned inodes when mounting filesystem read-write. This ro-compat feature gets cleared on unmount / remount read-only. Some performance data from 80 CPU Xeon Server with 512 GB of RAM, filesystem located on SSD, average of 5 runs: stress-orphan (microbenchmark truncating files byte-by-byte from N processes in parallel) Threads Time Time Vanilla Patched 1 1.057200 0.945600 2 1.680400 1.331800 4 2.547000 1.995000 8 7.049400 6.424200 16 14.827800 14.937600 32 40.948200 33.038200 64 87.787400 60.823600 128 206.504000 122.941400 So we can see significant wins all over the board. Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
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