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authorTao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>2009-02-25 00:53:25 +0800
committerMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>2009-04-03 11:39:18 -0700
commitfeb473a6e8bd19297d0f3bb377b25055c0228c0a (patch)
tree4ceae3a185fc430c8927dc0bbb197a3694c37194 /fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
parent60ca81e82dae4aa2e8ae84cf96b4d08535931669 (diff)
downloadlinux-feb473a6e8bd19297d0f3bb377b25055c0228c0a.tar.gz
ocfs2: Optimize inode group allocation by recording last used group.
In ocfs2, the block group search looks for the "emptiest" group
to allocate from. So if the allocator has many equally(or almost
equally) empty groups, new block group will tend to get spread
out amongst them.

So we add osb_inode_alloc_group in ocfs2_super to record the last
used inode allocation group.
For more details, please see
http://oss.oracle.com/osswiki/OCFS2/DesignDocs/InodeAllocationStrategy.

I have done some basic test and the results are a ten times improvement on
some cold-cache stat workloads.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h')
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diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
index e1844d5736c4..b65d19c9756d 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
@@ -343,6 +343,9 @@ struct ocfs2_super
 
 	unsigned int			osb_dx_mask;
 	u32				osb_dx_seed[4];
+
+	/* the group we used to allocate inodes. */
+	u64				osb_inode_alloc_group;
 };
 
 #define OCFS2_SB(sb)	    ((struct ocfs2_super *)(sb)->s_fs_info)