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fill_holes() currently merges a punched hole with either the previous
or the next file extent item, but never both in the same call. When
holes are punched in a non-sequential order this leaves consecutive
hole items in the inode's subvolume tree that should have been collapsed
into a single one.
This is a minor metadata optimization that reduces the number of file
extent items when holes are punched in non-sequential order. While
having extra file extent items is harmless and has no functional
impact, reducing metadata overhead can benefit workloads with heavily
fragmented hole patterns.
For example:
fallocate -p -o 4K -l 4K ${FILE}
fallocate -p -o 12K -l 4K ${FILE}
fallocate -p -o 8K -l 4K ${FILE}
After the third punch the [4K, 8K) and [12K, 16K) holes become
adjacent to the new [8K, 12K) hole, but fill_holes() merges only one
side and leaves two separate hole items ([4K, 12K) and [12K, 16K))
instead of the expected single [4K, 16K) hole item.
Fix this by checking both path->slots[0] - 1 and path->slots[0] in one
pass:
- If only the previous slot is mergeable, extend it forward as
before.
- If only the next slot is mergeable, extend it backward and update
its key offset as before.
- If both are mergeable, extend the previous item to cover the new
hole plus the next item, and remove the redundant next item with
btrfs_del_items().
Because the merge path may now delete an item, switch the initial
btrfs_search_slot() call from a plain lookup (ins_len = 0) to a
search-for-deletion (ins_len = -1), so the leaf is prepared for a
possible item removal.
Note: This optimization only applies to filesystems without the
NO_HOLES feature enabled. Since NO_HOLES is now the default, this
primarily benefits older filesystems or those explicitly created with
NO_HOLES disabled.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chen <davechen@synology.com>
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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