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After we optimized the block group lock, we found another lock contention issue when running will-it-scale/fallocate2 with multiple processes. The fallocate's block allocation and the truncate's block release were fighting over the s_md_lock. The problem is, this lock protects totally different things in those two processes: the list of freed data blocks (s_freed_data_list) when releasing, and where to start looking for new blocks (mb_last_group) when allocating. Now we only need to track s_mb_last_group and no longer need to track s_mb_last_start, so we don't need the s_md_lock lock to ensure that the two are consistent. Since s_mb_last_group is merely a hint and doesn't require strong synchronization, READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE is sufficient. Besides, the s_mb_last_group data type only requires ext4_group_t (i.e., unsigned int), rendering unsigned long superfluous. Performance test data follows: Test: Running will-it-scale/fallocate2 on CPU-bound containers. Observation: Average fallocate operations per container per second. |CPU: Kunpeng 920 | P80 | P1 | |Memory: 512GB |------------------------|-------------------------| |960GB SSD (0.5GB/s)| base | patched | base | patched | |-------------------|-------|----------------|--------|----------------| |mb_optimize_scan=0 | 4821 | 9636 (+99.8%) | 314065 | 337597 (+7.4%) | |mb_optimize_scan=1 | 4784 | 4834 (+1.04%) | 316344 | 341440 (+7.9%) | |CPU: AMD 9654 * 2 | P96 | P1 | |Memory: 1536GB |------------------------|-------------------------| |960GB SSD (1GB/s) | base | patched | base | patched | |-------------------|-------|----------------|--------|----------------| |mb_optimize_scan=0 | 15371 | 22341 (+45.3%) | 205851 | 219707 (+6.7%) | |mb_optimize_scan=1 | 6101 | 9177 (+50.4%) | 207373 | 215732 (+4.0%) | Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250714130327.1830534-5-libaokun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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