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When allocating data blocks, if the first try (goal allocation) fails and stream allocation is on, it tries a global goal starting from the last group we used (s_mb_last_group). This helps cluster large files together to reduce free space fragmentation, and the data block contiguity also accelerates write-back to disk. However, when multiple processes allocate blocks, having just one global goal means they all fight over the same group. This drastically lowers the chances of extents merging and leads to much worse file fragmentation. To mitigate this multi-process contention, we now employ multiple global goals, with the number of goals being the minimum between the number of possible CPUs and one-quarter of the filesystem's total block group count. To ensure a consistent goal for each inode, we select the corresponding goal by taking the inode number modulo the total number of goals. 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 | 9636 | 19628 (+103%) | 337597 | 320885 (-4.9%) | |mb_optimize_scan=1 | 4834 | 7129 (+47.4%) | 341440 | 321275 (-5.9%) | |CPU: AMD 9654 * 2 | P96 | P1 | |Memory: 1536GB |------------------------|-------------------------| |960GB SSD (1GB/s) | base | patched | base | patched | |-------------------|-------|----------------|--------|----------------| |mb_optimize_scan=0 | 22341 | 53760 (+140%) | 219707 | 213145 (-2.9%) | |mb_optimize_scan=1 | 9177 | 12716 (+38.5%) | 215732 | 215262 (+0.2%) | Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250714130327.1830534-6-libaokun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.