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After observing xfs_scrub taking forever to rebuild parent pointers on a pptrs enabled filesystem, I decided to profile what the system was doing. It turns out that when there are a lot of threads trying to scan the filesystem, most of our time is spent contending on AGI buffer locks. Given that we're walking the inobt records anyway, we can often tell ahead of time when there's a bunch of (up to 64) consecutive inodes that we could grab all at once. Do this to amortize the cost of taking the AGI lock across as many inodes as we possibly can. On the author's system this seems to improve parallel throughput from barely one and a half cores to slightly sublinear scaling. The obvious antipattern here of course is where the freemask has every other bit set (e.g. all 0xA's) Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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