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The MRU cache for open zones is unfortunately still not ideal, as it can
time out pretty easily when doing heavy I/O to hard disks using up most
or all open zones. One option would be to just increase the timeout,
but while looking into that I realized we're just better off caching it
indefinitely as there is no real downside to that once we don't hold a
reference to the cache open zone.
So switch the open zone to RCU freeing, and then stash the last used
open zone into inode->i_private. This helps to significantly reduce
fragmentation by keeping I/O localized to zones for workloads that
write using many open files to HDD.
Fixes: 4e4d520755 ("xfs: add the zoned space allocator")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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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.