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ext4: make ext4_block_in_group() much more efficient
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Currently in when getting the block group number for a particular
block in ext4_block_in_group() we're using
ext4_get_group_no_and_offset() which uses do_div() to get the block
group and the remainer which is offset within the group.

We don't need all of that in ext4_block_in_group() as we only need to
figure out the group number.

This commit changes ext4_block_in_group() to calculate group number
directly. This shows as a big improvement with regards to cpu
utilization. Measuring fallocate -l 15T on fresh file system with perf
showed that 23% of cpu time was spend in the
ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(). With this change it completely
disappears from the list only bumping the occurrence of
ext4_init_block_bitmap() which is the biggest user of
ext4_block_in_group() by 4%. As the result of this change on my system
the fallocate call was approx. 10% faster.

However since there is '-g' option in mkfs which allow us setting
different groups size (mostly for developers) I've introduced new per
file system flag whether we have a standard block group size or
not. The flag is used to determine whether we can use the bit shift
optimization or not.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Lukas Czerner authored and Theodore Ts'o committed Apr 4, 2013
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22 changes: 16 additions & 6 deletions fs/ext4/balloc.c
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Expand Up @@ -49,14 +49,24 @@ void ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t blocknr,

}

static int ext4_block_in_group(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t block,
ext4_group_t block_group)
/*
* Check whether the 'block' lives within the 'block_group'. Returns 1 if so
* and 0 otherwise.
*/
static inline int ext4_block_in_group(struct super_block *sb,
ext4_fsblk_t block,
ext4_group_t block_group)
{
ext4_group_t actual_group;
ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(sb, block, &actual_group, NULL);
if (actual_group == block_group)
return 1;
return 0;

if (test_opt2(sb, STD_GROUP_SIZE))
actual_group =
(le32_to_cpu(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es->s_first_data_block) +
block) >>
(EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS(sb) + EXT4_CLUSTER_BITS(sb) + 3);
else
ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(sb, block, &actual_group, NULL);
return (actual_group == block_group) ? 1 : 0;
}

/* Return the number of clusters used for file system metadata; this
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10 changes: 9 additions & 1 deletion fs/ext4/ext4.h
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Expand Up @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
#define EXT2_FLAGS_TEST_FILESYS 0x0004 /* to test development code */

/*
* Mount flags
* Mount flags set via mount options or defaults
*/
#define EXT4_MOUNT_GRPID 0x00004 /* Create files with directory's group */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_DEBUG 0x00008 /* Some debugging messages */
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#define EXT4_MOUNT_DISCARD 0x40000000 /* Issue DISCARD requests */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_INIT_INODE_TABLE 0x80000000 /* Initialize uninitialized itables */

/*
* Mount flags set either automatically (could not be set by mount option)
* based on per file system feature or property or in special cases such as
* distinguishing between explicit mount option definition and default.
*/
#define EXT4_MOUNT2_EXPLICIT_DELALLOC 0x00000001 /* User explicitly
specified delalloc */
#define EXT4_MOUNT2_STD_GROUP_SIZE 0x00000002 /* We have standard group
size of blocksize * 8
blocks */

#define clear_opt(sb, opt) EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_opt &= \
~EXT4_MOUNT_##opt
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions fs/ext4/super.c
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Expand Up @@ -3529,6 +3529,10 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
sbi->s_addr_per_block_bits = ilog2(EXT4_ADDR_PER_BLOCK(sb));
sbi->s_desc_per_block_bits = ilog2(EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb));

/* Do we have standard group size of blocksize * 8 blocks ? */
if (sbi->s_blocks_per_group == blocksize << 3)
set_opt2(sb, STD_GROUP_SIZE);

for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
sbi->s_hash_seed[i] = le32_to_cpu(es->s_hash_seed[i]);
sbi->s_def_hash_version = es->s_def_hash_version;
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