xfs: limit speculative prealloc size on sparse files
Speculative preallocation based on the current file size works well for contiguous files, but is sub-optimal for sparse files where the EOF preallocation can fill holes and result in large amounts of zeros being written when it is not necessary. The algorithm is modified to prevent EOF speculative preallocation from triggering larger allocations on IO patterns of truncate--to-zero-seek-write-seek-write-.... which results in non-sparse files for large files. This, unfortunately, is the way cp now behaves when copying sparse files and so needs to be fixed. What this code does is that it looks at the existing extent adjacent to the current EOF and if it determines that it is a hole we disable speculative preallocation altogether. To avoid the next write from doing a large prealloc, it takes the size of subsequent preallocations from the current size of the existing EOF extent. IOWs, if you leave a hole in the file, it resets preallocation behaviour to the same as if it was a zero size file. Example new behaviour: $ xfs_io -f -c "pwrite 0 31m" \ -c "pwrite 33m 1m" \ -c "pwrite 128m 1m" \ -c "fiemap -v" /mnt/scratch/blah wrote 32505856/32505856 bytes at offset 0 31 MiB, 7936 ops; 0.0000 sec (1.608 GiB/sec and 421432.7439 ops/sec) wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 34603008 1 MiB, 256 ops; 0.0000 sec (1.462 GiB/sec and 383233.5329 ops/sec) wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 134217728 1 MiB, 256 ops; 0.0000 sec (1.719 GiB/sec and 450704.2254 ops/sec) /mnt/scratch/blah: EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE TOTAL FLAGS 0: [0..65535]: 96..65631 65536 0x0 1: [65536..67583]: hole 2048 2: [67584..69631]: 67680..69727 2048 0x0 3: [69632..262143]: hole 192512 4: [262144..264191]: 262240..264287 2048 0x1 Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
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