ext4: speed up truncate/unlink by not using bforget() unless needed
Do not iterate over data blocks scanning for bh's to forget as they're never exist. This improves time taken by unlink / truncate syscall. Tested by continuously truncating file that is being written by dd. Another test is rm -rf of linux tree while tar unpacks it. With ordered data mode condition unlikely(!tbh) was always met in ext4_free_blocks. With journal data mode tbh was found only few times, so optimisation is also possible. Unlinking fallocated 60G file after doing sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && time rm --help X86 before (linux 3.6-rc4): # time rm -f test1 real 0m2.710s user 0m0.000s sys 0m1.530s X86 after: # time rm -f test1 real 0m0.644s user 0m0.003s sys 0m0.060s MIPS before (linux 2.6.37): # time rm -f test1 real 0m 4.93s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 4.61s MIPS after: # time rm -f test1 real 0m 0.16s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 0.06s Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrey Sidorov <qrxd43@motorola.com>
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