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Commit 67a5da56 authored by Zheng Liu's avatar Zheng Liu Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: make the zero-out chunk size tunable



Currently in ext4 the length of zero-out chunk is set to 7 file system
blocks.  But if an inode has uninitailized extents from using
fallocate to preallocate space, and the workload issues many random
writes, this can cause a fragmented extent tree that will
unnecessarily grow the extent tree.

So create a new sysfs tunable, extent_max_zeroout_kb, which controls
the maximum size where blocks will be zeroed out instead of creating a
new uninitialized extent.  The default of this has been sent to 32kb.

CC: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
CC: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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