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Brian Foster f56db9ce3c xfs: skip background cowblock trims on inodes open for write 
commit 90a71daaf7 upstream.

The background blockgc scanner runs on a 5m interval by default and
trims preallocation (post-eof and cow fork) from inodes that are
otherwise idle. Idle effectively means that iolock can be acquired
without blocking and that the inode has no dirty pagecache or I/O in
flight.

This simple mechanism and heuristic has worked fairly well for
post-eof speculative preallocations. Support for reflink and COW
fork preallocations came sometime later and plugged into the same
mechanism, with similar heuristics. Some recent testing has shown
that COW fork preallocation may be notably more sensitive to blockgc
processing than post-eof preallocation, however.

For example, consider an 8GB reflinked file with a COW extent size
hint of 1MB. A worst case fully randomized overwrite of this file
results in ~8k extents of an average size of ~1MB. If the same
workload is interrupted a couple times for blockgc processing
(assuming the file goes idle), the resulting extent count explodes
to over 100k extents with an average size <100kB. This is
significantly worse than ideal and essentially defeats the COW
extent size hint mechanism.

While this particular test is instrumented, it reflects a fairly
reasonable pattern in practice where random I/Os might spread out
over a large period of time with varying periods of (in)activity.
For example, consider a cloned disk image file for a VM or container
with long uptime and variable and bursty usage. A background blockgc
scan that races and processes the image file when it happens to be
clean and idle can have a significant effect on the future
fragmentation level of the file, even when still in use.

To help combat this, update the heuristic to skip cowblocks inodes
that are currently opened for write access during non-sync blockgc
scans. This allows COW fork preallocations to persist for as long as
possible unless otherwise needed for functional purposes (i.e. a
sync scan), the file is idle and closed, or the inode is being
evicted from cache. While here, update the comments to help
distinguish performance oriented heuristics from the logic that
exists to maintain functional correctness.

Suggested-by: Darrick Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Hoang <catherine.hoang@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-02-27 04:10:42 -08:00
arch arm64: mte: Do not allow PROT_MTE on MAP_HUGETLB user mappings 2025-02-27 04:10:42 -08:00
block partitions: mac: fix handling of bogus partition table 2025-02-21 13:57:18 +01:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto crypto: ecc - Prevent ecc_digits_from_bytes from reading too many bytes 2025-01-09 13:31:52 +01:00
Documentation arm64: Filter out SVE hwcaps when FEAT_SVE isn't implemented 2025-02-21 13:57:26 +01:00
drivers Revert "vfio/platform: check the bounds of read/write syscalls" 2025-02-21 13:57:27 +01:00
fs xfs: skip background cowblock trims on inodes open for write 2025-02-27 04:10:42 -08:00
include x86/i8253: Disable PIT timer 0 when not in use 2025-02-21 13:57:27 +01:00
init Compiler Attributes: disable __counted_by for clang < 19.1.3 2024-12-09 10:32:46 +01:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: reallocate buf lists on upgrade 2025-02-21 13:57:27 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns 2024-12-09 10:32:54 +01:00
kernel clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context 2025-02-21 13:57:20 +01:00
lib maple_tree: simplify split calculation 2025-02-17 09:40:39 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: gup: fix infinite loop within __get_longterm_locked 2025-02-21 13:57:26 +01:00
net vsock: Orphan socket after transport release 2025-02-21 13:57:27 +01:00
rust rust: init: use explicit ABI to clean warning in future compilers 2025-02-17 09:40:27 +01:00
samples samples/landlock: Fix possible NULL dereference in parse_path() 2025-02-08 09:51:57 +01:00
scripts scripts/gdb: fix aarch64 userspace detection in get_current_task 2025-02-17 09:40:39 +01:00
security tomoyo: don't emit warning in tomoyo_write_control() 2025-02-17 09:40:07 +01:00
sound ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Add DMI quirk for Vexia Edu Atla 10 tablet 5V 2025-02-21 13:57:12 +01:00
tools selftests: rtnetlink: update netdevsim ipsec output format 2025-02-21 13:57:25 +01:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Use dedicated mutex to protect kvm_usage_count to avoid deadlock 2024-10-04 16:29:47 +02:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Remove *.orig pattern from .gitignore 2024-10-04 16:29:44 +02:00
.mailmap 20 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.5 issues 2023-10-24 09:52:16 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS membarrier: riscv: Add full memory barrier in switch_mm() 2024-09-12 11:11:45 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.6.79 2025-02-21 13:57:28 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text 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.