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[5/9] xfs: don't free post-EOF blocks on read close

Message ID 20240808152826.3028421-6-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Series [1/9] xfs: remove the i_mode check in xfs_release | expand

Commit Message

Christoph Hellwig Aug. 8, 2024, 3:27 p.m. UTC 
From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

When we have a workload that does open/read/close in parallel with other
allocation, the file becomes rapidly fragmented. This is due to close()
calling xfs_file_release() and removing the speculative preallocation
beyond EOF.

Add a check for a writable context to xfs_file_release to skip the
post-EOF block freeing (an the similarly pointless flushing on truncate
down).

Before:

Test 1: sync write fragmentation counts

/mnt/scratch/file.0: 919
/mnt/scratch/file.1: 916
/mnt/scratch/file.2: 919
/mnt/scratch/file.3: 920
/mnt/scratch/file.4: 920
/mnt/scratch/file.5: 921
/mnt/scratch/file.6: 916
/mnt/scratch/file.7: 918

After:

Test 1: sync write fragmentation counts

/mnt/scratch/file.0: 24
/mnt/scratch/file.1: 24
/mnt/scratch/file.2: 11
/mnt/scratch/file.3: 24
/mnt/scratch/file.4: 3
/mnt/scratch/file.5: 24
/mnt/scratch/file.6: 24
/mnt/scratch/file.7: 23

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
[darrick: wordsmithing, fix commit message]
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
[hch: ported to the new ->release code structure]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index dae8dd1223550d..60424e64230743 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -1217,12 +1217,18 @@  xfs_file_release(
 	 * There is no point in freeing blocks here for open but unlinked files
 	 * as they will be taken care of by the inactivation path soon.
 	 *
+	 * When releasing a read-only context, don't flush data or trim post-EOF
+	 * blocks.  This avoids open/read/close workloads from removing EOF
+	 * blocks that other writers depend upon to reduce fragmentation.
+	 *
 	 * If we can't get the iolock just skip truncating the blocks past EOF
 	 * because we could deadlock with the mmap_lock otherwise. We'll get
 	 * another chance to drop them once the last reference to the inode is
 	 * dropped, so we'll never leak blocks permanently.
 	 */
-	if (inode->i_nlink && xfs_ilock_nowait(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL)) {
+	if (inode->i_nlink &&
+	    (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) &&
+	    xfs_ilock_nowait(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL)) {
 		if (xfs_can_free_eofblocks(ip) &&
 		    !xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_IDIRTY_RELEASE)) {
 			/*