ocfs2: change default reservation window sizes
authorMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Tue, 6 Apr 2010 01:17:15 +0000 (18:17 -0700)
committerJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Thu, 6 May 2010 01:18:07 +0000 (18:18 -0700)
commitb07f8f24dfe54da0f074b78949044842e8df881f
tree8cc24b0a1e02a9b7f1241fbfecca50ac6881b938
parent6b82021b9e91cd689fdffadbcdb9a42597bbe764
ocfs2: change default reservation window sizes

The default reservation size of 4 (32-bit windows) is a bit too ambitious.
Scale it back to 16 bits (resv_level=2). I have been testing various sizes
on a 4-node cluster which runs a mixed workload that is heavily threaded.
With a 256MB local alloc, I get *roughly* the following levels of average file
fragmentation:

resv_level=0 70%
resv_level=1 21%
resv_level=2 23%
resv_level=3 24%
resv_level=4 60%
resv_level=5 did not test
resv_level=6 60%

resv_level=2 seemed like a good compromise between not letting windows be
too small, but not so big that heavier workloads will immediately suffer
without tuning.

This patch also change the behavior of directory reservations - they now
track file reservations.  The previous compromise of giving directory
windows only 8 bits wound up fragmenting more at some window sizes because
file allocations had smaller unused windows to poach from.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
fs/ocfs2/reservations.c
fs/ocfs2/reservations.h