linux/fs/ext4
Theodore Ts'o 0ae45f63d4 vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option
Add a new mount option which enables a new "lazytime" mode.  This mode
causes atime, mtime, and ctime updates to only be made to the
in-memory version of the inode.  The on-disk times will only get
updated when (a) if the inode needs to be updated for some non-time
related change, (b) if userspace calls fsync(), syncfs() or sync(), or
(c) just before an undeleted inode is evicted from memory.

This is OK according to POSIX because there are no guarantees after a
crash unless userspace explicitly requests via a fsync(2) call.

For workloads which feature a large number of random write to a
preallocated file, the lazytime mount option significantly reduces
writes to the inode table.  The repeated 4k writes to a single block
will result in undesirable stress on flash devices and SMR disk
drives.  Even on conventional HDD's, the repeated writes to the inode
table block will trigger Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) remediation
latencies, which very negatively impact long tail latencies --- which
is a very big deal for web serving tiers (for example).

Google-Bug-Id: 18297052

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-02-05 02:45:00 -05:00
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acl.c ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure 2014-01-25 23:58:19 -05:00
acl.h ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure 2014-01-25 23:58:19 -05:00
balloc.c ext4: move error report out of atomic context in ext4_init_block_bitmap() 2014-10-13 03:42:12 -04:00
bitmap.c ext4: Replace open coded mdata csum feature to helper function 2014-10-13 03:36:16 -04:00
block_validity.c fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding 2014-01-23 16:37:03 -08:00
dir.c ext4: convert ext4_bread() to use the ERR_PTR convention 2014-08-29 20:52:15 -04:00
ext4_extents.h ext4: teach ext4_ext_find_extent() to realloc path if necessary 2014-09-01 14:40:09 -04:00
ext4_jbd2.c ext4: fix over-defensive complaint after journal abort 2014-10-01 22:23:15 -04:00
ext4_jbd2.h ext4: don't use MAXQUOTAS value 2014-09-11 11:15:15 -04:00
ext4.h Lots of bugs fixes, including Zheng and Jan's extent status shrinker 2014-12-12 09:28:03 -08:00
extents_status.c ext4: introduce aging to extent status tree 2014-11-25 11:55:24 -05:00
extents_status.h ext4: introduce aging to extent status tree 2014-11-25 11:55:24 -05:00
extents.c Revert "ext4: fix suboptimal seek_{data,hole} extents traversial" 2015-01-02 15:16:00 -05:00
file.c Revert "ext4: fix suboptimal seek_{data,hole} extents traversial" 2015-01-02 15:16:00 -05:00
fsync.c ext4: Fix fsync error handling after filesystem abort 2013-06-12 22:38:04 -04:00
hash.c ext4: reduce one "if" comparison in ext4_dirhash() 2013-02-01 22:33:21 -05:00
ialloc.c ext4: fix oops when loading block bitmap failed 2014-10-30 10:53:16 -04:00
indirect.c ext4: prepare to drop EXT4_STATE_DELALLOC_RESERVED 2014-09-04 18:07:25 -04:00
inline.c ext4: ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent drop locked page after error 2014-12-05 21:37:15 -05:00
inode.c vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option 2015-02-05 02:45:00 -05:00
ioctl.c ext4: move handling of list of shrinkable inodes into extent status code 2014-11-25 11:49:25 -05:00
Kconfig ext4: fix Kconfig documentation for CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG 2013-04-21 20:32:03 -04:00
Makefile ext4: Remove CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR 2012-12-10 16:30:43 -05:00
mballoc.c ext4: Remove an unnecessary check for NULL before iput() 2014-11-25 20:01:37 -05:00
mballoc.h ext4: remove unused ac_ex_scanned 2014-02-20 13:32:10 -05:00
migrate.c ext4: update comments regarding ext4_delete_inode() 2014-11-25 16:17:29 -05:00
mmp.c ext4: Replace open coded mdata csum feature to helper function 2014-10-13 03:36:16 -04:00
move_extent.c move_extent_per_page(): get rid of unused w_flags 2014-12-17 06:43:56 -05:00
namei.c ext4: remove unneeded code in ext4_unlink 2014-11-25 16:34:38 -05:00
page-io.c Clean ups and miscellaneous bug fixes, in particular for the new 2014-06-08 13:03:35 -07:00
resize.c ext4: prevent online resize with backup superblock 2014-12-26 23:58:21 -05:00
super.c Revert a potential seek_data/hole regression which shows up when using 2015-01-06 14:05:40 -08:00
symlink.c ext4: Remove CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR 2012-12-10 16:30:43 -05:00
truncate.h
xattr_security.c
xattr_trusted.c
xattr_user.c
xattr.c ext4: Replace open coded mdata csum feature to helper function 2014-10-13 03:36:16 -04:00
xattr.h ext4: each filesystem creates and uses its own mb_cache 2014-03-18 19:24:49 -04:00