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At btrfs_truncate() where we truncate the inode either to the same size or to a smaller size, we always set the full sync flag on the inode. This is needed in case the truncation drops or trims any file extent items that start beyond or cross the new inode size, so that the next fsync drops all inode items from the log and scans again the fs/subvolume tree to find all items that must be logged. However if the truncation does not drop or trims any file extent items, we do not need to set the full sync flag and force the next fsync to use the slow code path. So do not set the full sync flag in such cases. One use case where it is frequent to do truncations that do not change the inode size and do not drop any extents (no prealloc extents beyond i_size) is when running Microsoft's SQL Server inside a Docker container. One example workload is the one Philipp Fent reported recently, in the thread with a link below. In this workload a large number of fsyncs are preceded by such truncate operations. After this change I constantly get the runtime for that workload from Philipp to be reduced by about -12%, for example from 184 seconds down to 162 seconds. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/93c4600e-5263-5cba-adf0-6f47526e7561@in.tum.de/ Tested-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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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.