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Since the size class is an artifact of an arbitrary anti fragmentation strategy, it doesn't really make sense to persist it. Furthermore, most of the size class logic assumes fresh block groups. That is of course not a reasonable assumption -- we will be upgrading kernels with existing filesystems whose block groups are not classified. To work around those issues, implement logic to compute the size class of the block groups as we cache them in. To perfectly assess the state of a block group, we would have to read the entire extent tree (since the free space cache mashes together contiguous extent items) which would be prohibitively expensive for larger file systems with more extents. We can do it relatively cheaply by implementing a simple heuristic of sampling a handful of extents and picking the smallest one we see. In the happy case where the block group was classified, we will only see extents of the correct size. In the unhappy case, we will hopefully find one of the smaller extents, but there is no perfect answer anyway. Autorelocation will eventually churn up the block group if there is significant freeing anyway. There was no regression in mount performance at end state of the fsperf test suite, and the delay until the block group is marked cached is minimized by the constant number of extent samples. Signed-off-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io> 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.