The extent map code was ripped out earlier because of an inability to deal
with holes. This patch adds back a simpler caching scheme requiring far less
code.
Our old extent map caching was designed back when meta data block caching in
Ocfs2 didn't work very well, resulting in many disk reads. These days our
metadata caching is much better, resulting in no un-necessary disk reads. As
a result, extent caching doesn't have to be as fancy, nor does it have to
cache as many extents. Keeping the last 3 extents seen should be sufficient
to give us a small performance boost on some streaming workloads.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Initially, we had wired things to return a size '1' of holes. Cook up a
small amount of code to find the next extent and calculate the number of
clusters between the virtual offset and the next allocated extent.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Return an optional extent flags field from our lookup functions and wire up
callers to treat unwritten regions as holes for the purpose of returning
zeros to the user.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Unfortunately, ocfs2 can no longer make use of generic_file_aio_write_nlock()
because allocating writes will require zeroing of pages adjacent to the I/O
for cluster sizes greater than page size.
Implement a custom file write here, which can order page locks for zeroing.
This also has the advantage that cluster locks can easily be ordered outside
of the page locks.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
The code in extent_map.c is not prepared to deal with a subtree being
rotated between lookups. This can happen when filling holes in sparse files.
Instead of a lengthy patch to update the code (which would likely lose the
benefit of caching subtree roots), we remove most of the algorithms and
implement a simple path based lookup. A less ambitious extent caching scheme
will be added in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh