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    ocfs2: increase the default size of local alloc windows · 6b82021b
    Mark Fasheh authored
    
    
    I have observed that the current size of 8M gives us pretty poor
    fragmentation on multi-threaded workloads which do lots of writes.
    
    Generally, I can increase the size of local alloc windows and observe a
    marked decrease in fragmentation, even up and beyond window sizes of 512
    megabytes. This makes sense for a couple reasons - larger local alloc means
    more room for reservation windows. On multi-node workloads the larger local
    alloc helps as well because we don't have to do window slides as often.
    
    Also, I removed the OCFS2_DEFAULT_LOCAL_ALLOC_SIZE constant as it is no
    longer used and the comment above it was out of date.
    
    To test fragmentation, I used a workload which launched 4 threads that did
    4k writes into a series of about 140 alternating files.
    
    With resv_level=2, and a 4k/4k file system I observed the following average
    fragmentation for various localalloc= parameters:
    
    localalloc=	avg. fragmentation
    	8		48
    	32		16
    	64		10
    	120		7
    
    On larger cluster sizes, the difference is more dramatic.
    
    The new default size top out at 256M, which we'll only get for cluster
    sizes of 32K and above.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
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