ext4: add prefetch_block_bitmaps mount option

For file systems where we can afford to keep the buddy bitmaps cached,
we can speed up initial writes to large file systems by starting to
load the block allocation bitmaps as soon as the file system is
mounted.  This won't work well for _super_ large file systems, or
memory constrained systems, so we only enable this when it is
requested via a mount option.

Addresses-Google-Bug: 159488342
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 8c00f0a09f4d..1cbe3f248faf 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1521,6 +1521,7 @@ enum {
 	Opt_dioread_nolock, Opt_dioread_lock,
 	Opt_discard, Opt_nodiscard, Opt_init_itable, Opt_noinit_itable,
 	Opt_max_dir_size_kb, Opt_nojournal_checksum, Opt_nombcache,
+	Opt_prefetch_block_bitmaps,
 };
 
 static const match_table_t tokens = {
@@ -1612,6 +1613,7 @@ static const match_table_t tokens = {
 	{Opt_test_dummy_encryption, "test_dummy_encryption"},
 	{Opt_nombcache, "nombcache"},
 	{Opt_nombcache, "no_mbcache"},	/* for backward compatibility */
+	{Opt_prefetch_block_bitmaps, "prefetch_block_bitmaps"},
 	{Opt_removed, "check=none"},	/* mount option from ext2/3 */
 	{Opt_removed, "nocheck"},	/* mount option from ext2/3 */
 	{Opt_removed, "reservation"},	/* mount option from ext2/3 */
@@ -1829,6 +1831,8 @@ static const struct mount_opts {
 	{Opt_max_dir_size_kb, 0, MOPT_GTE0},
 	{Opt_test_dummy_encryption, 0, MOPT_STRING},
 	{Opt_nombcache, EXT4_MOUNT_NO_MBCACHE, MOPT_SET},
+	{Opt_prefetch_block_bitmaps, EXT4_MOUNT_PREFETCH_BLOCK_BITMAPS,
+	 MOPT_SET},
 	{Opt_err, 0, 0}
 };
 
@@ -3201,15 +3205,34 @@ static void print_daily_error_info(struct timer_list *t)
 static int ext4_run_li_request(struct ext4_li_request *elr)
 {
 	struct ext4_group_desc *gdp = NULL;
-	ext4_group_t group, ngroups;
-	struct super_block *sb;
+	struct super_block *sb = elr->lr_super;
+	ext4_group_t ngroups = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_groups_count;
+	ext4_group_t group = elr->lr_next_group;
 	unsigned long timeout = 0;
+	unsigned int prefetch_ios = 0;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	sb = elr->lr_super;
-	ngroups = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_groups_count;
+	if (elr->lr_mode == EXT4_LI_MODE_PREFETCH_BBITMAP) {
+		elr->lr_next_group = ext4_mb_prefetch(sb, group,
+				EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mb_prefetch, &prefetch_ios);
+		if (prefetch_ios)
+			ext4_mb_prefetch_fini(sb, elr->lr_next_group,
+					      prefetch_ios);
+		trace_ext4_prefetch_bitmaps(sb, group, elr->lr_next_group,
+					    prefetch_ios);
+		if (group >= elr->lr_next_group) {
+			ret = 1;
+			if (elr->lr_first_not_zeroed != ngroups &&
+			    !sb_rdonly(sb) && test_opt(sb, INIT_INODE_TABLE)) {
+				elr->lr_next_group = elr->lr_first_not_zeroed;
+				elr->lr_mode = EXT4_LI_MODE_ITABLE;
+				ret = 0;
+			}
+		}
+		return ret;
+	}
 
-	for (group = elr->lr_next_group; group < ngroups; group++) {
+	for (; group < ngroups; group++) {
 		gdp = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, group, NULL);
 		if (!gdp) {
 			ret = 1;
@@ -3227,9 +3250,10 @@ static int ext4_run_li_request(struct ext4_li_request *elr)
 		timeout = jiffies;
 		ret = ext4_init_inode_table(sb, group,
 					    elr->lr_timeout ? 0 : 1);
+		trace_ext4_lazy_itable_init(sb, group);
 		if (elr->lr_timeout == 0) {
 			timeout = (jiffies - timeout) *
-				  elr->lr_sbi->s_li_wait_mult;
+				EXT4_SB(elr->lr_super)->s_li_wait_mult;
 			elr->lr_timeout = timeout;
 		}
 		elr->lr_next_sched = jiffies + elr->lr_timeout;
@@ -3244,15 +3268,11 @@ static int ext4_run_li_request(struct ext4_li_request *elr)
  */
 static void ext4_remove_li_request(struct ext4_li_request *elr)
 {
-	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi;
-
 	if (!elr)
 		return;
 
-	sbi = elr->lr_sbi;
-
 	list_del(&elr->lr_request);
-	sbi->s_li_request = NULL;
+	EXT4_SB(elr->lr_super)->s_li_request = NULL;
 	kfree(elr);
 }
 
@@ -3461,7 +3481,6 @@ static int ext4_li_info_new(void)
 static struct ext4_li_request *ext4_li_request_new(struct super_block *sb,
 					    ext4_group_t start)
 {
-	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
 	struct ext4_li_request *elr;
 
 	elr = kzalloc(sizeof(*elr), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -3469,8 +3488,13 @@ static struct ext4_li_request *ext4_li_request_new(struct super_block *sb,
 		return NULL;
 
 	elr->lr_super = sb;
-	elr->lr_sbi = sbi;
-	elr->lr_next_group = start;
+	elr->lr_first_not_zeroed = start;
+	if (test_opt(sb, PREFETCH_BLOCK_BITMAPS))
+		elr->lr_mode = EXT4_LI_MODE_PREFETCH_BBITMAP;
+	else {
+		elr->lr_mode = EXT4_LI_MODE_ITABLE;
+		elr->lr_next_group = start;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Randomize first schedule time of the request to
@@ -3500,8 +3524,9 @@ int ext4_register_li_request(struct super_block *sb,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (first_not_zeroed == ngroups || sb_rdonly(sb) ||
-	    !test_opt(sb, INIT_INODE_TABLE))
+	if (!test_opt(sb, PREFETCH_BLOCK_BITMAPS) &&
+	    (first_not_zeroed == ngroups || sb_rdonly(sb) ||
+	     !test_opt(sb, INIT_INODE_TABLE)))
 		goto out;
 
 	elr = ext4_li_request_new(sb, first_not_zeroed);