In ext4, when FITRIM is called every time, we iterate all the
groups and do trim one by one. It is a bit time wasting if the
group has been trimmed and there is no change since the last
trim.
So this patch adds a new flag in ext4_group_info->bb_state to
indicate that the group has been trimmed, and it will be cleared
if some blocks is freed(in release_blocks_on_commit). Another
trim_minlen is added in ext4_sb_info to record the last minlen
we use to trim the volume, so that if the caller provide a small
one, we will go on the trim regardless of the bb_state.
A simple test with my intel x25m ssd:
df -h shows:
/dev/sdb1 40G 21G 17G 56% /mnt/ext4
Block size: 4096
run the FITRIM with the following parameter:
range.start = 0;
range.len = UINT64_MAX;
range.minlen = 1048576;
without the patch:
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real 0m5.505s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m1.224s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real 0m5.359s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m1.178s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real 0m5.228s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m1.151s
with the patch:
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real 0m5.625s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m1.269s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real 0m0.002s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.001s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real 0m0.002s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.001s
A big improvement for the 2nd and 3rd run.
Even after I delete some big image files, it is still much
faster than iterating the whole disk.
[root@boyu-tm test]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real 0m1.217s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.196s
Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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