From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Filesystem writes on RAID5 too slow
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:09:45 -0600
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Cc: Martin Boutin <martboutin@gmail.com>,
	"Kernel.org-Linux-RAID" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
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To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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Hi,

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:27:53AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:18:03AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > xfs: align initial file allocations correctly.
> > > 
> > > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > The function xfs_bmap_isaeof() is used to indicate that an
> > > allocation is occurring at or past the end of file, and as such
> > > should be aligned to the underlying storage geometry if possible.
> > > 
> > > Commit 27a3f8f ("xfs: introduce xfs_bmap_last_extent") changed the
> > > behaviour of this function for empty files - it turned off
> > > allocation alignment for this case accidentally. Hence large initial
> > > allocations from direct IO are not getting correctly aligned to the
> > > underlying geometry, and that is cause write performance to drop in
> > > alignment sensitive configurations.
> > > 
> > > Fix it by considering allocation into empty files as requiring
> > > aligned allocation again.
> > 
> > Seems like this one didn't get picked up yet?
> 
> I'm about to resend all my outstanding patches...

Sorry I didn't see that one.  If you stick the keyword 'patch' in the subject I
tend to do a bit better.

Regards,
	Ben

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