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From:   Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To:     Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc:     <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>,
        Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>,
        Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>,
        Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] ext4: Fix performance regression with mballoc
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:15:52 +0200
Message-Id: <20220823134508.27854-1-jack@suse.cz>
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Hello,

So I have implemented mballoc improvements to avoid spreading allocations
even with mb_optimize_scan=1. It fixes the performance regression I was able
to reproduce with reaim on my test machine:

                     mb_optimize_scan=0     mb_optimize_scan=1     patched
Hmean     disk-1       2076.12 (   0.00%)     2099.37 (   1.12%)     2032.52 (  -2.10%)
Hmean     disk-41     92481.20 (   0.00%)    83787.47 *  -9.40%*    90308.37 (  -2.35%)
Hmean     disk-81    155073.39 (   0.00%)   135527.05 * -12.60%*   154285.71 (  -0.51%)
Hmean     disk-121   185109.64 (   0.00%)   166284.93 * -10.17%*   185298.62 (   0.10%)
Hmean     disk-161   229890.53 (   0.00%)   207563.39 *  -9.71%*   232883.32 *   1.30%*
Hmean     disk-201   223333.33 (   0.00%)   203235.59 *  -9.00%*   221446.93 (  -0.84%)
Hmean     disk-241   235735.25 (   0.00%)   217705.51 *  -7.65%*   239483.27 *   1.59%*
Hmean     disk-281   266772.15 (   0.00%)   241132.72 *  -9.61%*   263108.62 (  -1.37%)
Hmean     disk-321   265435.50 (   0.00%)   245412.84 *  -7.54%*   267277.27 (   0.69%)

Stefan, can you please test whether these patches fix the problem for you as
well? Comments & review welcome.

								Honza