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Dave Chinner
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When we have a workload that does open/read/close in parallel with other allocation, the file becomes rapidly fragmented. This is due to close() calling xfs_file_release() and removing the speculative preallocation beyond EOF. Add a check for a writable context to xfs_file_release to skip the post-EOF block freeing (an the similarly pointless flushing on truncate down). Before: Test 1: sync write fragmentation counts /mnt/scratch/file.0: 919 /mnt/scratch/file.1: 916 /mnt/scratch/file.2: 919 /mnt/scratch/file.3: 920 /mnt/scratch/file.4: 920 /mnt/scratch/file.5: 921 /mnt/scratch/file.6: 916 /mnt/scratch/file.7: 918 After: Test 1: sync write fragmentation counts /mnt/scratch/file.0: 24 /mnt/scratch/file.1: 24 /mnt/scratch/file.2: 11 /mnt/scratch/file.3: 24 /mnt/scratch/file.4: 3 /mnt/scratch/file.5: 24 /mnt/scratch/file.6: 24 /mnt/scratch/file.7: 23 Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> [darrick: wordsmithing, fix commit message] Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> [hch: ported to the new ->release code structure] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
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