Re: [PATCH v4 12/12] xfs: Allow block allocator to take an alignment hint

[Dave Chinner]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 05:11:20PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> When issuing an atomic write by the CoW method, give the block allocator a
> hint to align to the extszhint.
> 
> This means that we have a better chance to issuing the atomic write via
> HW offload next time.
> 
> It does mean that the inode extszhint should be set appropriately for the
> expected atomic write size.
> 
> Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c | 7 ++++++-
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h | 6 +++++-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c     | 8 ++++++--
>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
> index 0ef19f1469ec..9bfdfb7cdcae 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
> @@ -3454,6 +3454,12 @@ xfs_bmap_compute_alignments(
>  		align = xfs_get_cowextsz_hint(ap->ip);
>  	else if (ap->datatype & XFS_ALLOC_USERDATA)
>  		align = xfs_get_extsz_hint(ap->ip);
> +
> +	if (align > 1 && ap->flags & XFS_BMAPI_EXTSZALIGN)

needs () around the & logic.

	if (align > 1 && (ap->flags & XFS_BMAPI_EXTSZALIGN))

> +		args->alignment = align;
> +	else
> +		args->alignment = 1;

When is  args->alignment not already initialised to 1?

> +
>  	if (align) {
>  		if (xfs_bmap_extsize_align(mp, &ap->got, &ap->prev, align, 0,
>  					ap->eof, 0, ap->conv, &ap->offset,
> @@ -3782,7 +3788,6 @@ xfs_bmap_btalloc(
>  		.wasdel		= ap->wasdel,
>  		.resv		= XFS_AG_RESV_NONE,
>  		.datatype	= ap->datatype,
> -		.alignment	= 1,
>  		.minalignslop	= 0,
>  	};

Oh, you removed the initialisation to 1, so now we have the
possibility of getting args->alignment = 0 anywhere in the
allocation stack?

FWIW, we've been trying to get rid of that case - args->alignment should
always be 1 if no alignment is necessary so we don't ahve to special
case alignment of 0  (meaning no alignemnt) anywhere. This seems
like a step backwards from that perspective...



>  	xfs_fileoff_t		orig_offset;
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h
> index 4b721d935994..e6baa81e20d8 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h
> @@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ struct xfs_bmalloca {
>  /* Do not update the rmap btree.  Used for reconstructing bmbt from rmapbt. */
>  #define XFS_BMAPI_NORMAP	(1u << 10)
>  
> +/* Try to align allocations to the extent size hint */
> +#define XFS_BMAPI_EXTSZALIGN	(1u << 11)

Don't we already do that?

Or is this doing something subtle and non-obvious like overriding
stripe width alignment for large atomic writes?

-Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx