The feature has been standard for a while in UFS as a means to reduce
fragmentation, therefore maintaining consistent performance with
filesystem aging. This is also very similar to what ext4 calls
"delayed allocation".
In his 2010 GSoC, Zheng Liu ported and benchmarked the missing
FANCY_REALLOC code to find more consistent performance improvements than
with the preallocation approach.
PR: 159233
Author: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com>
Sponsored by: Google Inc.
Approved by: jhb (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
- 77115: Implement support for O_DIRECT.
- 98425: Fix a performance issue introduced in 70131 that was causing
reads before writes even when writing full blocks.
- 98658: Rename the BALLOC flags from B_* to BA_* to avoid confusion with
the struct buf B_ flags.
- 100344: Merge the BA_ and IO_ flags so so that they may both be used in
the same flags word. This merger is possible by assigning the IO_ flags
to the low sixteen bits and the BA_ flags the high sixteen bits.
- 105422: Fix a file-rewrite performance case.
- 129545: Implement IO_INVAL in VOP_WRITE() by marking the buffer as
"no cache".
- Readd the DOINGASYNC() macro and use it to control asynchronous writes.
Change i-node updates to honor DOINGASYNC() instead of always being
synchronous.
- Use a PRIV_VFS_RETAINSUGID check instead of checking cr_uid against 0
directly when deciding whether or not to clear suid and sgid bits.
Submitted by: Pedro F. Giffuni giffunip at yahoo
of Code 2009:
- BSDL block and inode allocation policies for ext2fs. This involves the use
FFS1 style block and inode allocation for ext2fs. Preallocation was removed
since it was GPL'd.
- Make ext2fs MPSAFE by introducing locks to per-mount datastructures.
- Fixes for kern/122047 PR.
- Various small bugfixes.
- Move out of gnu/ directory.
Sponsored by: Google Inc.
Submitted by: Aditya Sarawgi <sarawgi.aditya AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com>
