From 11013911daea4820147ae6d7094dd7c6894e8651 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:45:35 -0400 Subject: ext4: teach the inode allocator to use a goal inode number Enhance the inode allocator to take a goal inode number as a paremeter; if it is specified, it takes precedence over Orlov or parent directory inode allocation algorithms. The extents migration function uses the goal inode number so that the extent trees allocated the migration function use the correct flex_bg. In the future, the goal inode functionality will also be used to allocate an adjacent inode for the extended attributes. Also, for testing purposes the goal inode number can be specified via /sys/fs/{dev}/inode_goal. This can be useful for testing inode allocation beyond 2^32 blocks on very large filesystems. Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ABI') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 index 4e79074de28..5fb709997d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 @@ -79,3 +79,13 @@ Description: This file is read-only and shows the number of kilobytes of data that have been written to this filesystem since it was mounted. + +What: /sys/fs/ext4//inode_goal +Date: June 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" +Description: + Tuning parameter which (if non-zero) controls the goal + inode used by the inode allocator in p0reference to + all other allocation hueristics. This is intended for + debugging use only, and should be 0 on production + systems. -- cgit v1.2.3