From 8365388827663bd6fb773e3623ed9023c0f82b1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:59:34 -0400 Subject: ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 18b5ec8..bf4f4b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -282,9 +282,16 @@ stripe=n Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6 systems this should be the number of data disks * RAID chunk size in file system blocks. -delalloc (*) Deferring block allocation until write-out time. -nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocation - when data is copied from user to page cache. + +delalloc (*) Defer block allocation until just before ext4 + writes out the block(s) in question. This + allows ext4 to better allocation decisions + more efficiently. +nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocated + when the data is copied from userspace to the + page cache, either via the write(2) system call + or when an mmap'ed page which was previously + unallocated is written for the first time. max_batch_time=usec Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for additional filesystem operations to be batch -- cgit v1.1 From 296c355cd6443d89fa251885a8d78778fe111dc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:32:42 -0400 Subject: ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file The /proc/fs/ext4//mb_history was maintained manually, and had a number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock introduced a CPU contention problem. By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4 tracepoints, etc. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index b5aee78..2c48f94 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1113,7 +1113,6 @@ Table 1-12: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/ .............................................................................. File Content mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks - mb_history multiblock allocation history .............................................................................. -- cgit v1.1