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Allocating and initializing all inodes and dentries for all files results in a very large memory usage with high capacity zoned block devices. For instance, with a 26 TB SMR HDD with over 96000 zones, mounting the disk with zonefs results in about 130 MB of memory used, the vast majority of this space being used for vfs inodes and dentries. However, since a user will rarely access all zones at the same time, dynamically creating file inodes and dentries on demand, similarly to regular file systems, can significantly reduce memory usage. This patch modifies mount processing to not create the inodes and dentries for zone files. Instead, the directory inode operation zonefs_lookup() and directory file operation zonefs_readdir() are introduced to allocate and initialize inodes on-demand using the helper functions zonefs_get_dir_inode() and zonefs_get_zgroup_inode(). Implementation of these functions is simple, relying on the static nature of zonefs directories and files. Directory inodes are linked to the volume zone groups (struct zonefs_zone_group) they represent by using the directory inode i_private field. This simplifies the implementation of the lookup and readdir operations. Unreferenced zone file inodes can be evicted from the inode cache at any time. In such case, the only inode information that cannot be recreated from the zone information that is saved in the zone group data structures attached to the volume super block is the inode uid, gid and access rights. These values may have been changed by the user. To keep these attributes for the life time of the mount, as before, the inode mode, uid and gid are saved in the inode zone information and the saved values are used to initialize regular file inodes when an inode lookup happens. The zone information mode, uid and gid are initialized in zonefs_init_zgroup() using the default values. With these changes, the static minimal memory usage of a zonefs volume is mostly reduced to the array of zone information for each zone group. For the 26 TB SMR hard-disk mentioned above, the memory usage after mount becomes about 5.4 MB, a reduction by a factor of 24 from the initial 130 MB memory use. Co-developed-by: Jorgen Hansen <Jorgen.Hansen@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.