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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-11 13:23:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-11 13:23:48 -0700
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Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (43 commits) ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4 ext4: Avoid double dirtying of super block in ext4_put_super() Update ext4 MAINTAINERS file Hook ext4 to the vfs fiemap interface. generic block based fiemap implementation ocfs2: fiemap support vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface ext4: fix xattr deadlock jbd2: Fix buffer head leak when writing the commit block ext4: Add debugging markers that can be used by systemtap jbd2: abort instead of waiting for nonexistent transaction ext4: fix initialization of UNINIT bitmap blocks ext4: Remove old legacy block allocator ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table ext4: Improve the documentation for ext4's /proc tunables ext4: Combine proc file handling into a single set of functions ext4: move /proc setup and teardown out of mballoc.c ext4: Don't use 'struct dentry' for internal lookups ext4/jbd2: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write to the superblock ext4: use percpu data structures for lg_prealloc_list ...
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@@ -923,45 +923,44 @@ CPUs.
The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked,
waiting for I/O to complete.
+
1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
------------------------------
-Ext4 file system have one directory per partition under /proc/fs/ext4/
-# ls /proc/fs/ext4/hdc/
-group_prealloc max_to_scan mb_groups mb_history min_to_scan order2_req
-stats stream_req
-
-mb_groups:
-This file gives the details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
-
-mb_history:
-Multiblock allocation history.
-
-stats:
-This file indicate whether the multiblock allocator should start collecting
-statistics. The statistics are shown during unmount
-
-group_prealloc:
-The multiblock allocator normalize the block allocation request to
-group_prealloc filesystem blocks if we don't have strip value set.
-The stripe value can be specified at mount time or during mke2fs.
-
-max_to_scan:
-How long multiblock allocator can look for a best extent (in found extents)
-
-min_to_scan:
-How long multiblock allocator must look for a best extent
-
-order2_req:
-Multiblock allocator use 2^N search using buddies only for requests greater
-than or equal to order2_req. The request size is specfied in file system
-blocks. A value of 2 indicate only if the requests are greater than or equal
-to 4 blocks.
-
-stream_req:
-Files smaller than stream_req are served by the stream allocator, whose
-purpose is to pack requests as close each to other as possible to
-produce smooth I/O traffic. Avalue of 16 indicate that file smaller than 16
-filesystem block size will use group based preallocation.
+
+Information about mounted ext4 file systems can be found in
+/proc/fs/ext4. Each mounted filesystem will have a directory in
+/proc/fs/ext4 based on its device name (i.e., /proc/fs/ext4/hdc or
+/proc/fs/ext4/dm-0). The files in each per-device directory are shown
+in Table 1-10, below.
+
+Table 1-10: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname>
+..............................................................................
+ File Content
+ mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
+ mb_history multiblock allocation history
+ stats controls whether the multiblock allocator should start
+ collecting statistics, which are shown during the unmount
+ group_prealloc the multiblock allocator will round up allocation
+ requests to a multiple of this tuning parameter if the
+ stripe size is not set in the ext4 superblock
+ max_to_scan The maximum number of extents the multiblock allocator
+ will search to find the best extent
+ min_to_scan The minimum number of extents the multiblock allocator
+ will search to find the best extent
+ order2_req Tuning parameter which controls the minimum size for
+ requests (as a power of 2) where the buddy cache is
+ used
+ stream_req Files which have fewer blocks than this tunable
+ parameter will have their blocks allocated out of a
+ block group specific preallocation pool, so that small
+ files are packed closely together. Each large file
+ will have its blocks allocated out of its own unique
+ preallocation pool.
+inode_readahead Tuning parameter which controls the maximum number of
+ inode table blocks that ext4's inode table readahead
+ algorithm will pre-read into the buffer cache
+..............................................................................
+
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