From eabe0444df90b0cdfa7fdc4f0b4b253f0a498ff7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Sidorov Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:22:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: speed-up releasing blocks on commit Improve mb_free_blocks speed by clearing entire range at once instead of iterating over each bit. Freeing block-by-block also makes buddy bitmap subtree flip twice making most of the work a no-op. Very few bits in buddy bitmap require change, e.g. freeing entire group is a 1 bit flip only. As a result, releasing blocks of 60G file now takes 5ms instead of 2.7s. This is especially good for non-preemptive kernels as there is no rescheduling during release. Signed-off-by: Andrey Sidorov Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- Reading git-format-patch failed