f2fs: preallocate fallocated blocks for direct IO
Normally, due to DIO_SKIP_HOLES flag is set by default, blockdev_direct_IO in f2fs_direct_IO tries to skip DIO in holes when writing inside i_size, this makes us falling back to buffered IO which shows lower performance. So in commit 59b802e5 ("f2fs: allocate data blocks in advance for f2fs_direct_IO"), we improve perfromance by allocating data blocks in advance if we meet holes no matter in i_size or not, since with it we can avoid falling back to buffered IO. But we forget to consider for unwritten fallocated block in this commit. This patch tries to fix it for fallocate case, this helps to improve performance. Test result: Storage info: sandisk ultra 64G micro sd card. touch /mnt/f2fs/file truncate -s 67108864 /mnt/f2fs/file fallocate -o 0 -l 67108864 /mnt/f2fs/file time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/f2fs/file bs=1M count=64 conv=notrunc oflag=direct Time before applying the patch: 67108864 bytes (67 MB) copied, 36.16 s, 1.9 MB/s real 0m36.162s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.180s Time after applying the patch: 67108864 bytes (67 MB) copied, 27.7776 s, 2.4 MB/s real 0m27.780s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.036s Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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