From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
automated-testing@yoctoproject.org, LTP List <ltp@lists.linux.it>,
automated-testing@lists.yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [LTP] [Automated-testing] [RFC PATCH 1/1] API: Allow to use xfs filesystems < 300 MB
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 11:36:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YwNOMy9m72J/uH+Q@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEemH2ehh1+WPtwjzere-JEHeBUpg27w4nZs6_QG71ZTAkUzpA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Li, all,
> Hi Petr, All,
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 3:28 AM Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > > Hi Cyril,
> > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 1:28 PM Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > > > > I'm starting to wonder if we should start tracking minimal FS size
> > per
> > > > > > filesystem since btrfs and xfs will likely to continue to grow and
> > with
> > > > > > that we will end up disabling the whole fs related testing on
> > embedded
> > > > > > boards with a little disk space. If we tracked that per filesystem
> > we
> > > > > > would be able to skip a subset of filesystems when there is not
> > enough
> > > > > > space. The downside is obviously that we would have to add a bit
> > more
> > > > > > complexity to the test library.
> > > > > Maybe I could for start rewrite v2 (I've sent it without Cc kernel
> > devs now it's
> > > > > mainly LTP internal thing) as it just to have 300 MB for XFS and 256
> > MB for the
> > > > > rest. That would require to specify filesystem when acquiring device
> > (NULL would
> > > > > be for the default filesystem), that's would be worth if embedded
> > folks counter
> > > > > each MB. It'd be nice to hear from them.
> > > > The 256MB limit was set previously due to btrfs, I bet that we can
> > > > create smaller images for ext filesytems for example.
> > Thanks for input, Geert!
> > > Yeah, we used to have ext2 root file systems that fit on 1440 KiB
> > floppies.
> > These nice times when everything simple hadn't been solved yet ... :).
> > > IIRC, ext3 does have a minimum size of 32 MiB or so.
> > Interesting, I was able to create smaller.
> > I did some testing minimal size (verified on chdir01 test):
> > XFS: 300 MB, btrfs: 109 MB, ntfs: 2 MB, ext3: 2 MB, ext[24]: 1 MB, vfat: 1
> > MB, exfat: 1 MB.
> > I guess using XFS: 300 MB, btrfs: 109 MB and 16 MB for the rest could be
> > enough.
> I think so, tracking minimal FS size per FS is a practical idea.
> But one thing we have to be aware of is that there may be different
> minimal sizes for each FS version.
> (so we'd better choose the maximum of minimal sizes).
> 16MB for general FS should be fine, I will help to test that if someone
> works out the patch.
So should we combine both: minimal FS size and those XFS variables which would
allow to use lower size for XFS? I wonder which which size would be relevant,
it might be safer to use 64 MB:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git/tree/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c
/*
* Realistically, the log should never be smaller than 64MB. Studies by the
* kernel maintainer in early 2022 have shown a dramatic reduction in long tail
* latency of the xlog grant head waitqueue when running a heavy metadata
* update workload when the log size is at least 64MB.
*/
Because there is really not a big difference between 256MB and 300MB.
Kind regards,
Petr
> > But that would require to run all tests to see how many tests actually use
> > bigger data.
> Absolutely YES!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-22 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-17 20:40 [LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/1] API: Allow to use xfs filesystems < 300 MB Petr Vorel
2022-08-17 23:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-08-18 5:08 ` Amir Goldstein
2022-08-18 9:45 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-18 9:01 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-18 9:53 ` Cyril Hrubis
2022-08-18 11:12 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-18 11:30 ` Cyril Hrubis
2022-08-18 11:55 ` [LTP] [Automated-testing] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-08-19 19:28 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-20 2:37 ` Li Wang
2022-08-22 9:36 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2022-08-20 2:52 ` [LTP] " Li Wang
2022-08-24 10:21 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-29 1:45 ` Li Wang
2024-04-03 14:24 ` Petr Vorel
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