Certain workloads fragment files on XFS very badly, such as a software
package that creates a number of threads, each of which repeatedly run
the sequence: open a file, perform a synchronous write, and close the
file, which defeats the speculative preallocation mechanism. We work
around this problem by only deleting posteof blocks the /first/ time a
file is closed to preserve the behavior that unpacking a tarball lays
out files one after the other with no gaps.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
[hch: rebased, updated comment, renamed the flag] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>