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In an ext4 filesystem, the inode corresponding to a file has a 60-byte area which contains an extent header structure and up to 4 extent structures (5 x 12 bytes). For files that need more than 4 extents to be represented (either files larger than 4 x 128MB = 512MB or smaller files but very fragmented), ext4 creates extent index structures. Each extent index points to a 4KB physical block where one extent header and additional 340 extents could be stored. The current u-boot ext4 code is very inefficient when it tries to load a file which has extent indexes. For each logical file block the code will read over and over again the same blocks of 4096 bytes from the disk. Since the extent tree in a file is always the same, we can cache the extent structures in memory before actually starting to read the file. This patch creates a simple linked list of structures holding information about all the extents used to represent a file. The list is sorted by the logical block number (ee_block) so that we can easily find the proper extent information for any file block. Without this patch, a 69MB file which had just one extent index pointing to a block with another 6 extents was read in approximately 3 minutes. With this patch applied the same file can be read in almost 20 seconds. Signed-off-by: Ionut Nicu <ioan.nicu.ext@nsn.com> |
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