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H A D | initramfs.c | 1274aea1 Mon May 09 20:29:19 CDT 2022 David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de> initramfs: add INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME Kconfig option
initramfs cpio mtime preservation, as implemented in commit 889d51a10712 ("initramfs: add option to preserve mtime from initramfs cpio images"), uses a linked list to defer directory mtime processing until after all other items in the cpio archive have been processed. This is done to ensure that parent directory mtimes aren't overwritten via subsequent child creation.
The lkml link below indicates that the mtime retention use case was for embedded devices with applications running exclusively out of initramfs, where the 32-bit mtime value provided a rough file version identifier. Linux distributions which discard an extracted initramfs immediately after the root filesystem has been mounted may want to avoid the unnecessary overhead.
This change adds a new INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME Kconfig option, which can be used to disable on-by-default mtime retention and in turn speed up initramfs extraction, particularly for cpio archives with large directory counts.
Benchmarks with a one million directory cpio archive extracted 20 times demonstrated: mean extraction time (s) std dev INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME=y 3.808 0.006 INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME unset 3.056 0.004
The above extraction times were measured using ftrace (initcall_finish - initcall_start) values for populate_rootfs() with initramfs_async disabled.
[ddiss@suse.de: rebase atop dir_entry.name flexible array member and drop separate initramfs_mtime.h header] Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/3/424 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-4-ddiss@suse.de Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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H A D | Kconfig | 1274aea1 Mon May 09 20:29:19 CDT 2022 David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de> initramfs: add INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME Kconfig option
initramfs cpio mtime preservation, as implemented in commit 889d51a10712 ("initramfs: add option to preserve mtime from initramfs cpio images"), uses a linked list to defer directory mtime processing until after all other items in the cpio archive have been processed. This is done to ensure that parent directory mtimes aren't overwritten via subsequent child creation.
The lkml link below indicates that the mtime retention use case was for embedded devices with applications running exclusively out of initramfs, where the 32-bit mtime value provided a rough file version identifier. Linux distributions which discard an extracted initramfs immediately after the root filesystem has been mounted may want to avoid the unnecessary overhead.
This change adds a new INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME Kconfig option, which can be used to disable on-by-default mtime retention and in turn speed up initramfs extraction, particularly for cpio archives with large directory counts.
Benchmarks with a one million directory cpio archive extracted 20 times demonstrated: mean extraction time (s) std dev INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME=y 3.808 0.006 INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME unset 3.056 0.004
The above extraction times were measured using ftrace (initcall_finish - initcall_start) values for populate_rootfs() with initramfs_async disabled.
[ddiss@suse.de: rebase atop dir_entry.name flexible array member and drop separate initramfs_mtime.h header] Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/3/424 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-4-ddiss@suse.de Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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