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ext4: Don't normalize an falloc request if it can fit in 1 extent. 

If an fallocate request fits in EXT_UNINIT_MAX_LEN, then set the
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE flag. For larger fallocate requests,
let mballoc.c normalize the request.

This fixes a problem where large requests were being split into
non-contiguous extents due to commit 556b27abf73: ext4: do not
normalize block requests from fallocate.

Testing: 
*) Checked that 8.x MB falloc'ed files are still laid down next to
each other (contiguously).
*) Checked that the maximum size extent (127.9MB) is allocated as 1
extent.
*) Checked that a 1GB file is somewhat contiguous (often 5-6
non-contiguous extents now).
*) Checked that a 120MB file can still be falloc'ed even if there are
no single extents large enough to hold it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Harm <gharm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Greg Harm 2011-10-31 18:41:47 -04:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 4af8350899
commit 3c6fe77017
1 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -4337,10 +4337,16 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
trace_ext4_fallocate_exit(inode, offset, max_blocks, ret);
return ret;
}
flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNINIT_EXT |
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE;
flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNINIT_EXT;
if (mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE)
flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_KEEP_SIZE;
/*
* Don't normalize the request if it can fit in one extent so
* that it doesn't get unnecessarily split into multiple
* extents.
*/
if (len <= EXT_UNINIT_MAX_LEN << blkbits)
flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE;
retry:
while (ret >= 0 && ret < max_blocks) {
map.m_lblk = map.m_lblk + ret;