linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC]Ext4: journal credits reservation fixes for DIO, fallocate and delalloc writepages

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:18:02 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Shehjar Tikoo <shehjart@....unsw.edu.au>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC]Ext4: journal credits reservation fixes for DIO,
	fallocate and delalloc writepages

On Jul 22, 2008  17:51 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> + * Calulate the total number of credits to reserve to fit
> + * the modification of @num pages into a single transaction
> + */
> +int ext4_writepages_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int num)
> +{
> +	int bpp = ext4_journal_blocks_per_page(inode);
> +	int nrblocks = num * bpp;
> +
> +	if (!EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)
> +		return ext4_writepages_trans_blocks_old(inode, nrblocks);

This should be "if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT_EXTENTS_FL))", and
we should probably make it "unlikely()" since we expect most new files
in an ext4 filesystem are extent mapped.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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