2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ (cherry picked from commit 71780577306fd1e76c7a92e3b308db624d03adb9) The hueristic was designed to avoid using locality group preallocation when writing the last segment of a closed file. Fix it by move setting size to the maximum of size and isize until after we check whether size == isize. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -4162,7 +4162,6 @@ static void ext4_mb_group_or_file(struct size = ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical + ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len; isize = (i_size_read(ac->ac_inode) + ac->ac_sb->s_blocksize - 1) >> bsbits; - size = max(size, isize); if ((size == isize) && !ext4_fs_is_busy(sbi) && @@ -4172,6 +4171,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_group_or_file(struct } /* don't use group allocation for large files */ + size = max(size, isize); if (size >= sbi->s_mb_stream_request) { ac->ac_flags |= EXT4_MB_STREAM_ALLOC; return; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/