2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ (cherry picked from commit 4ba74d00a20256e22f159cb288ff34b587608917) The logic around sbi->s_mb_last_group and sbi->s_mb_last_start was all screwed up. These fields were getting unconditionally all the time, set even when stream allocation had not taken place, and if they were being used when the file was smaller than s_mb_stream_request, which is when the allocation should _not_ be doing stream allocation. Fix this by determining whether or not we stream allocation should take place once, in ext4_mb_group_or_file(), and setting a flag which gets used in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() and ext4_mb_use_best_found(). This simplifies the code and assures that we are consistently using (or not using) the stream allocation logic. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 ++ fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 23 ++++++++++------------- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ typedef unsigned int ext4_group_t; #define EXT4_MB_HINT_TRY_GOAL 512 /* blocks already pre-reserved by delayed allocation */ #define EXT4_MB_DELALLOC_RESERVED 1024 +/* We are doing stream allocation */ +#define EXT4_MB_STREAM_ALLOC 2048 struct ext4_allocation_request { --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -1360,7 +1360,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_use_best_found(struc ac->alloc_semp = e4b->alloc_semp; e4b->alloc_semp = NULL; /* store last allocated for subsequent stream allocation */ - if ((ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA)) { + if (ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_STREAM_ALLOC) { spin_lock(&sbi->s_md_lock); sbi->s_mb_last_group = ac->ac_f_ex.fe_group; sbi->s_mb_last_start = ac->ac_f_ex.fe_start; @@ -1938,7 +1938,6 @@ ext4_mb_regular_allocator(struct ext4_al struct ext4_sb_info *sbi; struct super_block *sb; struct ext4_buddy e4b; - loff_t size, isize; sb = ac->ac_sb; sbi = EXT4_SB(sb); @@ -1974,20 +1973,16 @@ ext4_mb_regular_allocator(struct ext4_al } bsbits = ac->ac_sb->s_blocksize_bits; - /* if stream allocation is enabled, use global goal */ - size = ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical + ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len; - isize = i_size_read(ac->ac_inode) >> bsbits; - if (size < isize) - size = isize; - if (size < sbi->s_mb_stream_request && - (ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA)) { + /* if stream allocation is enabled, use global goal */ + if (ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_STREAM_ALLOC) { /* TBD: may be hot point */ spin_lock(&sbi->s_md_lock); ac->ac_g_ex.fe_group = sbi->s_mb_last_group; ac->ac_g_ex.fe_start = sbi->s_mb_last_start; spin_unlock(&sbi->s_md_lock); } + /* Let's just scan groups to find more-less suitable blocks */ cr = ac->ac_2order ? 0 : 1; /* @@ -4155,16 +4150,18 @@ static void ext4_mb_group_or_file(struct if (!(ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA)) return; + if (unlikely(ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_GOAL_ONLY)) + return; + size = ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical + ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len; isize = i_size_read(ac->ac_inode) >> bsbits; size = max(size, isize); /* don't use group allocation for large files */ - if (size >= sbi->s_mb_stream_request) - return; - - if (unlikely(ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_GOAL_ONLY)) + if (size >= sbi->s_mb_stream_request) { + ac->ac_flags |= EXT4_MB_STREAM_ALLOC; return; + } BUG_ON(ac->ac_lg != NULL); /* -- 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/