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authorRitesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>2023-07-16 19:33:34 +0530
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2023-08-05 08:18:04 -0400
commit772c9f691dcf3a487f29ddb90a5a15c78d7328e1 (patch)
treef8d6c8f7ea464a9b36accc116529480cd47210c7 /fs/ext4/mballoc.c
parente15e117bbbe18258a5ad506bbf6c58ff129c9576 (diff)
ext4: don't use CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN for non-regular files
Using CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN only make sense for regular files, as for non-regular files we never normalize the allocation request length i.e. goal len is same as original length (ac_g_ex.fe_len == ac_o_ex.fe_len). Hence there is no scope of trimming the goal length to make it satisfy original request len. Thus this patch avoids using CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN criteria for non-regular files request. Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes: 33122aa930f1 ("ext4: Add allocation criteria 1.5 (CR1_5)") Reported-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Tested-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2a694c748ff8b8c4b416995a24f06f07b55047a8.1689516047.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/mballoc.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/mballoc.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index b89b5f0816e7..3d5b0b71d7f5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -966,7 +966,18 @@ static void ext4_mb_choose_next_group_goal_fast(struct ext4_allocation_context *
}
}
- *new_cr = CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN;
+ /*
+ * CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN works based on the concept that we have
+ * a larger normalized goal len request which can be trimmed to
+ * a smaller goal len such that it can still satisfy original
+ * request len. However, allocation request for non-regular
+ * files never gets normalized.
+ * See function ext4_mb_normalize_request() (EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA).
+ */
+ if (ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA)
+ *new_cr = CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN;
+ else
+ *new_cr = CR_GOAL_LEN_SLOW;
}
/*