ext4: Use inode preallocation with -o noextents
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:27:31 +0000 (19:27 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:27:31 +0000 (19:27 -0400)
commit7061eba75ceb0835ba61e7cbd757a6f9c1e4af92
tree9c70df3078c0543573a9f38bb60c6b0f54608c7a
parent6afd670713c9e7d5c5550e379dfedca8ffab4c90
ext4: Use inode preallocation with -o noextents

When mballoc is enabled, block allocation for old block-based
files are allocated using mballoc allocator instead of old
block-based allocator. The old ext3 block reservation is turned
off when mballoc is turned on.

However, the in-core preallocation is not enabled for block-based/
non-extent based file block allocation. This result in performance
regression, as now we don't have "reservation" ore in-core preallocation
to prevent interleaved fragmentation in multiple writes workload.

This patch fix this by enable per inode in-core preallocation
for non extent files when mballoc is used.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/balloc.c
fs/ext4/ext4.h
fs/ext4/extents.c
fs/ext4/inode.c
fs/ext4/xattr.c