From: Greg Harm <gharm@google.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:41:47 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: ext4: Don't normalize an falloc request if it can fit in 1 extent.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2-rc1~85^2~5
X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c6fe77017bc6ce489f231c35fed3220b6691836;p=pandora-kernel.git

ext4: Don't normalize an falloc request if it can fit in 1 extent.

If an fallocate request fits in EXT_UNINIT_MAX_LEN, then set the
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE flag. For larger fallocate requests,
let mballoc.c normalize the request.

This fixes a problem where large requests were being split into
non-contiguous extents due to commit 556b27abf73: ext4: do not
normalize block requests from fallocate.

Testing:
*) Checked that 8.x MB falloc'ed files are still laid down next to
each other (contiguously).
*) Checked that the maximum size extent (127.9MB) is allocated as 1
extent.
*) Checked that a 1GB file is somewhat contiguous (often 5-6
non-contiguous extents now).
*) Checked that a 120MB file can still be falloc'ed even if there are
no single extents large enough to hold it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Harm <gharm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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