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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 13 |
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; } /* |